A: Hi Ahmed,

Thanks for your question.

Unlimited AI generations means that you do not have any overall number limit on number of AI generations that you use during your usage of Paperguide. However, to ensure that all users can enjoy a smooth and reliable experience, we have implemented rate limiting for AI generations.

The AI call rate limit is for AI Research assistant tools which includes the prompts for literature review, data extraction requests, chat with papers/pdfs, AI summary and AI search features. AI writer does not have any such restrictions for AI generations (depending on your subscription plan). You can generate AI writing and editing suggestions in the writer tool without any AI call restrictions.

To elaborate on AI call limit, One AI response is considered as AI call. For example if you are ask literature review tool to find relevant papers on climate change, it will respond with a summary based on top relevant papers and gives a list of papers along with insights. It will be considered as one AI call. Even if u add columns to the response (to extract summary, methodology or any custom information), it will still be a single AI call. For AI search and chat with papers, when you further probe on the initial response, the subsequent response will be considered as a new AI call. So if you have 50 AI calls / 3 hours limit, you would need to wait for new Ai generations if you already have used 50 calls within a 3 hour window. After the window, the rate limit resets and you can continue using AI generations

Regarding BYOK feature, we currently do not have it. As we see that different models are good at different AI use cases and the strength of these models change as they evolve, we wanted to abstract it from users to avoid the challenge of managing the selection of models. Having said that, if we see that more users are requesting for BYOK, we would take it up in our roadmap