Usage & limits
What consumes your token allowance, what doesn't, and what happens when you run out.
Tokens are for replies
Your plan includes a monthly allowance of tokens, the unit AI text generation is measured in. Tokens are consumed when you:
- generate a reply draft in the inbox;
- refine a draft with Warmer, Shorter, More formal, or your own instruction;
- generate a reply in the AI Studio playground;
- generate a daily brief or a report narrative;
- learn your reply voice from your published replies;
- suggest dimensions for the Business Health Radar.
Tokens are not consumed by the automatic analysis of your reviews — the sentiment, topics and urgency on each individual review. ReviewHive funds that work, up to your plan's analysis ceiling.
The meter at the top of AI Studio shows how much of this month's allowance you have used, and the allowance resets each month.
What each plan includes
| | Basic (free) | Pro | Agencies | |---|---|---|---| | Tokens per month | 100,000 | 5,000,000 | 25,000,000 | | Reviews analyzed by the AI Analyst | 100 | 5,000 | Unlimited |
Full comparison in Plans.
Running out
Out of tokens. The generate button is replaced by a panel telling you the allowance is spent and the date it comes back, so you can decide whether to wait or upgrade. Everything else keeps working: reviews keep syncing, analysis keeps running, and you can still write and post replies yourself.
At the analysis ceiling. New reviews stop being analyzed. They still arrive in your inbox with their rating, text and reply state, but they have no AI panel and do not appear under the AI filters. Upgrading resumes analysis.
Using less
- Generate once and edit by hand, rather than refining five times.
- Set Length to Short in AI Studio, since shorter drafts cost less.
- Write good custom instructions. A draft that comes out right first time is the cheapest one.
- Use the playground to tune your settings on one review instead of discovering the problem across twenty.