1. Full requests, then basic settings
Each plan comes with a number of full requests a month. A full request gets everything your plan includes. Once the month's full requests are used up, requests are answered in basic settings until the month resets or you upgrade. Your pages keep working: the same address still answers with a picture.
2. What basic settings give
| Choice | In basic settings |
|---|---|
| Colour | Silver, black or white; any other colour is served in silver |
| Angle | The front three-quarter |
| Background | White |
| Width | Up to 800 pixels |
| Plate | Blank |
| Format | WebP or JPEG; a PNG request is served as WebP |
A basic picture is the vehicle we hold, made once and kept, so it costs nothing to serve.
3. How to tell
Every response says which it was. The Hyke-Mode header reads full or basic, and Hyke-Full-Requests-Left counts what is left this month. Each choice basic settings changed is counted in Hyke-Differences and explained at the address in Hyke-Details, for example:
Any colour is available for your first 150 requests each month. Those are used up, so we served silver. Basic colours: silver, black, white.
4. When the full requests come back
Full requests come back when the month resets, or at once when you upgrade. Because a browser keeps a basic picture for only five minutes, your pages show the full picture again soon after.
5. Where the free plan stops
On Starter and Pro, basic requests have no monthly limit. On the free plan, the 150 full requests are followed by 7,500 basic requests a month. After those, picture requests are refused with a clear monthly-limit message until the month resets. Nothing is ever charged.