Cost and Limits
Data Chat bills what the question actually cost to answer, and caps how far one question can go.
Data Chat does not charge a flat price per question. It measures what the answer actually cost to produce and converts that into wallet tokens, so a cheap question is cheap.
Why billing works this way
Section titled “Why billing works this way”A flat price per question would be simpler to explain and worse for you.
Answers are not the same size. A one-table lookup and a six-query analysis across a year of runs differ by more than fifty times in real cost. Charging both the same means light users subsidise heavy ones.
It also matters for follow-ups. A second question in a warm thread costs a fraction of the first, because the context is already loaded. Cost-passthrough passes that saving to you: the follow-up bills as a fraction. Under a flat price it would cost the same as the first question, and the saving would quietly become margin.
Roughly what a question costs
Section titled “Roughly what a question costs”| Question | Typical cost |
|---|---|
| A simple lookup — “how many campaigns do I have?” | a few tokens |
| A normal analysis — “which keywords fell last month?” | around twenty tokens |
| A heavy cohort analysis across many runs | a couple of hundred tokens |
Exact figures depend on how much data the question has to read. The tokens spent appear against the conversation, so a thread’s cost is never a surprise at the end of the month.
Limits on a single question
Section titled “Limits on a single question”Every question is bounded, so one query cannot run away with your wallet or the database:
| Limit | What it does |
|---|---|
| Queries per question | How many SQL steps one answer may take — enough to explore the schema and answer, not enough to wander |
| Result bytes per query | Caps how much data a single query returns; a huge result is truncated rather than loaded whole |
| Answer length | Caps the written answer, so a reply stays readable |
| Monthly workspace ceiling | A backstop on total spend per organization per month, checked before an answer runs |
The monthly ceiling stops a runaway rather than billing you for one — if it is reached, Data Chat stops answering until the next month rather than presenting an invoice you did not expect.
Data Chat is a plan feature. If your workspace is not entitled, the tool shows what it does rather than answering, and the upgrade path is in Manage subscription.
Tokens come from the same wallet as every other tool, so a heavy analysis month and a heavy tracking month draw on the same balance. See Token usage for where they went.