---
id: nova/community/chat
title: "Nova Chat"
description: "Nova Chat is the community-paid message allowance that comes with Community PRO."
product: nova
canonical: https://zeroauthoritydao.ai/docs/nova/community/chat
related: [nova/community]
tokens: 897
---

# Nova Chat

On Community PRO, members' messages to Nova in the server or group draw from a shared community pool (150 a day, 2,500 a month, 50 per member per day) instead of their own AI allowance. Nothing to enable.

**Nova Chat** is the community-paid message allowance that comes with **Community PRO**. In a PRO server/group, members' conversations with Nova are paid for by the **community's own pooled budget** — so a member chatting with Nova there **doesn't spend their own AI allowance**.

Without it, every member talks to Nova on their own [personal allowance](https://zeroauthoritydao.ai/docs/nova/plans.md). With Nova Chat, your community absorbs that cost: a newcomer with zero history can ask Nova twenty questions in your server on day one, and still have their full personal allowance left for DMs and other communities.

> [!NOTE]
> Nova Chat is automatic — there's **nothing to enable and nothing members need to do**. The moment a community is on Community PRO, messages to Nova in that server/group draw from the pool. See [Nova Premium for Communities](https://zeroauthoritydao.ai/docs/nova/plans/community-pro.md).

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## The Pool

| Budget | Limit |
| --- | --- |
| **Community pool, per day** | 150 messages |
| **Community pool, per month** | 2,500 messages |
| **Fair share, per member per day** | 50 messages |

The **fair-share cap** is what keeps the pool honest: one hyperactive member can't drain the whole day's budget before anyone else wakes up. After a member's 50th pooled message of the day, they simply continue on their own personal allowance.

> [!TIP]
> **The pool only ever adds headroom — it never takes any away.** When a cap is reached (fair-share, daily, or monthly), members fall back to exactly the [personal allowance](https://zeroauthoritydao.ai/docs/nova/plans.md) they'd have without it, on top of whatever the pool already covered. Only real answers draw from the pool — clarifying questions, short acknowledgements, and error notices are free. Caps reset automatically — daily at 00:00 UTC, monthly on the 1st.

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## What Members See

Nothing, usually — that's the point. Nova just answers, and nobody's personal allowance moves.

The only time Nova Chat becomes visible is when a budget runs out mid-day **and** the member's own allowance is also used up. Then, instead of the generic limit notice, Nova explains what actually happened:

> 🚫 *Nova Chat has used up this community's daily message budget (150/day). It resets automatically — no action needed. Each member uses their own allowance until it resets.*

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## Checking the Pool

Any admin can see live pool usage in the plan status — in your server/group, ask:

> *"@Nova what plan are we on?"* · *"@Nova show our plan status"*

The status card includes the Nova Chat line:

```
💬 Nova Chat pool: 37/150 messages today · 412/2,500 this month —
   members chat with Nova here without spending their own AI
   allowance (fair-share 50/member/day).
```

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## The Fine Print

| Question | Answer |
| --- | --- |
| **Does it apply in DMs?** | No — the pool covers messages **inside the PRO server/group**. DMs always use your own allowance. |
| **Do admins draw from the pool?** | Bot admins bypass rate limits entirely and never touch the pool. |
| **Do cooldowns still apply?** | Yes — the short per-user cooldown and the per-server hourly limit still protect against bursts; the pool only replaces the personal allowance. |
| **What about free communities?** | Nothing changes — members use their own allowance exactly as before. |
| **Both platforms?** | Yes — a plan covering a Discord server and a Telegram group shares one pool across both. |

***

Nova Chat pairs naturally with [Nova Soul](https://zeroauthoritydao.ai/docs/nova/community/soul.md) (your community's custom persona) — together they make Nova feel like *your community's own bot*: it speaks with your identity, on your budget.