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Credits

Your credits go
further than you think.

We charge based on actual work done — not arbitrary checkpoints or time spent. Lower credit cost never means lower quality. The same model runs every task. A button tweak costs less because it requires less work, not because we put less into it.

How it works

1

You describe what you want

Type a task in plain English. The agent reads your codebase, understands the context, and figures out what needs to change.

2

The agent does the work

Code is written, edited, or debugged inside an isolated sandbox. The credit cost is based on how much reasoning and output was actually needed.

3

Credits deducted after completion

Credits are only charged once the task completes. The cost scales with complexity — a typo fix and a full auth system are charged very differently.

Build modes

Question mode

Ask the agent a question or request an explanation. No code is written. Charged at the lowest rate since it's mostly reading and reasoning.

Plan mode

Ask the agent to outline what it would do before making changes. Useful for reviewing a strategy before committing. Slightly more than a question, no edits made.

Build mode

The agent makes real changes to your codebase. This is where most credit usage happens. Cost scales with the scope of the task.

Typical credit costs

TaskModeCredits
Ask a question or explanationQuestion0.1 – 0.3
Make a plan onlyPlan0.2 – 0.4
Quick copy or color tweakBuild0.3 – 0.5
Button / spacing tweakBuild0.4 – 0.6
Fix a small bugBuild0.6 – 0.9
Add a new component or cardBuild0.8 – 1.2
Add a connector integrationBuild1.0 – 1.5
Add auth / loginBuild1.2 – 1.8
Build a landing pageBuild1.5 – 2.0
Add DB schema + CRUDBuild1.5 – 2.5
Add payments / subscriptionsBuild1.5 – 2.5
Full feature with testsBuild2.5 – 4.0
Multi-step production flowBuild4.0 – 6.0
Heavy refactor across many filesBuild6.0+

Estimated ranges based on average usage. Actual cost varies with codebase size, task complexity, and number of files changed.

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