Space and Time organizes users into subscriptions, which can be an individual, a project, organization, department, or even entire enterprise! Subscriptions do not require payment, and there are several advantages to taking a moment to setup a subscription:

Users without a subscription are considered "Trial" users and have some limitations placed on their activities. All trial users start with 50 free queries.
Users in a subscription, even without a payment method, are granted an additional 50 queries. They are also released from most of the "trial" restrictions.

Click here to learn more about the types of of subscriptions available.

If you are the project founder or function owner, and new to the Space and Time network, you can decide what subscription type makes sense for your use-case and get signed up!

Types of Subscriptions

There are three types of subscriptions available today in the Space and Time network, each with different capabilities:

Capability	Trial User	Price per Compute	Fixed Rate
Run Queries (AI, optimistic, or tamperproof)	100 free queries (of any kind)	✅ Only pay for compute used	✅ Unlimited, for one fixed monthly cost
Create custom charts & dashboards	✅ Create any number of custom charts and dashboards	✅ Create any number of custom charts and dashboards	✅ Create any number of custom charts and dashboards
Access Indexed Blockchain Data	✅ Unlimited access to all indexed chains	✅ Unlimited access to all indexed chains	✅ Unlimited access to all indexed chains
Build Custom Smart Contract Indexing	✅ Create up to 10 new custom indexing tables	✅ Create up to 10 new custom indexing tables	✅ Create up to 10 new custom indexing tables
Create custom tables and views	Cannot create custom tables	Can create small to medium tables	✅ Create any number of any sized tables
Billing Method (multi-tenant)	Free	Charge per query, metered by CPU seconds used	Unlimited queires for one fixed monthly amount

Check out our pricing page for the latest pricing. Also, if you're considering Price per Compute and looking to understand what different types of queries cost, check out this analysis on PPC .

There is no cost for data storage.

This activity will help you setup a free subscription, so you can continue the rest of the accreditation without "trial" restrictions. It will also help you understand different paid options, if you wish to continue. Additionally, your organization may already have a subscription with Space and Time - if so, this will cover how to get your user connected to your organization.

Creating a New Subscription

For this activity, you DO NOT need a paid subscription, however you will need to remove the restrictions of a "trial" user.

Creating a new subscription is extremely simple using Space and Time Studio! Having a subscription opens up certain features (like creating tables) that are unavailable without a subscription.

To create a new subscription:

Navigate to Space and Time Studio, click on "Sign In" in the upper-right most corner, and log in.
Note: the UserID who creates the subscription will be the first "owner" and have full super-admin permissions.
Click on "My Account" in the upper-right (replaces "Sign In") and make sure you're on the "My Account" tab.
On the right side, you should find a section outlining the various subscriptions and payment options - select the option that best fits your use-case click Subscribe! Depending on your payment preferences, there will be a wizard to help you set-up your credit card or crypto wallet for payments.

If you're not sure, Price per Compute is a great way to get started, as it's a pay-as-you-go plan with no minimums on usage - only pay for what you use!

When you're ready, enter your payment information and join the usage based model, where you only pay for queries you run, no minimums. If you use 10¢ worth of compute, you're only charged 10¢. If you never run queries again, you're never charged again!

Once you successfully create your subscription, the information on the right will be replaced with ways to manage your subscription / organization, and your name will lose it's "trial" tag.

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Congrats! You now have a Space and Time subscription!

My Organization Already Has a Subscription!

If your organization already has an active Space and Time subscription that you'd like to join, your SxT admin must issue you a 'JoinCode'. The JoinCode they send you will look like a hexidecimal key, for example: 1115639b5baf85bba86153f8

To Join a subscription with a JoinCode:

Ask your internal Space and Time administrator to generate and send you a new JoinCode over a secure channel.
Navigate to Space and Time Studio, click on "Sign In" in the upper-right most corner, and log in.
Click on "My Account" in the upper-right (replaces "Sign In") and make sure you're on the "My Account" tab.
In the section called "Join an Existing Subscription" find the text box labeled "Join Code."
Copy/paste the JoinCode from your administrator in the text box, and click "Submit."

You should see a green confirmation message in the upper right, and this section of the UI will be replaced with information on you current subscription.

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Congrats! You've just joined a subscription!

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The JoinCode expires 24 hours after generation and is consumed once used (for security) - so don't delay!

Run a Big Query!

Since the fees for the first 100 queries are waived, let's run a sizable query with our new subscription! Open up the Space and Time Studio (or the query editor of your choice) and query the monthly active wallets for Bitcoin, going all the way back in history to 2009:

SELECT substr(time_stamp,1,7) as Year_Mth, count(*) as Active_Wallets  
FROM bitcoin.WALLETS  
WHERE time_stamp < cast(substr(current_timestamp,1,7)||'-01' as date)  
GROUP BY 1   ORDER BY 1
LIMIT 10000

This little query will traverse almost 700GB of data and aggregate by month, all complete in between 20 and 30 seconds, on average. The Space and Time Studio Query Visualization engine also generates a great chart with this data, mapping neatly to the bull / bear cycles of crypto.

Get Credit:

You'll get credit for this activity if you:

Associate your UserID with a Subscription (any subscription)
Use that UserID to run a query that
- selects from the Bitcoin.Wallets table, and
- returns at least 2 columns, called Year_Mth and Active_Wallets