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ProductMarch 18, 2026 · 5 min read

What 1 credit actually costs us

A peek behind the credit price. Where credits go, what tools cost to run, and why the cheapest tool is 1 credit.

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Pricing is one of the parts of a product where it's worth being honest. So here's what's behind a credit.

Where the money goes

  • Inference cost — what the model itself costs us per call
  • Storage — uploaded inputs and generated outputs in R2
  • Stripe fees — about 3% on every pack
  • Server, monitoring, support, taxes — the boring middle

Why 1 credit is the floor

The cheapest tool we run — image-to-prompt — costs us a fraction of a cent per call. We charge 1 credit because anything finer than that turns the credit into something you have to do math on. We'd rather keep it simple and price the tool, not the operation.

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