# Else Docs > How Else handles your work: what it costs, what it will and won't do on its own, and how to stay in control. ## Guides - [Else documentation](https://elsedoes.com/docs/): How Else handles your work — what it costs, what it will and won't do on its own, and how to stay in control. - [What Else is](https://elsedoes.com/docs/what-is-else/): Else takes a piece of work off your hands, plans it, does it, and hands back a result — checking with you at the moments… - [Your first task](https://elsedoes.com/docs/your-first-task/): A walkthrough of one real delegation — from the sentence you type to the result you download. - [Writing a good request](https://elsedoes.com/docs/writing-a-good-request/): How to hand a job over so it comes back finished — the background only you have, the constraints that matter, and the th… - [Giving it materials](https://elsedoes.com/docs/giving-it-materials/): Three ways to hand over files, what it accepts, the size limits, and the one difference between a chat and a handed-off … - [Reviewing what comes back](https://elsedoes.com/docs/reviewing-what-comes-back/): How to tell finished from stalled, where the deliverables actually are, and what to do when the work came back wrong — o… - [Checking its work](https://elsedoes.com/docs/checking-its-work/): How to tell whether a result can be used as it stands — which safeguards are enforced by the system, which are only rule… - [Choosing a tier](https://elsedoes.com/docs/tiers-explained/): Auto, Fast, Smart and Max — what each one is for, what actually divides them, and which kind of job belongs on which. - [The Fast tier](https://elsedoes.com/docs/tiers/fast/): The Fast tier runs gemini-3.6-flash by default — $1.80 per million input tokens and $9.00 per million output tokens. Wha… - [The Smart tier](https://elsedoes.com/docs/tiers/smart/): The Smart tier runs gpt-5.6-terra by default — $2.40 up to 272K · $4.80 over 272K per million input tokens and $14.40 up… - [The Max tier](https://elsedoes.com/docs/tiers/max/): The Max tier runs claude-opus-5 by default — $6.00 per million input tokens and $30.00 per million output tokens. What l… - [Switching engines](https://elsedoes.com/docs/switching-models/): Where to change which engine runs your work, exactly how far each of those places reaches, and when switching is worth d… - [Changing what a tier runs](https://elsedoes.com/docs/changing-tier-defaults/): You can point Fast, Smart or Max at a different model permanently. Here is where, what it affects, and why most people s… - [Models that can read your images](https://elsedoes.com/docs/models-that/read-your-images/): The 20 of 81 models Else can run where we have measured image input working — hand them a screenshot or a photo and they… - [Models that can take a whole document](https://elsedoes.com/docs/models-that/take-a-whole-document/): The 25 of 81 models Else can run with a context window of a million tokens or more — enough for a long document and a lo… - [Models the maker says can read PDFs](https://elsedoes.com/docs/models-that/read-pdfs/): The 11 of 81 models Else can run whose maker documents PDF input. A maker's claim, not our measurement. - [Models we have not tested for image input](https://elsedoes.com/docs/models-that/have-not-been-image-tested/): The 45 of 81 models Else can run where image input is untested. We do not know, and this page says so rather than guessi… - [How billing works](https://elsedoes.com/docs/how-billing-works/): Else is prepaid and metered. You top up a Wallet, and each run draws from it at a published price — no subscription, no … - [Why it cost that much](https://elsedoes.com/docs/why-it-cost-that-much/): What a run's total is actually made of, why long work gets expensive faster than you expect, and real measured runs that… - [Reading a receipt](https://elsedoes.com/docs/reading-a-receipt/): Every run that costs money produces an itemized receipt. Here is each field, what it means, and where to find it. - [Model prices](https://elsedoes.com/docs/model-prices/): The per-token retail price of every model Else can run, and which model each tier uses by default. - [Topping up](https://elsedoes.com/docs/topping-up/): How to add money to your Wallet, what the three amounts are, what happens the first time, and what to do if checkout fai… - [When a run fails](https://elsedoes.com/docs/when-a-run-fails/): You are charged for work that actually ran, even when nothing useful came back. There is no refund. Here is exactly what… - [Limits](https://elsedoes.com/docs/limits/): Every limit you can actually run into — attachment sizes, how many questions it may ask, the ceilings on a single turn, … - [Spending limits](https://elsedoes.com/docs/spending-limits/): The