Public access and rate limits

Control who can access your AI Search features and set rate limits to manage usage. These settings determine how the chat widget and search page behave for your visitors.

Public access settings

Configure public access to your AI Search features from the Search settings page in the dashboard.

Setting	Default	Description
enabled	false	Enable public access to AI Search
allowedDomains	[]	Domains permitted to embed search widgets
searchEnabled	true	Allow search queries
chatEnabled	true	Allow chat conversations
anonymousSessions	true	Allow unauthenticated users
sessionTTLMinutes	60	Session expiry time in minutes

Caution

Enabling public access allows anyone on your allowed domains to use AI Search, which consumes AI inference credits.

Rate limits

Rate limits protect your AI Search usage and prevent abuse. Configure these values to balance availability with cost control.

Setting	Default	Description
searchPerMinute	100	Maximum search queries per minute
chatPerMinute	20	Maximum chat messages per minute
perIpPerMinute	30	Maximum requests per IP address per minute

When a rate limit is exceeded, the widget or search page displays a message asking the visitor to try again shortly. Rate limits reset every minute.

Allowed domains

Restrict which domains can embed the chat widget and search page by adding your production domain(s) to the allowedDomains list. This prevents unauthorised usage of your AI Search on third-party sites.

For example, to allow only your production site:

{
  "allowedDomains": ["www.example.com", "example.com"]
}

If the allowedDomains list is empty, requests from any domain are accepted when public access is enabled.

Next steps

• Get started — Enable AI Search and index your content
• Chat widget — Embed the floating chat widget
• Search page — Embed the full search page component