Limits on the hosted version
What the limits on the hosted version are on each plan, why they exist, and what happens when you reach one.
The hosted version has a Free plan and a Pro plan, and each has limits. Storage, database space and email all cost money, and everyone on the Free plan shares what the project can afford, so the Free limits keep any one workspace from using it up. Pro raises them. The plans are described in Plans and billing.
No limit locks a feature: every view and module is on both plans. If you would rather have no plan at all, run Plotra yourself: every limit can be raised or removed there.
The limits
| Limit | Free | Pro | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Projects per workspace | 10 | Unlimited | Database space |
| Storage per workspace | 1 GB | 50 GB | File storage. Counts uploaded files and version snapshots |
| One uploaded file | 25 MB | 100 MB | File storage, and the memory a server function has |
| Workspace members | 3, counting the owner | 25 | The collaboration server and email |
| Guests per shared project | 5 | 200 | The same. A guest is someone a project is shared with who is not a workspace member |
| Hosted AI | None | 1,500 credits a month | The model bill |
| Automatic versions per note | The latest 40 | The latest 40 | File storage. Versions you name are kept |
| Invitations and shares | 40 invitations and 60 shares an hour per person | The same | Keeps the email service from being used for spam |
| Sign-in attempts, comments, saved versions, web clips | Rate limited per person | The same | Keeps one script from tying up the server |
What has no limit
- Views and modules. Every feature is on both plans.
- The length of your notes, and the number of notes in a project.
- Export.
What happens when you reach one
- You get a message that says what the limit is.
- You can't add more of that thing until you free some room (delete a project you no longer need, or remove files and old versions) or the workspace moves to Pro.
- Nothing is deleted, and nothing becomes read-only. You can keep writing in the projects you have.
- Export always works. No limit ever stops you taking your work out.
The same holds for a workspace that goes from Pro back to Free while it is over the Free limits: it keeps everything, and only can't add more.
The AI agent
On your own API key, or on a model on your own computer, there is no AI allowance to run out of: what a run costs is between you and your provider. That is the only way to run the agent on Free, and it works on Pro too.
A Pro workspace also has hosted AI, with 1,500 credits each billing period. One credit is 1,000 input tokens, and output tokens count five times. When the credits are used up, hosted runs stop until the period renews; runs on your own key carry on. See Hosted AI and credits.
On both plans there is a rate limit per person, which protects the server and has nothing to do with money.
Running your own
A self-hosted Plotra has no plans. The limits are environment variables:
| Variable | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
QUOTA_PROJECTS | 10 | Projects per workspace |
QUOTA_STORAGE_MB | 1024 | Storage per workspace, in MB |
QUOTA_FILE_MB | 25 | Largest single upload, in MB |
Set one to 0 to remove that limit. See Self-hosting.
What it costs to run
What each service the hosted version runs on costs, and how Pro subscriptions and sponsorship pay for it, is on the Sponsor page of the Plotra site and in section 8 of the project plan.