Chat

The workspace is the browser side of askr: https://heyaskr.ai/chat. Sign in, pick a model, type. No key, no setup. Every model in the picker draws on the balance you funded.

How a turn works

1. Pick a modelThe picker shows what one typical turn costs on each model (1,000 tokens in, 500 out), cheapest first. Switching keeps the conversation, so you can hand the same question to a second model.
2. Type and sendThe reply streams in. Stop it early and you pay for what was generated, nothing after.
3. See the costEach reply shows the credits it cost. The wallet lists every turn.

For a question that needs today's facts, turn on Search the web with the globe beside the paperclip: the model searches, reads and cites its sources, at 5 credits a search.

Ask opens a chooser: the plain chat, or one of ten skills built for a job, each a chat with its own screen (askr Skills). What you tell one model is there for the next, on the account, under your control (askr Mind); and a chat is a room of one, so it can hold threads, compare models side by side, and take people in (askr Collab).

To give the model a file, use the paperclip, or drop the file on the chat: pictures, PDFs, text and code, Word, PowerPoint and Excel, audio and video. Uploading is free; a file costs tokens only on the messages that carry it. A model that cannot read a file itself gets its words, so a PDF or a document works on every model. Attach files has the limits, which models take which kinds, and what each costs.

Limits

Messages kept

Up to the last 400 are sent to the model (20 on a model with a small window), oldest dropped first to fit

Message size

One message can fill the whole turn (48,000 characters on a model with a small window)

Conversation size

Up to the model's own context window, less room for the reply: about 1 million tokens on the largest models, such as Kimi K3, and never less than 120,000 characters. Older turns fall off, the chat continues

Reply length

Up to 32,768 tokens per turn, thinking included; less if the balance cannot cover it, or if the model itself takes less

Pace

20 turns per minute

Deadline

4 minutes per reply

The API allows longer replies and conversations. When you outgrow the workspace, the CLI is the next step and takes a minute to set up.

Speak instead of typing, and hear the reply

A mic sits beside the paperclip in the composer. Tap it to listen and tap again to stop; sending stops it too. What you say is appended after what you typed, with the words still being guessed shown as they come and settled as you go, and a pause to think does not end the session. Four bars beside the mic move with your voice while it listens. Every finished reply has a read-aloud link that reads it in your browser's own voice: code is skipped with a word, links are read as their text, and one reading runs at a time.

Both run inside your browser. Chrome, Edge and Safari carry the speech engine, so the buttons appear there and stay hidden in Firefox. No audio is sent to askr, nothing is recorded, and neither costs credits. The first tap asks for the microphone; if you have said no, the note tells you where the switch is on your platform.

What stays and what does not

Your chats are kept on your account, so they follow you across devices and are there when you come back. Each one is named by what it asks; the Chats tab of your account lists them and lets you download or delete any of them. Nobody at askr reads them and nothing you type trains a model; the privacy page says exactly what is stored. Images and video clips you make are kept in your library.

If a model refuses to answer

A reply with no content is treated as an error, not an answer, and is not charged. A model whose provider is not currently serving it says so before the turn runs. Listed but refused. Every error in the workspace ends with a code; the list says what each one means.