Usage limit best practices
Your allowance covers the cost of hosted AI requests, not a number of messages. The model, the length of the chat and how much of your project Ziva reads all affect usage. Check Rate Limits in your account or Settings > Account > Usage in Ziva for your balance.
Check a reply's cost
Click the cost or [+] below a reply to open Cost breakdown. Click again to close it.
It separates model replies from paid operations, such as screenshot analysis, image generation and subagents, and shows Total charged. A Free model's replies can be free while its operations use credits. External-provider usage is separate; only Ziva charges appear here.
Limits by plan
Limits are measured in USD of model usage.
| Plan | Weekly Limit | Monthly Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Ziva Hobby | $3 | $3 to start |
| Ziva Basic | $20 | $60 |
| Ziva Pro | $50 | $150 |
| Ziva Ultra | $200 | $600 |
Paid plans reset monthly from the day your subscription started, and weekly every Monday at 5 PM in your timezone. Upgrading starts a new billing period that day with fresh weekly and monthly limits: you pay the new plan's price minus credit for unused time on your old plan, and future renewals count from the day you upgraded. Ziva Hobby includes $3 of AI usage to start. In Settings > Account > Usage, Credit remaining shows your available included usage and any additional credit together. Included usage is spent first. Open Redeem and manage codes to see your balances or redeem a code. Individual top-ups and redeemed codes are not listed in Settings.
On Pro and Ultra, open https://ziva.sh/account and click Buy credit to add $5-$5,000 of usage credit. Pay $100 for $100 of credit, with no top-up fee. Purchased credit never expires and is used after your included allowance.
Get more from your allowance
- One small feature per request. "Add left-right movement and jumping to my 2D player" works better than asking for the whole game.
- Start a new chat for a new topic. Long chats send earlier messages with every request.
- Use a cheaper model for small changes. Save the most capable models for hard problems.
- Keep changes focused. Ask Ziva to "only read or change the parts needed," so it doesn't read unrelated files.
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