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Integrating AI / LLMs into English-Corpora.org FAQ (schedule / cost)


Note that more topics will be added to this page as time goes on

1. When will the new AI/LLM features be available?

In mid-August 2025.

2. How will the "AI credits" work?

First, it is important to realize that every time we send an "API call" to an LLM (GPT, Gemini, Claude, etc), the LLM charges us for that access. Imagine that each of the 75,000 monthly users do just 12-15 LLM-based searches each month (and some people will do many more than that). That would be more than one million API calls to the LLMs, and this would cost us thousands (or tens of thousands) of dollars each month. As you can imagine, it's not realistic for us to pay that cost by ourselves; the corpora would cease to function within a few months.

So the plan is that most people will purchase "AI credits" in advance -- for as little as $5.00. Each time they do an AI/LLM-based query, it will deduct $0.03 or $0.04 from their credits (depending on the type of search and how much data is sent to and received from the LLM). So they will have anywhere from 125 to 170 API-based queries (if they have paid $5.00) before they need to purchase more credits. And the corpus interface will let them know at all times how many credits they have left. Payment will be made by credit card at PayPal, as is done currently for the premium licenses (with the option of payment by AliPay or WeChatPay for users from China).

It will also be possible for people to use their own personal API key, so that they are charged directly (rather than having it go through the corpus).

Note that these AI credits will be separate from (individual) premium licenses. In other words, if you already have a premium license, you would still need to purchase the "AI credits". But you can also buy the AI credits even if you don't have a premium license -- they are two completely separate things.

And most importantly, the AI features (via API access to the LLMs) are completely optional. If you want to keep using the corpora as you have in the past (without the insights from AI/LLMs), that would be perfectly fine.

3. What about users of academic licenses?

Academic licenses are "university-wide"; they include all of the users at a university. One (non-optimal) solution is to have individual users pay for their own AI credits. But a better option is to have people at a university use a university-wide API key. See how this will work from the point of view of the university and the end users.