Cheat sheet: Free plans and pay-per-use
The 29 terms of this lesson, part by part, with the French word a team in France would use.
1. Every free plan has limits
- Free planoffre gratuite
- a free level of an online service, with limits on how much you can use it.
- Quotaquota
- a limit on how much you can use a service in a given time, such as a number of map views per day.
- Paid planoffre payante
- a level of a service that you pay for each month, with higher limits and usually permission for business use.
- Commercial useusage commercial
- using a service for a business, such as a tool for a company's clients, which many free plans forbid.
- Terms of serviceconditions d'utilisation
- the rules a service sets for its use, including its limits and prices, which it can change.
- VercelVercel
- a hosting service for websites, whose free plan is for personal projects that earn no money.
2. What happens at the limit
- Paid planoffre payante
- a level of a service that you pay for each month, with higher limits and usually permission for business use.
- SupabaseSupabase
- an online service that rents you a ready-made back end, with a database, logins and file storage.
- FirebaseFirebase
- a Google service that rents you a ready-made back end, with a database, logins and file storage.
- Spending limitplafond de dépenses
- a maximum amount that a service may charge you each month, which you set in your account.
- Budget alertalerte de budget
- an email that a service sends when your spending passes an amount you chose, which warns you but stops nothing.
- Shared mailboxboîte mail partagée
- a company email address that several people can read, such as an address for the whole web team.
3. One use, times the number of uses
- Pay-per-usepaiement à l'usage
- a price that grows with each use of a service, such as each AI answer, map view or text message sent.
- Cost per usecoût unitaire
- what one use of a service costs, such as about one cent for one AI answer.
- Viralviral
- describes something that people share so fast that its audience grows far beyond what was planned.
- Botbot, robot
- a program that visits sites or calls services by itself, sometimes thousands of times an hour.
- Modelmodèle
- the AI inside an agent that reads text and writes a reply, such as Gemini or Claude.
- Tokenjeton, token
- a small piece of text, often part of a word, which a model reads and writes one at a time.
4. Limits before launch
- Rate limitlimite de requêtes, rate limit
- a maximum number of requests allowed in a given time, such as 100 per hour for each user.
- Spending limitplafond de dépenses
- a maximum amount that a service may charge you each month, which you set in your account.
- Budget alertalerte de budget
- an email that a service sends when your spending passes an amount you chose, which warns you but stops nothing.
- Fallbacksolution de repli
- what a feature shows or does when its service is stopped or a limit is reached, such as a short message.
- Modelmodèle
- the AI inside an agent that reads text and writes a reply, such as Gemini or Claude.
5. What to ask
- Free planoffre gratuite
- a free level of an online service, with limits on how much you can use it.
- Paid planoffre payante
- a level of a service that you pay for each month, with higher limits and usually permission for business use.
- Pay-per-usepaiement à l'usage
- a price that grows with each use of a service, such as each AI answer, map view or text message sent.
- Cost per usecoût unitaire
- what one use of a service costs, such as about one cent for one AI answer.
- Spending limitplafond de dépenses
- a maximum amount that a service may charge you each month, which you set in your account.
- Rate limitlimite de requêtes, rate limit
- a maximum number of requests allowed in a given time, such as 100 per hour for each user.
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