Account and billing
Credit and referrals
The wallet behind your allowance and top-ups, and the free runs you earn by inviting people.
Credit is a plain USD balance attached to your account. It pays for free-tier runs, covers overage once a package's allowance is gone, and is what your welcome grant lands in. Referrals are paid in free runs rather than credit — see Referrals below.
Where credit comes from
| Source | Amount |
|---|---|
| Welcome grant | $1.00, once, when the account is created |
| Credit packs | $10, $25 or $50, bought any time |
| Refunds and adjustments | Whatever was corrected, with a line in your ledger |
Pro plan
32 / 100 runs68 runs left this period · renews 1 Sep
Credit
$12.40
Covers about 14 more runs beyond your allowance, at $0.85 each.
How credit is spent
Two different rates, depending on whether you have an active package:
- On the free tier a run is charged at what it actually cost. That is why $1.00 stretches to roughly three runs rather than one; the difference is what we spend on letting you try the product properly.
- On a paid package runs come out of your monthly allowance first. Once that is used, each further run is $0.85 from credit.
Why your balance dips before a run finishes
Starting a run reserves credit for it, and the reservation is released and replaced by the real charge when the run settles. You will occasionally see a reservation and a release in your ledger around the same time; that is the mechanism working, not a double charge.
The reservation is also what makes it safe to start two runs at once: they cannot both spend the same last dollar.
Note
Your balance also caps how much an agent run is allowed to spend on itself. Holding $1.00 means the agent works to a $1.00 ceiling rather than its usual one, so it stops cleanly instead of running out mid-way.
Running out
Below a small minimum balance, new runs are refused with a message telling you so, rather than started and abandoned half way. Add a credit pack or pick a package and the same request works immediately; nothing you typed is lost.
The minimum is not the same for every kind of run. Debug and Optimize ask for a higher balance than a normal generation, because both spend real work reproducing or measuring the design before they can try anything; starting one on the last few cents guarantees it stops mid-way with nothing to show. The refusal says which case you are in, because "not enough for this run" and "out of credit" are different situations and a cheaper run may still go through.
Referrals
Your code and your invite link are in Settings, under Invite a colleague. When someone signs up through them and verifies their email, you and they each receive five free runs.
- Free runs are runs, not credit: they do not appear in your balance and are spent before it.
- They pay for generation, project edits, debugging and optimization. Chat and clarifying questions come out of credit, as they always did.
- Nothing is credited until the new account verifies its email. Until then the invite shows as pending.
- The code is redeemed once, at sign-up; it cannot be applied to an account afterwards.
- Free runs do not expire, and they are not reset by a billing period.