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The two products are bought separately, and your workspace holds one set of limits between them. An API Management tier sets your request quota, key allowance and retention. A Compute plan sets the Compute values, and also sets retention and team members when you have no paid API tier. Read the API Management table by the tier you pay for, and the Compute tables by your Compute plan: Starter, Pro, or Business. The two products’ plan names are unrelated, so a Compute Pro plan says nothing about your API tier.

API management

API Management is sold as a free tier, seven fixed Pro tiers, and Enterprise. The tier you’re on sets your monthly request quota, your key allowance, and how long logs are kept. Only valid requests count against the quota. A verification rejected for a bad key, an exhausted rate limit, or any other reason isn’t billed, so a key under attack doesn’t consume the quota you bought. Passing the quota means moving to a higher tier, and you will receive an email when you do so. The API keys column is the allowance your plan includes. Unlimited keyspaces are included on every tier. Enterprise covers custom quotas, IP allow listing, a dedicated Slack channel, annual contracts and SLAs.

Logs

A paid API tier owns both retention values, from the table above, whatever Compute plan you hold. Only when you have no paid API tier does your Compute plan set them instead: Log drains aren’t included on any plan today. Ask support@unkey.com if you need one.

Compute

These rows apply once you have a Compute plan. Workspace rows measure what your running deployments have allocated. Per-instance rows cap what a single instance can request. At a Compute limit, scale down or remove a deployment, or move to a plan with a higher ceiling. For a higher ceiling on the plan you already hold, ask support@unkey.com. “Unlimited” custom domains is a very high cap that exists to stop abuse, not a priced feature.
Last modified on September 29, 2026