> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.quotamint.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Glossary

> Short definitions for QuotaMint terminology

| 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                      |

<Note>
  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.
</Note>