> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://captions.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Understanding Credits
> Understand how AI usage works across plans.
Every AI feature, generating images, videos, sounds, music, voiceovers, text prompt to videos, and AI Edits, deducts usage from a customer's allocated credit limit. Credit limits vary by customer plan.
### **Credit Allotment By Captions Plan**
Credits are refreshed every month with the current month's usage meter shown in Account Settings. On iOS, you can view your credits history to see a detailed breakdown of how your credits have been used.
| Captions Plan | Plan Price | Credits |
| :----------------------------- | :--------- | :------------------------ |
| Free | \$0 | 60 - 200 (do not refresh) |
| Basic (formerly Pro / Starter) | \$9.99 | 200 |
| Max | \$24.99 | 500 |
| Scale | \$69.99 | 1400 |
| Scale 2x | \$139.99 | 2800 |
| Scale 4x | \$279.99 | 5600 |
The number of videos customers can generate each month will depend on what generative AI features are added into each video.
### **AI Usage by Feature**
The table below details the credit cost by AI feature.
| **Usage Rate** | |
| :------------------------------------------------------ | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Project Creation Costs** | **Costs Based On Average Use** |
| [Prompt to Video](/help/docs/project/mirage-edit) | 16 credits every 6 seconds |
| [AI Edit](/help/docs/project/ai-edit) | 10 - 40 credits\* |
| [AI Creator](/help/docs/project/ai-creator) | 1 credit per 1 second |
| [AI Ads](/help/docs/project/ai-ads) | 1 credit per 1 second |
| AI Skits | 1 credit per 1 second |
| | |
| **Project Add-Ons** | |
| Actor re-generation | 40 credits |
| AI Edit Clip Style Change | 1 credit |
| GenAI Image | 1 - 3 credits |
| GenAI Video | 1 - 20 credits |
| GenAI Music | 1 - 2 credits |
| | |
| [**Chat-Based Editing**](/help/docs/timeline/co-editor) | 2 credits per user message
1 credit per action taken
+ Additional credits for Gen AI requests |
**\*Actual credit costs vary depending on video duration, model selection, and algorithm choices.**
| Model-Specific costs | Feature | Credits |
| ----------------------------------- | ------- | ------------- |
| Flux 1.1 | Image | 2 credits |
| Flux 2 | Image | 1 credit |
| Flux Pro Kontext | Image | 2 credits |
| Flux Pro Kontext Max | Image | 3 credits |
| GPT 4o Image | Image | 2 credits |
| Ideogram v1 | Image | 2 credits |
| Ideogram V3 | Image | 2 credits |
| Imagen 3 | Image | 2 credits |
| Imagen 3 Fast | Image | 1 credit |
| Imagen 4 | Image | 2 credits |
| Imagen 4 Fast | Image | 1 credit |
| Nano Banana Pro | Image | 6 credits |
| Nano Banana 2 | Image | 3 credits |
| Photon | Image | 1 credit |
| Photon Flash | Image | 1 credit |
| Recraft V3 | Image | 2 credits |
| Recraft V4 | Image | 2 credits |
| Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large | Image | 3 credits |
| ElevenLabs Music | Music | 13 credits |
| Lyria 3 Pro | Music | 3 credits |
| Soundraw | Music | 2 credit |
| Google Veo 3 (4 seconds) | Video | 64 credits |
| Google Veo 3 Audio (4 seconds) | Video | 64 credits |
| Google Veo 3 Fast (6 seconds) | Video | 36 credits |
| Google Veo 3 Audio Fast (6 seconds) | Video | 36 credits |
| Google Veo 3.1 (4s) | Video | 64 credits |
| Google Veo 3.1 Audio (4s) | Video | 64 credits |
| Google Veo 3.1 Audio Fast (6s) | Video | 36 credits |
| Google Veo 3.1 Fast (6s) | Video | 36 credits |
| Google Veo 2 | Video | 100 credits |
| Grok Imagine Video | Video | 11 credits |
| Hailuo 2.3 Fast | Video | 8 credits |
| Happy Horse | Video | 28 credits |
| Kling 1.6 | Video | 40 credits |
| Kling 2.1 | Video | 140 credits |
| MAGI Distilled | Video | 16 credits |
| Minimax | Video | 56 credits |
| Pika 2.2 | Video | 20 credits |
| Ray 2 | Video | 80 credits |
| Ray 2 Flash | Video | 8 credits |
| Seedance 2.0 | Video | 61 credits |
| Seedance 2.0 Fast | Video | 48 credits |
| Sora 2 | Video | 20 credits |
| Seedream v4 | Video | 40 credits |
| Audio Isolation | Sound | 5 credits/min |
| Sound Effects | Sound | 13 credits |
| Stable Audio Open | Sound | 1 credit |
| MMAudio | Sound | 4 credits |
### Credit Rollover & Top-Ups
Eligible subscribers can carry unused monthly credits into the next billing period instead of losing them at renewal.
**Eligibility**
Rollover is available on Basic and above (Basic, Max, Scale, Scale2x, Scale4x, Business, Teams).
**How it works**
Your total credit balance is capped at **3× your monthly allowance** (current month + up to 2× in rollover).
Changes to you plan may impact existing credits.
* **Downgrade:** Balance is immediately reduced to the new plan’s cap. Any excess credits are forfeited.
* **Upgrade:** No change to existing credits.
* **Cancellation:** All remaining credits are forfeited at the end of the billing period.
Top-up credits (available only to existing Teams/Business customers and Scale 4x users) carry over if unused.
### **Frequently Asked Questions**
Credits renew monthly based on subscription date for customers on the Basic, Max, or Scale plan. Free users are granted a one-time allotment of credits.
Customers can upgrade to the next plan level to increase credit allotment if the monthly allotment has been reached before the refresh date.
It is not possible to buy individual credits. You can upgrade to the next plan level to increase credit amount.
Credits are used toward AI usage for each plan regardless of if the projected is exported or saved. Any generation using AI will use credits.