Usage limits
The daily and lifetime caps that apply to indexing, search, Ask, and MCP.
Last verified: 30 July 2026
Remly does not charge per search or per result, but it is not unmetered either. These are the caps that apply.
Daily caps
| Cap | Limit | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | 200 per day | Search in the web app and the Mac popover |
| Ask questions | 100 per day | Ask, web and app |
| Premium-model answers | 20 per day | A subset of the 100 – a premium answer uses one of each |
MCP get_item reads | 3,000 per day | The MCP get_item tool |
| Local indexing | 10,000 chunks per day | Local embedding and image text extraction on the Mac app |
Search and Ask counters are nominal daily limits, enforced best-effort under concurrency. Several requests landing at the same moment can push you slightly past the number before the counter catches up. Do not read this as slack in the other caps – indexing and get_item caps are enforced directly.
Indexing caps
| Cap | Limit | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Indexed documents | 100,000 lifetime | Per organization |
| Initial backfill chunks | 250,000 | Per user, for the first pass over a source |
Scheduled cloud indexing is governed by organization-level document and chunk ceilings rather than the daily local-indexing cap.
Context Layer
These apply to the get_context MCP tool, where it is enabled:
| Parameter | Range | Default |
|---|---|---|
task | Up to 500 characters | – |
limit | 1–25 documents | 12 |
maxTokens | 200–8,000 | 2,000 |
freshnessDays | Up to 3,650 | – |
The evidence you get back is often smaller than limit implies. Candidates are dropped by access filtering, quality filtering, and the token budget.
What happens when you hit a cap
- Search or Ask – further requests are refused until the counter resets in the next daily window. Nothing is lost; your indexed content and conversations are untouched.
- Local indexing – indexing pauses and resumes in the next window. It does not fail or skip files permanently; a large first index of a big folder can therefore span more than one day.
get_itemover MCP – the tool starts refusing reads.searchcontinues to work until its own cap is reached.- Indexed document ceiling – new documents stop being indexed. Existing content stays searchable. Narrow a connector's selection or disconnect a source to free room.
Caps reset on a daily window, not at a time you choose.
What is not capped
The number of sources you connect, the number of paired devices, the number of saved Ask conversations, and re-running a search you already ran (each run counts once against the search cap).