# What is bot usage?

**URL:** <https://community.pickaxe.co/t/what-is-bot-usage/2629>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [November 20, 2024, 11:44am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/what-is-bot-usage/2629 "2024-11-20T11:44:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![jaydusold](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/jaydusold/32/904_2.png) [@jaydusold](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/jaydusold)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 11:44am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/what-is-bot-usage/2629/1 "2024-11-20T11:44:49Z")

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What constitutes a single bot usage?

Logging out? Typing “end”?

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**Author:** ![admin\_mike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/admin_mike/32/283_2.png) [@admin\_mike](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/admin_mike)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/what-is-bot-usage/2629/2 "2024-11-20T19:18:31Z")

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A use or credit (the two are the same) is every time the bot _generates a response_.

Currently, each bot response (regardless of length) is 1 use. It could say “hello” or it could recite the Gettysburg address, but it’s still 1 use.

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**Author:** ![jaydusold](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/jaydusold/32/904_2.png) [@jaydusold](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/jaydusold)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/what-is-bot-usage/2629/3 "2024-11-20T22:02:44Z")

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Got it.

So, how would I calculate usage for a free “trial” if there’s no way to know exactly how many times it will respond? The bot is “conversing” with a teen.

Sorry for all of the questions!! The bot has consistently performed as intended, and the pdf action is spot on.

I’m setting up the final aspects to launch.

Thanks for all of your support and guidance along the way!!

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**Author:** ![admin\_mike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/admin_mike/32/283_2.png) [@admin\_mike](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/admin_mike)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 11:08pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/what-is-bot-usage/2629/4 "2024-11-21T23:08:11Z")

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You should come up with a number of uses you think is sufficient for someone to trial the bot and then make that the number. If you think it takes 10 messages to get a good sense of the bot, then make the uses 10. This will be a subjective number.

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**Author:** ![jaydusold](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/jaydusold/32/904_2.png) [@jaydusold](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/jaydusold)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/what-is-bot-usage/2629/5 "2024-11-21T23:15:26Z")

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I think a single conversation is approximately 24 uses. Thanks.