Searching the public records and reports on this site is free, and always will be. You pay only when you put those records to work with AI — your prompt is how you use them.
Subscribers get a daily allowance on the standard open-weight lanes. Credits are available to everyone, and buy metered work on the frontier models — ~71,429 input tokens or ~18,182 output tokens per credit — with the estimate shown before anything runs.
Two things are free, permanently: the public records themselves, and the insights we build from them. Search runs across both.
You pay only for the third thing: putting your own prompt to the records through AI.
Every prompt reads records. Scope sets how many it reads per turn — Standard 20, Broad 40, or Broad+ 60. Depth sets how hard the engine works on what it read — Standard, Deeper, or Full working. Subscribers run the standard open-weight lanes off their daily allowance, no tokens counted; the heaviest depth and any frontier run meter on tokens instead, with the estimate shown before anything runs.
The terminal answers when you ask it. AskTribune+ will keep working when you don't — monitoring the record and carrying out work with tools, on schedules, issues and tasks you set. Still being landed; not available yet.
Tokens are never spent without a number in front of you. Full working — the heaviest depth — reasons across connections, not just breadth, so the terminal estimates first. The same confirm appears any time a prompt would run well past your usual.
At zero, nothing is deleted and nothing is locked. Searching the record, the Feed, the Archive and every citation stay free and open. Subscribers keep Scope and Depth on the daily open-weight allowance — only frontier runs pause until you top up.