# Events

Any active [strategy](https://references.everstrike.io/ai/strategies) on Everstrike produces events. Events provide insight into the decision making process of the AI that is executing the strategy, and help debug prompts.

An event has the following properties:

<table><thead><tr><th width="197"></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Creation Time</td><td>Time at which the event was first seen</td></tr><tr><td>Pair</td><td>Market that the event relates to</td></tr><tr><td>Action</td><td>"BUY", "SELL",  "HOLD" or "CLOSE" - trading decision made by the AI</td></tr><tr><td>Amount</td><td>USD quantity of any orders submitted by AI as part of the event</td></tr><tr><td>Price</td><td>Mark Price of the market that the event relates to, at Creation Time</td></tr><tr><td>Confidence</td><td>How confident the AI was in its decision - a number ranging from 0% to 100%</td></tr><tr><td>Reasoning</td><td>The reasoning employed by the AI and that led to its Action</td></tr><tr><td>Strategy</td><td>The strategy that produced the event </td></tr><tr><td>Order Submitted</td><td>Whether an order was submitted as part of the event</td></tr><tr><td>Forced Evaluation</td><td>Whether the event was the result of a forced evaluation</td></tr><tr><td>Model</td><td>AI model used to generate the event</td></tr><tr><td>Prompt Tokens</td><td>Prompt tokens consumed when generating the event</td></tr><tr><td>Completion Tokens</td><td>Completion tokens consumed when generating the event</td></tr><tr><td>Discretion</td><td>Whether discretion was employed in the AI's decision</td></tr><tr><td>Cost Savings Mode</td><td>Whether the event was generated in Cost Savings Mode - events generated in Cost Savings Mode have minimal reasoning output</td></tr><tr><td>Thinking Time</td><td>Time taken by the AI to arrive at its decision </td></tr><tr><td>Credits Used</td><td>AI credits consumed as part of the event</td></tr></tbody></table>

Active strategies produce one event per evaluation. Paused strategies do not produce events. A strategy's evaluation frequency determines the rate at which it produces events.

Each event consumes AI credits. AI credits are automatically deducted from the user's USD balance.

If a user wants to pause event generation and conserve credits, the user can pause their strategies. A paused strategy does not generate events. It also does not trade, and does not consume AI credits Paused strategies can be resumed at any time, at the discretion of the user.

### Event Frequencies

Events are produced at the following frequencies:

<table><thead><tr><th width="191.7734375">Evaluation Frequency</th><th width="287.734375">Events Produced Per Market Per Day</th><th>Hourly Credit Usage Per Market</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1s</td><td>86400</td><td>$0.54</td></tr><tr><td>5s</td><td>17280</td><td>$0.108</td></tr><tr><td>15s</td><td>5760</td><td>$0.036</td></tr><tr><td>30s</td><td>2880</td><td>$0.018</td></tr><tr><td>1m</td><td>1440</td><td>$0.009</td></tr><tr><td>3m</td><td>480</td><td>$0.003</td></tr><tr><td>5m</td><td>288</td><td>$0.0018</td></tr><tr><td>15m</td><td>96</td><td>$0.0006</td></tr><tr><td>30m</td><td>48</td><td>$0.0003</td></tr><tr><td>1h</td><td>24</td><td>$0.00015</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Event Costs

| Model                        | Cost Per Event |
| ---------------------------- | -------------- |
| GPT-4o-mini                  | $0.000125      |
| GPT-4.1                      | $0.0015        |
| GPT-4.1-mini                 | $0.00015       |
| GPT-4.1-nano                 | $0.000075      |
| GPT-5-mini-minimal-reasoning | $0.0002        |
| GPT-5-nano-minimal-reasoning | $0.00005       |
| GPT-5-mini-low-reasoning     | $0.0004        |
| GPT-5-nano-low-reasoning     | $0.0001        |
| GPT-5-mini-medium-reasoning  | $0.0008        |
| GPT-5-nano-medium-reasoning  | $0.0002        |
| GPT-5-mini-high-reasoning    | $0.002         |
| GPT-5-nano-high-reasoning    | $0.0004        |