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The base annual price for the Cloud SCAYT service is $250 per service, which covers the service usage up to 50 million words per year.
Let us explain how the Cloud usage is calculated:
The way how the requests are sent directly depends on the way the users enter their texts. There are several possible scenarios:
a. A user inserts the portion of 100 words, the whole text will be divided into small portions up to 10 words and sent to the server for spell checking. Thus, as a result, you will have about 10 requests in this case.
b. A user starts typing in the textarea, typed several words and stopped for a few seconds. These two words will be sent to the server to check. So, in this case, you will have a request with only two words.
Cloud subscription is limited to the number of processed words during a year, no matter their correctness level. The number of words depends on the Cloud plan. For example, the Basic/Starter package includes up to 200 million words processed per year. The services calculate the total number of words which were processed, no matter their correctness level.
In such products as WProofreader or SCAYT, the text will be divided into sentences and sent in batches (up to 10 sentences) for checking. Once a user starts editing a document with the proofreader enabled, the whole text will be parsed and divided into sentences. All the words in the text will be counted excluding punctuation and spaces. The words will be counted again if there are changes in the sentences.
Separately, there is a mechanism of sentence caching during the session. If you are entering the same sentence again and again, or the same paragraph, no external calls will be made. Thus, those words won't be counted.
For example, you have a text for 1,000 words. Then you add a word to complete a sentence. In this case, this sentence will be rechecked. The total number of counted words will be 1,000 + the length of a sentence.
Another example, if you are editing the document with 1,000 words, then save the document and reload the page. After that, you start editing the same document again, all 1,000 words will be checked again. Thus, the total will be 2,000.
You can check your usage statistics for the previous month and from the previous payment date from your subscription management panel on our website. Please note that daily statistics aggregated with a 10-15 minute delay, there is no live-time synchronizationHowever, there is one thing that you should keep in mind. There is a mechanism of “caching/remembering” previously checked words during this active session (until the page reload). Thus, SCAYT remembers already checked words and won't send them again for spell checking.
For example, if you have text something like “Hello, how are you ” and the user adds at the end of the sentence a word “today”, so a new sentence is “Hello, how are you today”, then the only one word “today” will be sent to the server for checking.
After that, the user adds “. Hello” and pauses for a few seconds, so a new sentence is “Hello, how are you today. Hello”. In this case, SCAYT doesn't send any requests as all these words have been already checked, and we know that “Hello” is a correct word.
