Usage Limits & Balance¶

To ensure fair access for all university members, uniGPT uses a token-based balance system.

For a comparison of available internal and external models, see Available Models.

How It Works¶

• Every user receives a token balance.
• Each prompt and response consumes tokens from your balance.
• Your balance resets every 4 hours.

Limits by User Group¶

• Employees: receive a balance of 5,000,000 tokens per 4-hour cycle.
• Students: due to rising provider costs, students now receive roughly 30% fewer credits per session than before. Employees keep the current limits.

Checking Your Balance¶

Click on your username in the chat interface to see your current balance.

Tips for Saving Tokens¶

1. Use internal models: They consume fewer resources and cost the university less (e.g., gemma-4-31B-it, DeepSeek V4 Flash, medgemma-1.5-4b-it, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B).
2. Avoid expensive models for simple tasks: Use gemma-4 instead of Claude Opus for basic questions.
3. Prefer Gemini if you need an external model — it is more cost-effective than Claude Opus or GPT-5.
4. Lower thinking level: For supported models, select a lower "thinking" setting to reduce token consumption.

Related Information¶

• See Available Models for model descriptions, privacy guidance, and relative input/output credit costs.

Balance Not Resetting?¶

If your balance appears stuck at zero after 4 hours, try logging out and logging back in. This usually resolves the issue.

API Limits¶

The API has limits that are separate from the chat balance and are managed independently. By default each API key allows 4 parallel requests. You can inspect your key's quotas via the /key/info endpoint (see API Access).