Credits
What credits are, what spends them, and when they come back.
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Credits are the unit Modulify meters AI work in. Everything the model does on your behalf draws them down, and nothing else does.
Credits belong to a workspace
The balance sits on the workspace, not on your account. Everyone with access to a workspace draws from the same pool, and the work a teammate runs shows up as your balance falling.
If you belong to two workspaces you have two balances. Switching workspaces switches which one you are spending.
Only the workspace owner can buy more or change the plan. Anyone else who runs out sees the balance and the plan page, with the buttons disabled.
An extra workspace needs its own paid plan
The workspace you were given when you signed up gets its plan's credits on Free. A workspace you create yourself does not: on the Free plan it is allowed zero credits and its sites are locked. Put it on a paid plan and both come back.
What a balance is made of
Two pools add up to the number you see.
Subscription credits are the allowance your plan grants, refilled monthly on the paid plans. They are the number the progress bar measures.
Top up credits are packs you bought outright. They sit alongside the allowance and are not touched by the monthly reset.
The plan and credits window breaks both out under the bar, as Subscription credits 62 / 100 and Top up credits 200, alongside Next reset. The allowance takes its name from your plan, so it reads Free credits 12 / 50 on Free and Enterprise credits on Enterprise.
Spending drains top up credits first, and only falls through to the subscription allowance once the top up pool is empty.
Where top up credits come from
Four things land in the top up pool, and none of them are cleared by the monthly reset.
- A credit pack you bought.
- The 5 credits a new workspace is given when the account was created through a Share and Earn invite link.
- The 5 credits Share and Earn pays into your default workspace when somebody creates their account through your invite link.
- The 50 credits Share and Earn pays into your default workspace the first time somebody you invited pays for a plan or a credit pack.
What spends credits
| Work | What it costs |
|---|---|
| A chat turn that builds or edits | Metered on the tokens the turn actually used |
| Generating or editing an image | 0.14 to 2.08 credits per image, depending on your plan and the model and size the site allows |
| Animating an image into a short video | 0.80 to 25.60 credits per clip, depending on your plan and the model, length and resolution the site allows |
Images are added on top of the turn that asked for them, so a message that writes a section and generates two pictures is charged for both.
A chat turn has no flat price. A one-line copy change and a full page build run on the same rate and land on very different numbers, and you can read the real figure for any finished message from its Info row. See How work is sized.
What does not spend credits
Reading files, browsing your project, previewing, publishing and hosting are all free. So is everything the dashboard does: searching, moving projects between folders, inviting members, connecting a domain.
Running out of credits stops you building. It does not take your published site down.
Your plan changes the rate
The same work costs a different number of credits depending on the plan the workspace is on.
| Plan | Credit rate |
|---|---|
| Free | $0.25 per credit |
| Starter | $0.25 per credit |
| Pro | $0.50 per credit |
| Enterprise | $0.25 per credit |
A Pro credit is worth twice a Starter credit, and costs twice as much. Identical work bills half as many credits on Pro as it does on Starter. That is why Starter and Pro both show 100 included credits at $25 and $50: the credit counts match, the work they buy does not.
When credits come back
On a paid plan the subscription allowance resets at the start of each calendar month, and the balance card names the date: Resets on Sep 1, 2026. Modulify emails the workspace owner when it happens.
The reset refills the allowance. It does not clear top up credits, which carry on until they are spent.
On the Free plan credits do not reset. A new account starts with 30 credits and is given 5 more a day for the next four days, reaching 50 in total. Each top up lands 24 hours after the one before it, counted from the moment your account was created rather than at a fixed hour of the day. After the fourth one the free allowance stops growing, and nothing refills it. Accounts created before the daily top up existed already hold all 50.
While those four days are still running, and once your spending has started drawing on the free allowance itself, the balance card swaps Credits reset monthly on paid plans for a countdown to the next top up, reading 5 free credits arrive in 7 hours. The wait is rounded down to whole hours, so the last stretch reads 5 free credits arrive in 1 hour and anything shorter reads 5 free credits arrive in less than an hour. In the plan and credits window that same sentence replaces the Next reset label together with the figure beside it, so while the countdown is running the words Next reset are not in the window at all. Top up credits are spent ahead of the allowance, so while a credit pack or a Share and Earn reward is paying for your work the allowance is untouched. Until it is drawn on, whether because you have spent nothing at all or because top up credits are covering the work, the card keeps the plain Credits reset monthly on paid plans.
To get a recurring allowance you either move to a paid plan or buy a credit pack. Packs stay available on Free throughout, before and after the four days.
Stopping at zero
A turn is charged after it runs, so its real cost is only known at the end. While the turn runs your balance is watched, and the moment the work would take it past zero the run is stopped rather than carried on. Whatever it had already written is kept, and the reply stays in the thread under an amber Out of AI credits notice reading No AI credits remaining. Top up to continue.
Your balance never goes below zero. You are charged only what it could cover, and the small amount spent between the last check and the stop is absorbed rather than billed, so nothing is carried into the next month and nothing is held against a later top up. Every card and counter reads 0 until a reset, a daily top up or a credit pack puts you back in credit.
Running out
The strip above the chat box shows no balance while you have credits. When the balance reaches zero it reads 0 credits next to an Upgrade now button when you own the Free workspace that pays for the project, or Add credits in every other case, and sending a message opens that flow instead of building. Messages already queued stop rather than being dropped, and the queue reads Paused because the workspace is out of credits.
On Free, while the daily top ups are still running, the strip carries the countdown under that balance too, as 5 free credits arrive in 7 hours.
Creating a new site from a prompt is refused the same way, with Your workspace has no AI credits left, so the site cannot be generated. Top up to continue.
If you are not the owner, Add credits is disabled with the tooltip Only the workspace owner can add credits.
From an AI client over MCP
get_workspace_credits returns the reconciled balance and get_workspace_credit_usage shows the recent spend day by day, which is how an assistant can answer where your credits went rather than only how many are left. Both need workspaces:read, ticked by default.
Buying credits is not available over MCP, because it charges a card.
See MCP tools.
Next
- Buy credits walks through a top up.
- Share and Earn earns credits by inviting people, with no card involved.
- Plans compares the included allowances.
- How work is sized explains what makes one turn cost more than another.