# API limits

Our API is accessible through a [dedicated API plan](#dedicated-api-plan).

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The Ultimate plan is designed for personal and non-commercial use, with a lower limit. We recommend considering our dedicated API plan if you need to utilize our API for commercial purposes and require a higher limit.
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### Ultimate plan \[Old plan no longer supported]

#### Non-commercial use limit 

* No limit on the number of pages of PDF
* 100 PDF upload requests/month
* 1,000 chat requests/month
* Max. 50MB/PDF upload via [URL upload](https://api.pdf.ai/upload-pdf#upload-pdf-using-url), 4.5MB/PDF upload via [file upload](https://api.pdf.ai/upload-pdf#upload-pdf-using-file)
* Timeout of 60 seconds when uploading PDFs having a large number of pages e.g, 1000, 2000 pages, etc

### Dedicated API plan

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You can buy the plan that suits your actual API usage based on the following credits:\
2 credits/file upload, 1 credit/gpt-3.5-turbo or gpt-4o-mini message, 2 credits/gpt-4o message, 4 credits/gpt-4-turbo message.

* $50/mo for 1,000 credits (14-day free trial, risk-free to try it out)
* $112/mo for 2,500 credits
* $200/mo for 5,000 credits
* $350/mo for 10,000 credits
* Contact us for 10,000+ credits
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#### Usage limits:

* No limit on the number of pages of PDF
* Custom number of API credits/month (see above)
* 500 requests/minute
* Max. 100MB/PDF upload via [URL upload](https://api.pdf.ai/upload-pdf#upload-pdf-using-url), 4.5MB/PDF upload via [file upload](https://api.pdf.ai/upload-pdf#upload-pdf-using-file)
* Timeout of 60 seconds when uploading PDFs having a large number of pages, e.g, 1000, 2000 pages, etc