limit you set on a message is enforced now — but it stops after the step that crosses it, not before. What that mean… - [When it checks with you](https://elsedoes.com/docs/when-it-checks-with-you/): The situations where Else stops and waits for a decision, how to widen or narrow them, and why waiting costs you nothing… - [Stopping a run](https://elsedoes.com/docs/stopping-a-run/): You can stop work mid-flight. What survives, what is thrown away, and what happens to money already spent. - [When it takes too long](https://elsedoes.com/docs/when-it-takes-too-long/): The limits that stop a run that is going on too long, what a stalled task looks like, what you can do about it, and what… - [What it won't do](https://elsedoes.com/docs/what-it-wont-do/): The limits Else actually has — enforced mechanically or written into the rules it runs under — and the limits we are not… - [Your data](https://elsedoes.com/docs/your-data/): Where the files you hand over actually go, how long they stay, who can see them, and whether any of it is used to train … - [Sharing results](https://elsedoes.com/docs/sharing-results/): What a share link shows the person you send it to, the files it deliberately leaves out, and the fact that you cannot sw… - [Deleting your data](https://elsedoes.com/docs/deleting-your-data/): What you can delete yourself, what has no delete button at all, how to get a copy of your data, and how to close your ac… - [Add-ons](https://elsedoes.com/docs/add-ons/): The 13 built-in abilities every run already has, how to narrow them for a single run, and how to teach it something of y… - [Connecting your apps](https://elsedoes.com/docs/connecting-apps/): What Else can do inside the accounts you already use, how your credentials are stored, and which actions stop for your a… - [Using an app you connected](https://elsedoes.com/docs/using-your-apps/): Connecting an app doesn't put it into a run. Here is how to hand a run access to one, how to keep a run to just the apps… - [Assistants](https://elsedoes.com/docs/assistants/): An assistant is a saved set of standing instructions you can talk to. What you can configure, what each setting actually… - [Recurring work](https://elsedoes.com/docs/recurring-work/): How to set a job to repeat, the five cadences on offer, and the three behaviours that surprise people — no questions, no… - [On your phone](https://elsedoes.com/docs/on-your-phone/): Else runs in a mobile browser and can be installed to your home screen. What moves, what is missing, and why you should … - [Something went wrong](https://elsedoes.com/docs/troubleshooting/): The four things that go wrong most often, what each one actually is, and the page that fixes it — start here if you have… - [It stopped before it finished](https://elsedoes.com/docs/troubleshooting/it-stopped-early/): Four different things stop a run and they look alike from the outside. How to tell a cost ceiling from a clock, a step c… - [It cost more than I expected](https://elsedoes.com/docs/troubleshooting/it-cost-more-than-expected/): Six things to check, in order, when a run's total is higher than you planned for — starting with the two that explain mo… - [The result looks wrong](https://elsedoes.com/docs/troubleshooting/the-result-looks-wrong/): How to tell an invented claim from a checkable one without re-reading everything — the signals worth looking at, and wha… - [A connected app isn't being used](https://elsedoes.com/docs/troubleshooting/app-connected-but-unused/): Connecting an app does not put it into a run, and the home screen cannot add one. The one place it works, and how to con… - [Settings reference](https://elsedoes.com/docs/settings-reference/): Every setting in Else, grouped as the product groups them — what each one does, its default, and how far it reaches. - [Glossary](https://elsedoes.com/docs/glossary/): Every word Else uses for something specific, defined in one line, with a link to the page that explains it properly. ## Updates - [Updates](https://elsedoes.com/docs/updates/): What changed in Else, reported one week at a time. Only changes that are live for everyone, written as what you can do n… - [Week of September 29, 2026](https://elsedoes.com/docs/updates/2026-09-29/): Auto stopped sending ordinary jobs to the most expensive engine, and a shared receipt card now shows when your job actua… - [Week of July 27, 2026](https://elsedoes.com/docs/updates/2026-07-27/): The week work you hand off started coming back with finished files, the receipt was rewritten in your terms, and you cou… - [Week of July 20, 2026](https://elsedoes.com/docs/updates/2026-07-20/): The week the built-in abilities became real work rather than switches, and the controls you set on a conversation starte…