FAQ

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Everything about the governed council, security, credits, and the studio.

What is Throndar?

Throndar is a governed AI portal: it routes your prompt across twelve frontier models, fuses their outputs into one synthesized answer, and secures every session with post-quantum cryptography. You also get a premium media engine suite in the same console.

Why a council of models instead of one?

A single model gives you one guess. Throndar routes, deliberates across twelve models, and runs a governance pass that labels every answer (PASS or flagged) before it ships — so each answer is synthesized and reviewed, not asserted by one model. The label rides with the answer and is bound into its signature.

Learn more: Why one AI model is a single point of failure
Is it really free to start?

Yes. The Recon tier is $0 with no card: 200 starter credits plus 5 free council answers every day. Upgrade only when you need more throughput or the full apex layer.

What does 'post-quantum signed' mean?

Every answer is signed with a NIST-standardized post-quantum signature — ML-DSA-87 (FIPS 204) — plus a Falcon co-signature (FN-DSA, FIPS 206 forthcoming), that you can verify yourself — that's the part you don't have to take on trust. Web transport uses TLS 1.3 (the same protocol that secures every HTTPS site today); the internal model-plane bridge hop adds a hybrid X25519 + ML-KEM-1024 key exchange. The signatures are the post-quantum assurance that travels with each answer.

Learn more: What “verified AI” actually means
Can I verify a Throndar answer myself?

Yes. Every answer is signed with post-quantum cryptography (ML-DSA-87), and you can confirm in your own browser that Throndar produced it, unaltered, at throndar.ai/verify/proof. You can also share any answer as a self-proving link, or pin a single quote that anyone can verify against the signed original. Don't trust us — check it yourself.

Learn more: How to verify an AI answer
What is the public transparency ledger?

Every signed answer is appended to a public, append-only log — the same RFC 6962 Merkle structure (Certificate Transparency) that secures the web's TLS certificates. We publish only hashes, never your content. Each checkpoint root is signed and the witness history is checked, so a rewrite of past history is detectable rather than silent, and you can prove any answer is in it — verified in your browser at throndar.ai/transparency/ledger.

Which cryptographic algorithms does Throndar use?

All of them are published openly. Our Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) at throndar.ai/pqc lists every primitive — ML-DSA-87 (NIST FIPS 204), SLH-DSA (FIPS 205), ML-KEM-1024 (FIPS 203) and more — mapped to its standard and role, following the TNO / AIVD / CWI PQC Migration Handbook. Throndar is designed and assessed against these public standards; it is not a certification, and we make no 'quantum-proof' claim.

Learn more: The NIST post-quantum standards, explained
How does billing work?

Usage is metered in credits. A full council answer is 81 credits; media engines are priced per run. If an action fails, its credits are automatically refunded — you only pay for delivered work. Monthly grant credits roll over for one month; top-up credits never expire.

What payment methods do you accept?

Card (via Stripe's hosted checkout — we never see your card number), crypto (BTC, ETH, SOL, ALGO), and Zelle. Switch or cancel anytime.

What can I create in the Studio?

Image, video, voice and audio from one governed console. FLUX image generation is live now; additional engines are coming online as they're provisioned.

Do you store my keys or data?

Private keys stay in your custody and are never entered in chat. Server-side secrets are never exposed to the browser, and sessions are scoped and revocable.

Still curious? Start free and ask the council yourself.