# AI allowance > The AI allowance is the monthly amount of AI usage included in your organization's price. Every answer from the AI assistant and every receipt recognition uses part of it, and the allowance grows with every seat you book. - Page: https://www.ciro-noise.de/glossar/ki-guthaben - Deutsche Fassung: https://www.ciro-noise.de/glossar/ki-guthaben.md Many features in CIRO NOISE use AI: the AI assistant that answers questions about your data, receipt recognition, summaries and image generation. Every one of those calls costs computing time. So that you don't pay extra for it, each organization has a monthly AI allowance included in the price. You can see usage in two places. Under Organization › Plan & billing, a bar shows this month's AI requests against your allowance. The AI usage page breaks down which feature used how much and shows the last few months. ## How the AI allowance works in CIRO NOISE The allowance is tied to your organization's seats: every seat, including each of the two free ones, adds a fixed share, and the allowance grows with every seat you book. How much a single request uses depends on its size, because a long question involving a lot of data needs more computing time than a short one. The allowance applies per calendar month and starts fresh on the first. Whatever a month doesn't use does not carry over. Work the system does on its own doesn't count against your allowance. That includes summarizing a meeting that came in, sorting a new support request automatically and preparing content for search in the knowledge base. These calls still show up on the AI usage page, but they never block anything, because nobody triggered them on purpose. ## An everyday example A trades business with five seats has an allowance of around 2,000 AI requests a month. The bookkeeper uploads about 150 receipts each month and lets the AI read them, and the owner asks the AI assistant every morning what's on his plate. By mid-month the bar under Plan & billing shows about a third used, so the allowance easily lasts until the end of the month. ## When the allowance runs out Once the AI allowance is used up, AI features pause until the first of the next month. Everything else keeps working: you can enter receipts by hand, create tasks and answer requests, and all your data stays readable. If you regularly need more, book additional seats or talk to us about a higher limit. There is also a short per-minute limit. It stops a faulty script from burning through the monthly allowance in a few minutes. The AI processes your data in data centers in the EU, and your content does not train AI models. If you don't want AI at all, switch it off under Organization › AI features and keep using CIRO NOISE in full. ## Frequently asked questions about AI allowance ### How much AI usage is included in CIRO NOISE? The CIRO NOISE AI allowance is included in the price and grows with your seats: every seat, including each of the two free ones, adds a fixed share for the month. You can see how much of it has been used under Plan & billing. ### What happens when the AI allowance runs out? CIRO NOISE pauses its AI features until the first of the next month. Every other feature keeps working, and your data stays fully readable. ### Where can I see how much of my AI allowance I have used? CIRO NOISE shows AI allowance usage as a bar under Organization › Plan & billing. The AI usage page breaks it down by feature and month. ### Does the AI allowance cost extra? No. The AI allowance is included in the CIRO NOISE price, including on the two free seats. There is no pay-per-use billing. ## Related terms - [Isa](https://www.ciro-noise.de/en/glossary/isa.md) - [Receipt](https://www.ciro-noise.de/en/glossary/receipt.md) - [Subscription](https://www.ciro-noise.de/en/glossary/subscription.md) See the feature: https://www.ciro-noise.de/en/pricing.md ## CIRO NOISE at a glance - CIRO NOISE is a workspace for small businesses and teams of up to about 50 people: wiki, tasks, customer requests, finance with quotes and invoices, customers (CRM), meetings, knowledge with AI, social media, password vault, and time tracking behind one login. - Price: the first 2 seats are free, with every feature. Each additional seat costs €25 per month plus VAT. No credit card to start. - Privacy: servers and AI run in EU data centers, content never trains AI models, and permissions apply per person and feature. - AI connection: Claude and other AI assistants connect through MCP, the open standard for AI tools, with exactly the permissions of the person. - Provider: CIRO GmbH, Eching, Germany. Contact: hello@ciro.gmbh, phone +49 89 24 88 31 22.