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Usage Limits
Ulvi Mammadov edited this page Oct 19, 2026
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Artemis records the tokens every request uses and estimates the cost from the prices you set per model. You can cap spending and tokens per day and per month, and limit how long a single answer may be.
- Open Settings → Usage limits.
- Under Quick setup, pick a preset: No spending limit, Light: $1/day, $20/month, Normal: $5/day, $50/month or Heavy: $20/day, $200/month.
- Or set each limit yourself under Spending (Spending today, Spending this month) and Tokens (Tokens today, Tokens this month): click a preset chip, Off, or type a custom value (for example
7.5dollars or750ktokens) and press Enter.
Each row shows how much you used and a progress bar once a limit is set. Artemis warns at 80% and stops answering when a limit is reached.
- Click the Usage button (chart icon) next to the message box for a quick summary.
- Open the full Usage window from the command palette (
Cmd/Ctrl+K→ Usage). It shows Total tokens, Prompt (in), Response (out), Requests and Est. cost for Last 24 hours, Last 7 days, Last 30 days or All time, filtered by project, with tokens per day for the last 14 days and breakdowns By model, By chat and By project. Reset stats clears the history.
Under Answers, set Max length of one answer (tokens): 2k, 4k, 8k, 16k, 32k or a custom number. Longer answers cost more; 8192 fits most replies.
| Setting | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Spending today / this month | Settings → Usage limits → Spending | Stops answering when the estimated cost reaches the limit |
| Tokens today / this month | Settings → Usage limits → Tokens | Stops answering when the token count reaches the limit |
| Max length of one answer (tokens) | Settings → Usage limits → Answers | Caps the tokens of a single reply |
| Models (with prices) | Settings → Providers → provider editor |
model-id | price in | price out in USD per 1M tokens; the basis for cost estimates |
These are automatic; there is no setting for them in the UI.
- Run budget. One run (all tool steps of one answer together) may use about 1.5M tokens. When a run goes over, Artemis summarizes the earlier steps and carries on (up to three times, and only while the run keeps changing things). Otherwise it stops with a notice; send a message to continue.
- Compaction. When a chat's history grows past about 40,000 tokens, the older part is summarized. You see "Conversation compacted: earlier messages were summarized to save tokens." and a collapsed Earlier conversation compacted (N messages summarized) entry in the chat that you can expand. If summarizing fails, old tool output is shortened instead.
- Screenshots. Only the newest screenshots are kept in the request; older ones are replaced with a short note.
- Costs are estimates from list prices. Cached input is billed at 10% of the input price; image and video generation is not included.
- Local models without a price count as free, so a token limit is the better cap for them.
- To save tokens, keep Switch heavy tools on only when needed and Switch connectors on only when needed on (Settings → Tools & safety), and turn the Tools pill off for plain-chat conversations.
- Only token counts are stored for usage, never message text. Incognito chats are not counted.
- A limit only works for models with a price. Add prices in the provider's Models box.
- When a limit is reached, every chat stops answering until the day or month rolls over or you raise the limit.
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