Getting started
Iterna is where you assemble a bot, or an automated piece of work, and hand it to people: as a chat page behind a link, a widget on your own site, a Telegram bot, a call from another system, or a run on a schedule. You assemble it with the mouse, out of cards. No programming.
This page is the map of the start: what you need, what happens in the first five minutes and where to go next. The step-by-step build with a result at the end is the first tutorial.
What you need
An account, and nothing else. Signing up creates a workspace and a free plan for you — no model key, no card, no installation. Models come from the platform catalog, so your first bot answers as soon as you pick one from the dropdown.
The first five minutes
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Sign up. You land in Scenarios, and it is empty — that is expected: No scenarios yet.
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Press New scenario. The dialog has three tabs: From a template (open from the start), Blank and From a description.
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Take a template. It is the shortest path to a working graph: the whole scenario opens in the editor and all you do is pick a model. An empty scenario opens as an empty canvas — there is no entry and no exit on it, and you drag both in from the palette yourself.
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Pick a model on the LLM node and press Save.
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Switch to the Test tab and write the bot a message. There is no separate run button in the editor — a message in the chat is what starts the scenario.
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The Deploy tab → the Public chat channel → the Deploy version 1 button. You get a link you can open in another browser or send to a colleague.
Scenarios
Scenarios
No scenarios yet
| Name | Status | Runs 7d |
|---|---|---|
| — | — | — |
What it costs
A quark is the service’s unit of account, and it is spent on work actually done. One chat turn adds up like this:
0.4 (the scenario run)
+ 0.1 (the LLM node call)
+ input/1000 × k_in + output/1000 × k_outSo half a quark at minimum per answer, however short the reply. Everything above that is the model’s rate: a turn of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about one quark on the default model and tens of quarks on the expensive reasoning ones. The free plan grants 300 quarks per 30 days; how many answers that is depends on the model and on how much found text travels into it with the question — the first run on your own documents shows the real price.
Every model’s rate is shown in Settings → Models, next to its name. The full breakdown of what is charged is in Quarks and cost.
The edges of the free plan
Worth knowing up front — otherwise you meet them as a refusal at the moment everything is already built.
| What | On the free plan |
|---|---|
| Quarks | 300 per 30 days, no overage |
| Deploy channels | all six |
| Deployed at once | one scenario |
| Scenarios in total | five |
| Knowledge bases | two |
| Choice of models | the dearest ones are out: a ceiling on the output rate keeps a single turn from eating the month |
| Your own model (your key) | not allowed |
Exact values for every limit are in Plan limits: that table is generated from the platform’s own settings and cannot drift from reality.
Where to go next
Your first chatbot
Step by step: build it, test it and put it behind a link in one sitting.
What Iterna is
The product model in five minutes: graph, nodes, wires, channels.
Examples
Ready-made graphs — copy the nodes into your own project.
Glossary
Short definitions of the terms used in the app and the docs.