Tier System

ZDrive has three access tiers based on wallet connection and credit balance.

Tier comparison

	Anonymous	Connected	Paid
Requirement	None	Wallet + minimum on-chain activity on Base	Wallet + credits > 0
Query limit	10 / session (1h)	25 / day	100 / hour (burst)
Models	Qwen3-32B only	Qwen3-32B, MiniMax-M2.5	All TEE models
Vault upload	No	No	Yes
Datacenter block	Yes	Yes	No (agent use)
Rate key	Session UUID	Wallet address + date	Wallet address + hour

Tier resolution flow

Notes

Wallet age gate: Connected wallets with insufficient on-chain activity on Base receive the same query limit as anonymous users. This mitigates automated abuse via freshly created wallets.

Datacenter block: Requests from known datacenter ASNs are blocked on free and connected tiers. Paid users bypass this — agent and automated workloads are a paid use case.

Session expiry: Anonymous sessions expire after 1 hour regardless of query count (KV TTL = 3600s). Connected and paid tiers use daily/hourly keys that reset at UTC midnight/hour.