The limits
Beta limits, per account on askcalls.com
- calls
- 500
- A call is one transcript, with or without a recording. Deleting a call frees its place.
- transcription minutes a month
- 300
- Counted by audio length. Transcripts you upload ready-made don't count.
- of recording backups
- 2GB
- Encrypted and compressed on your device. With your own bucket or Google Drive, there is no limit from us.
- questions a day
- 50
- One question about one call. Resets at midnight.
- access tokens
- 5
- For the local agent, remote MCP and scripts. Each token has its own scopes.
- MCP fetches an hour, per token
- 60
- Ciphertext fetches over remote MCP. The local agent decrypts on your machine.
What counts.
Your own keys don't count.
Transcription and questions with your own provider key go straight from your device to the provider and don't count toward the limits.
Duplicates aren't transcribed twice.
The same call, even re-encoded, is recognised by its audio fingerprint and skipped before any minutes count.
Search and reading are always free.
They run on your device, so they have no limit.
At the limit, uploads pause until you delete calls or the month resets. Search and reading keep working.
Self-hosted.
Your limits.
AskCalls is open source under MIT. On your own instance the admin sets the limits, the providers and where data lives.
The self-hosting guide$ git clone https://github.com/Heknon/AskCalls.git $ cd AskCalls/docker $ docker compose up # then open http://localhost:3000
Pricing
questions.
What happens at the limit?
Uploads pause until you delete calls or the month resets. Search, reading, playback and export keep working, and nothing is deleted.
What about my own keys?
Transcription and questions with your own key don't count toward the limits. The key is encrypted with your keys and used only on your device.
Is self-hosting free?
Yes. The code is MIT-licensed. You pay only for the server, storage and providers you choose, or nothing if it all runs locally.