# How tracking works

> One budget of AI answers a month for your workspace, shared across your brands, and how daily, weekly, twice-weekly and mixed checks spend it.

Source: https://prefera.si/docs/concepts/how-tracking-works
Docs index for agents: https://prefera.si/llms.txt

Every paid plan gives your workspace one budget of **AI answers** a month, shared across all its brands. Each time an engine answers one of your questions, that is one answer, whichever engine it was. You decide how each brand spends its share.

## The modes

For each brand you pick one of these in **Tracking**. Each comes with the reason to choose it:

| Mode | Why | Solo | Starter | Growth | Agency Starter |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mix (recommended) | Fast where it matters, steady everywhere else. | 3 daily + 16 weekly | 5 daily + 46 weekly | 20 daily + 184 weekly | 50 daily + 576 weekly |
| Daily | Catch changes the day they happen. | about 10 | about 25 | about 100 | about 300 |
| Weekly × 3 answers | AI answers vary from ask to ask; three answers give a steadier number. | up to 23 | up to 57 | up to 230 | up to 692 |
| Twice weekly × 3 answers | Steady numbers that still move quickly. | 11 | 28 | 115 | 346 |

The counts above use a plan's whole budget on the five included engines. A workspace with several brands splits the budget between them (evenly by default; you can give a brand more).

- **Mix (recommended)** checks your most important questions daily and the rest weekly with 3 answers. This is what every brand starts with.
- **Daily** gives each question 1 answer per engine every day. Your numbers and Proof count the last 7 days, so a daily question still rests on up to 7 answers per engine.
- **Weekly** asks each question once a week, with 1, 2 or 3 answers per engine.
- **Twice weekly** asks each question twice a week, with 3 answers per engine.

## Your question limit

Your plan's question limit is how many questions its answers cover weekly with 3 answers on all five engines. Fewer answers per question, or fewer engines, never raise it: they leave answers for more daily or twice-weekly checks instead. If a change means some questions no longer fit, they stay saved and are checked again once there is room. Nothing is deleted.

## Engines

Every plan includes ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini and Perplexity. Turning engines off for a brand means each question uses fewer answers, so the same budget covers more daily questions.

Claude is the **Claude add-on** on every plan, in two tiers. **Claude on the questions you choose** gives the workspace a Claude answer budget each month: 130 (Solo), 325 (Starter), 1,300 (Growth) or 3,900 (Agency Starter) Claude answers, each with up to 2 web searches, shared by your brands. You choose the questions and how often: daily (1 Claude answer a day, through the daily check) or weekly × 1, × 2 or × 3 (on the weekly runs; a twice-weekly brand gets Claude on every second run). On Growth that is about 100 weekly × 3, 300 weekly × 1, or 42 daily. Until you choose, Prefera picks your most important questions weekly × 3: the questions you check daily or watch first, then the highest priority. **Claude on every question** answers every question you track on every run, in each brand's tracking mode. Both come on top of your AI answers. Turn one on in **Team and billing**.

## Setting it up

Right after you pick a plan, onboarding shows **Set up tracking** with the recommended setup and how many questions it covers. You can change it there, or skip and keep the recommended setup. You can change it any time in **Tracking**: the screen shows how many questions each choice allows before you save.

## When the answers run out

Your plan's AI answers are a hard cap: a run never goes past them. When a scheduled run would, it checks only your most important questions that still fit; **Run now** says how many answers are left instead of starting; daily checks pause until your next billing period starts, and a banner says so. Proof still re-checks a fix you published, so it is measured. Need more? Add **Extra AI answers** in **Team and billing**, or check fewer questions daily. See [Plans, add-ons and billing](/docs/account/plans).