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1. Navigate to [**Billing and subscriptions > Usage**](https://cloud.elastic.co/billing/usage) in the {{ecloud}} Console
2. Look for line items where the **Billing dimension** is set to "Inference"

### Fair usage during free trial

Accounts in the free trial period are subject to token limits that are considered "fair usage". Access to some models may be paused temporarily if this limit is exceeded.

Check notice on line 80 in explore-analyze/elastic-inference/eis.md

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Elastic.WordChoice: Consider using 'can, might' instead of 'may', unless the term is in the UI.

Fair usage limits while account is in free trial:
- **Elastic Managed LLM:** 100 million input tokens in 24h or 5 million output tokens in 24h
- **ELSER**: 1 billion tokens in 24h

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Elastic.Acronyms: 'ELSER' has no definition.

## Rate limits

The service enforces rate limits on an ongoing basis. Exceeding a limit will result in HTTP 429 responses from the server until the sliding window moves on further and parts of the limit resets.
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We limit on both requests per minute and tokens per minute (whichever limit is reached first).

#### Ingest
#### Ingest

- 6,000 request per minute
- 6,000,000 tokens per minute
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