test, demo) exist for QA and the public demo at intel.exorde.io; they are not sold and never appear in upgrade flows.
At a glance
Trial keys are minted via
POST /v1/keys/trial. Paid tiers are issued after Stripe checkout.
Endpoint access by tier
A 403
upgrade_required response always carries current_tier, required_tier, feature, and upgrade: true so client UIs can render an upgrade CTA without parsing strings.
History depth caps
The API enforces per-tier caps on how far back you can query each surface. Requests above the cap are silently clamped (no error) — the response will indicate the effective window.Result-size caps
Hard ceilings onlimit parameters across endpoints.
Requesting
limit=10000 on a Watch key returns at most 20 items. Use pagination cursors where supported.
What happens at quota limits
Topic catalog
The four customer-facing curated topics:
Additional curated slices (defense, energy, geopolitics, MENA, etc.) are available to enterprise Know customers on request — contact [email protected].
Test and demo tiers
exd_test_* keys serve fixture data for deterministic plumbing tests. They do not cost quota and are not issued to customers. Production data requires a paid key. The public demo at intel.exorde.io runs on a shared demo tier key with elevated rate limits.