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What each plan includes

* Returned on the first 50 results when you’ve selected your institution in Consensus settings. An organization key uses the institution of the person who created it. Create a free account at consensus.app/sign-up or upgrade at consensus.app/pricing.

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How calls are counted

  • One call per 100 papers returned, rounded up, with a minimum of one call per request. A search that returns 150 papers uses 2 calls.
  • A Thread is charged by the amount of work the agent does. mode controls the effort: a deep run does more work than a pro run, so it costs more. A failed run costs nothing. While a Thread runs, its maximum possible cost counts as used. If that doesn’t fit under your plan’s limit, starting the Thread or adding a follow-up returns an error.
  • MCP and API share one monthly pool. Searches from your MCP connection and from your API key draw down the same allowance.
  • Usage resets on the 1st of each month.
“Papers per search” is the per-request ceiling. Searches that don’t set a page size still return the default of 20 papers, or your plan’s cap if it’s lower.

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Additional usage

Pro, Teams, and Deep can keep making calls past the included amount, up to the plan’s maximum, when the account has an active metered API subscription and additional usage is turned on. Additional usage is billed at $0.05 per call. Free plans stop at 30 calls.

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API key access

Any Consensus API key works on the MCP server. Include it as a Bearer token and the server applies the key owner’s plan: a personal key gets your plan, and an organization key gets that organization’s plan. Enterprise keys get custom limits.
See API key (Bearer token) for example client configs. Setting Consensus up behind an AI gateway, in Microsoft 365 Copilot for a whole tenant, or in Copilot Studio? See the Enterprise guides. For enterprise access, contact sales.

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API plans and access

The same plans on the REST API, with pagination and error details.