Glossary - QuotaMint

Term	Definition
Account plan	The QuotaMint plan applied to a workspace: Free, Pro, or Scale
API key	A project-scoped credential for public `/v1` runtime calls
Check	A read-only entitlement and affordability decision
Consume	The authoritative check-and-charge operation
Credit ledger	Append-only history of balance mutations
Customer	Your user, organization, or billable subject inside a project
Dashboard	Where your team configures workspaces, plans, features, customers, and credits
Environment	Development, staging, or production context selected by a key
Entitlement	A plan’s permission to use a feature
Event	A non-credit usage record created by `/v1/events`
Feature	A stable key representing a product capability
Idempotency key	A client-supplied key that makes a logical operation replay-safe
Plan	A product-level set of customer entitlements and monthly credits
Project	Runtime isolation boundary for customers, keys, plans, and usage
Request ID	Identifier returned on every response for log correlation
Workspace	Collaboration, account-plan, and team-membership boundary

A QuotaMint account plan is not the same thing as a plan you create for your customers. The former controls your workspace’s capacity; the latter controls your product’s access rules.