Credits, and what a generation actually costs
Where the number on the button comes from, and what happens when a run fails.
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One currency, every model
Everything in the studio is priced in credits. One credit is €0.001, and the smallest pack is €10. Prices on this site are excluding VAT.
A single currency across every model is the point. Providers price per image, per second, per megapixel and per thousand tokens, in four different units, and comparing two models across those units is not something anyone should have to do in their head.
The number on the button is the number
Before you press generate, the cost is on the button, worked out from your actual settings: the model, the resolution, the length, the number of images, whether sound is on, and whether you attached your own style model.
It is calculated by the same function that does the charging. There is no separate estimate that can drift away from the real figure, because there is only one figure.
What moves the price
Not every setting costs something, and the ones that do vary per model.
- Length , every video model charges per second, and this is the biggest lever by far.
- Resolution , most models charge more at higher resolution, some by a factor of three.
- Sound , 11 models charge a separate rate for audio. On the others the provider states it costs nothing extra, so neither do we.
- Number of images , multiplies straightforwardly.
- Your own style model , some providers charge more for a large one, and that is passed through as measured.
When a run fails
An outage or a mistake on our side refunds in full. Nothing was made and nothing should be paid.
A refusal by the model itself is different. The provider still spent real machine time, and still bills us for it. There you get our markup back and not the purchase price. It is never more than the attempt actually cost, and it is booked separately so it stays visible.
Most platforms refund nothing on a content refusal. Reading that back, "you get part of it back" sounds like the weaker deal, which is why it is worth stating plainly: it is more than the market does, and it is still not a loss for us.
Credits do not expire
What you buy stays yours. There is no monthly reset that quietly takes back what you did not use.