Documentation Index
Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ascii.dev/llms.txt
Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
Billing model
Box charges in credit seconds — one second of a box in an active state costs one credit second.
1 dollar = 100,000 credit seconds (~27.8 hours of active box time per dollar.
What counts as billable
A box accumulates credit seconds while in any of these states:
provisioned · cloning · ready · idle · running
Not billed: archived (stopped), provisioning, archiving, error
Stop a box to pause billing:
Plans
Base subscription — $20/month
- 2,000,000 credit seconds included (~23 days of continuous uptime)
- Monthly refresh — unused seconds from your subscription do not carry over
- 7-day free trial included (see below)
- 2,000,000 additional credit seconds
- Carries over month-to-month — never expires
- Purchase as many packs as you need from the dashboard
Free trial
- 7 days from first sign-up
- Full access to box creation during the trial
- Trial limits apply (see table below)
- If the trial ends without a paid subscription, your account freezes until you complete checkout
Limits
Active box limits
| Plan | Max simultaneous boxes |
|---|
| Trial | 15 |
| Paid | 100 |
Creation rate limits
| Plan | Per minute | Per day |
|---|
| Trial | 20 | 50 |
| Paid | 20 | Unlimited |
Box TTL
| Setting | Value |
|---|
| Default TTL | 1 hour (3,600 seconds) |
| Maximum TTL | 30 days (2,592,000 seconds) |
box new --ttl 86400 # 24 hours
Check your usage
This shows your current credit balance, subscription status, active box count, and the limits that apply to your account.
