--- title: "Checks per day (Starter plan)" description: "The Starter plan's daily limit of 500 checks: what a check is, one count for your account, when the day starts again, what happens at the limit and where you see how many are left." url: "https://docs.justcat.it/reference/basics/checks-per-day/" --- # Checks per day (Starter plan) ## Who this applies to > **😺:** The daily limit of checks is part of the **Starter plan only**. The Team and Enterprise plans have no daily limit. ## What a check is A check is one test evaluated once in one run. On the Starter plan, a test that ends in `Passed` or `Failed` uses one check. A test that ends in `Error` uses none: while you are still setting up a data source, the errors do not cost you anything. - You run a project with 40 tests: 35 pass, 3 fail, 2 end in `Error`. That run uses 38 checks. - You run the same 40 tests three times in a day: up to 120 checks. A filter counts too: a run filtered to five tests uses at most five checks. ## One count for your account On the Starter plan the 500 checks are for your account, not for a project or a computer. Every project, CAT Studio and CAT CLI, and every computer you are signed in on share one count. ## When the day starts again At midnight, your time: the time zone of your computer. CAT shows you when the limit resets, for example `The limit resets at midnight (in 5 h 12 min).` ## What happens at the limit **Some checks left.** On the Starter plan, a run that needs more checks than you have left runs as many tests as you have checks. The other tests end `Inconclusive`, each with the message that the Starter plan's limit of checks per day was reached and the test was not evaluated. Nothing in your project is wrong. **None left.** The run does not start. CAT says that you have used all checks of the Starter plan for today and when the limit resets. In CAT Studio the results of your last run stay on screen. ## Where you see how many are left - **CAT Studio**: on the Starter plan, a counter in the title bar shows the checks left today, and a click shows how many are used and when the limit resets. See [CAT Studio interface](https://docs.justcat.it/reference/cat-studio/interface/ "CAT Studio interface"). - **CAT CLI**: on the Starter plan, a run ends with a line such as `Checks today: 380 of 500 used, 120 left. The limit resets at midnight (in 5 h 12 min).` See [run](https://docs.justcat.it/reference/cat-cli/run/ "run"). - **`catcli checks`**: on the Starter plan, prints the same line without running anything and without using a check. See [checks](https://docs.justcat.it/reference/cat-cli/checks/ "checks"). ## Without a connection to CAT Portal CAT Portal keeps the Starter plan's count for your account. When CAT cannot reach the portal, it keeps a count on your computer instead, until the portal is reachable again; CAT says so next to the number (`Checks today on this machine`, or `offline` in CAT Studio). That count is for this computer only and is never added to the portal's. CAT needs the connection once on every computer: the first time CAT Portal answers your sign-in there, the count on that computer starts. If CAT can reach neither CAT Portal nor its count on your computer, the run does not start, and CAT asks you to connect to the internet and run the tests again. ## Running without the limit The Team plan has no daily limit of checks. See [Compare plans](https://docs.justcat.it/compare-plans/ "Compare plans"). ## Related - [Test results](https://docs.justcat.it/reference/tests/results/ "Test results"): what `Inconclusive` means. - [Run your tests](https://docs.justcat.it/how-to-guides/organize-and-run-tests/run-your-tests/ "Run your tests").