Limits at a glance
Every number that bounds what Pythe does: plans, employees, steps, budgets, caps, rate limits and sizes. One table, each linked to where it is explained.
Updated 2026-10-13
Plan limits
| Free | Base | Premium | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI employees | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| AI credits | 25 once | 100 a month | 500 a month |
| Computer time | 60 minutes | 15 hours a month | 60 hours a month |
| Running at once | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Gmail sends a day | 0 | 50 | 200 |
| Parts a long job may take | 2 | 4 | 4 |
The product
| What | Limit | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Stages | 7 | The seven stages |
| Tracks | 7 | Tracks and milestones |
| AI employee roles | 6 | Roles |
| Stages written by a plan build | 2 (your stage and the next) | How the plan is built |
| Graduation prompt appears at | 80% of the stage’s milestones complete | The seven stages |
| Weekly review questions | 3 to 7 | Weekly review |
| Automatic weekly reviews | One per 6 days at most | Weekly review |
| Research budget | 140 seconds | Market research |
Agents
| What | Limit | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Pytheus turns | Chat 2 · Think 12 · Computer 14 | Meet Pytheus |
| Employee step budget | 14 to 22 by kind of job; 24 for a tracked task; 8 for a simple one-file job | How employees do a job |
| Turns in each further part of a long job | 14 | Runs |
| Run lease / heartbeat | 120 seconds / 20 seconds | Runs |
| Automatic tries per call | A call that failed twice with the same arguments is not run a third time | Quality controls |
| Provider outage retries | After 1, 3 then 10 minutes | Runs |
| A run is failed as too old after | 6 hours | Runs |
| Self-reviews per run | 1 | Quality controls |
| Review rounds on a tracked task | 2 by default; 0 to 4 | Tracked tasks |
| Task budget default | 15% of monthly credits, between 5 and 50 | Tracked tasks |
| Parallel helpers | 2 to 4 per run_in_parallel | Quality controls |
| Hand-off depth / per turn / live per request | 2 / 4 / 8 | Group chats and hand-offs |
| Custom tools per workspace | 30 | Tools reference |
| Computer idle before it sleeps | 10 minutes | How agent computers work |
| Memory entry length | 1,200 characters | Shared memory |
MCP and REST
| What | Limit |
|---|---|
| MCP tools | 23 |
| REST gateway tools | 11 |
| Calls per minute per key | 60 |
| API key expiry | 1 to 365 days, or never. Default 90. |
assign_task brief | At least 8 characters |
list_runs limit | 1 to 30 (default 15) |
search_library limit | 1 to 25 (default 10) |
list_memory limit | 1 to 50 (default 20) |
list_approvals | Up to 25, each preview field clipped to 300 characters |
get_run recent steps / files / Library items | 8 / 10 / 10 |
| Polling hints | 20 seconds for runs; 15 for a plan build |
Sizes
| What | Limit |
|---|---|
| Hand-off title / brief | 200 / 6,000 characters |
| Canvas image on a card | Downscaled to stay under 256 KB |
| Slack post | 3,900 characters |
| Notion page content | 60,000 characters |
| Email body | 20,000 characters |