Playground

The playground is a no-signup way to try ChunkChef: upload one document, run it against a preset prompt, and see the recognized text and the model’s answer — right in the browser, on hotdoc.io/playground.

What it is

A single anonymous session lets you upload a file and run it through the same processing pipeline used by the API: unpacking, OCR, and a language-model call against a preset prompt. There’s no API key, no account, and no configuration — just a document and a result.

Limits

The playground is intentionally capped tighter than a real account:

• 3 runs per session — after that, the session is spent.
• A shared daily budget across all anonymous visitors, reset once a day. If it’s exhausted, new runs are paused until the next reset.
• 10 MB max file size per upload.
• Preset prompts only — you pick from a short list of ready-made prompts; free-text prompts aren’t available in the playground.

Which model runs your demo

Anonymous runs use ChunkChef-held provider keys (not yours) on a cheap, fast model — good enough to show what the API returns, not tuned for accuracy on your specific documents. Once you bring your own key (BYOK) on a real account, you choose the model.

Privacy

Uploaded demo documents are retained per standard job retention and deleted automatically — don’t upload sensitive data to the playground.

Claiming your run

Ready to keep the result? Create an account from the result gate — the same run opens in your dashboard, nothing re-runs. From there you can send real jobs with your own provider key and without the playground’s limits.