generated: '2026-09-19' method: searched source: https://thehiveryiq.com/pricing/ docs: - https://thehiveryiq.com/pricing/ - https://thehiveryiq.com/agents - https://receipts.thehiveryiq.com/llms.txt derived_from: openapi/thehiveryiq-com-hivemorph-openapi.yml probed: url: https://receipts.thehiveryiq.com/v1/receipt/free method: POST status: 201 fetched: '2026-09-19' headers_observed: - 'content-type: application/json' body_quota_fields: free_tier.remaining_today: 99 free_tier.daily_limit: 100 limit_count: 4 summary: 'Hive publishes quotas rather than request-rate ceilings: a per-IP daily cap on free receipts (429 on exhaustion), per-agent and per-IP free-call allowances on paid paths (402 on exhaustion), and a monthly free allowance on compliance ingest. No RateLimit-*, X-RateLimit-* or Retry-After header was observed on the live 201; the remaining quota travels in the response body. No per-key or per-tenant request rate is documented for paid plans; the security page itself says rate limiting "needs tested coverage across public demos, authenticated routes and direct service origins".' rate_limits: - name: Free receipts scope: per-ip window: 1 day (UTC) limit: 100 metric: receipts burst: null applies_to: - POST /v1/receipt/free - POST /v1/github/sign-diff (shares the same limiter per its description) status_on_exhaustion: 429 headers: [] body_fields: - free_tier.remaining_today - free_tier.daily_limit source: https://thehiveryiq.com/pricing/ ("100 receipts / IP / day, then 429") and the operation description ("rate-limited to 100/ip/day") observed: 201 response body remaining_today 99 / daily_limit 100 after one call domains: - receipts.thehiveryiq.com - name: Free intent calls scope: per-agent window: lifetime limit: 25 metric: calls applies_to: - POST /v1/rosetta/normalize - POST /v1/prospector/score status_on_exhaustion: 402 note: '"Intent and scoring calls are free for your first 25. After that, they settle over x402-USDC on Base." (/agents)' domains: - receipts.thehiveryiq.com - name: Designer chat free turns scope: per-ip window: 1 day (UTC) limit: 2 metric: turns applies_to: - POST /v1/designer/chat status_on_exhaustion: 402 note: '"free for the first 2 turns per ip per utc day (subject to global $2 daily ceiling). after the free quota the route returns 402 with x402 envelope"; GET /v1/designer/quota exposes the days state' domains: - receipts.thehiveryiq.com - name: HiveComply free events scope: per-account window: 1 month limit: 1000 metric: events applies_to: - POST /v1/hivecomply/event/ingest - POST /v1/mcp/hivecomply (hivecomply_event_ingest tool) status_on_exhaustion: 402 source: https://receipts.thehiveryiq.com/v1/agent/tools ("Free up to 1K events/mo") domains: - receipts.thehiveryiq.com payment_metered: note: 'Beyond the free allowances, throughput is bounded by payment rather than by a rate limit: each metered call is a 402 -> pay -> retry cycle with a 5-minute access token per path. The gateway MCP card adds "first call free, every 6th paid call is free". HiveCompute publishes no rate limit; its 402 envelope carries maxTimeoutSeconds 300.' gaps: - No per-plan request-rate limits for Starter..Enterprise (only monthly receipt allowances). - No rate-limit response headers. - No documented 429 body shape.