Credits & what things cost

Credits are what the AI spends to do work for you. Writing copy, designing an image, building a page, answering a customer, running a task — each one uses credits. This page gives you the real numbers, so you can plan instead of guess.

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What a credit is worth

That rate is the same however you get credits — included with your plan, bought as a top-up, or added automatically.

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What AI work costs

Most of what Crevio does for you is priced by the actual work done, not a flat fee per request. A one-line tweak to a headline costs a fraction of what building a full website costs, because it genuinely is less work. Two things drive the cost:

• How much work the job takes. Longer, more complex jobs cost more.
• Which AI model runs it. Heavier jobs use more capable, more expensive models.

Because of that, the exact cost of a piece of AI work is only known once it has run. Crevio doesn’t quote a price up front for open-ended work, and the assistant can’t tell you what it will cost before doing it. The exception is a premium image or video model: when Crevio suggests one, it tells you the credits it would take.

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Every message to the assistant costs credits

Talking to Crevio isn’t free. Every turn the assistant takes spends credits — including when it retries something, and including when it’s fixing its own mistake. This is worth knowing because it changes how you get value:

• A clear, specific request costs less than three rounds of clarification.
• Saying what you don’t want up front is cheaper than asking for a redo.
• Asking Crevio to remember a preference means you stop paying to repeat it.

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Images, video, and audio

Media is priced by exactly what you get back: per image, per second of video, per character of speech. A 10-second clip costs about twice a 5-second one, and a high-resolution upscale costs more than a small one. You can steer the price with how you ask:

• “A quick draft” uses a faster, cheaper model. Good for trying out ideas.
• No preference uses a balanced model that’s right for most work.
• “Best quality” uses the strongest model for the job, at a higher price. Save it for the final version.

Crevio won’t start an image, video, or audio job your balance can’t cover. In your usage breakdown, images, video, speech, and transcription each have their own line, so you can see which one your credits went to.

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What has a fixed price

Email lookups, phone calls and actions in your connected apps have set prices, because they’re paid per call to an outside service: Phone calls are charged on the real length of the call, rounded up to the next minute. A call with a more expensive voice or AI model can cost more per minute. Crevio caps a call’s length to the minutes your balance covers. An action in a connected app costs 2 credits, and more if it runs longer than 30 seconds. Most finish in a few seconds. Everything else the AI does for you, including browsing the web, carries no separate per-action fee. It’s covered by the cost of the AI work itself.

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What doesn’t cost credits

• Browsing your own dashboard, orders, customers, and analytics.
• Publishing, editing, or deleting things yourself by clicking around.
• Receiving payments from your buyers.
• Connecting or disconnecting an app, social account, or domain.

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Where to see your balance

Go to Settings → Billing. You’ll see your current balance and a breakdown of what credits have been spent on, so you can see where the AI’s effort is going.

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Topping up

If you run low before your plan renews, you can buy more without waiting.

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Automatic top-ups

Turn on auto top-up and Crevio refills your balance for you, so a long job doesn’t stop halfway.

• It triggers when your balance drops below 20 credits.
• It buys $20 of credits (1,000 credits) each time.
• It uses the card already on your account.

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When a job costs more than you had left

Crevio checks your balance before it starts something, but some work only reveals its full cost at the end — a long reply, a big research job. If a job finishes costing more than your balance, the difference is owed, not written off. It’s taken out of the next credits that reach your account, whether that’s a top-up or your plan’s monthly credits, so a top-up after a big job can show up smaller than you expected. A refunded top-up works the same way. Its credits come off your balance in proportion to the refund, so half the money back removes half the credits. If you already spent them, the difference is owed and taken out of the next credits that reach your account.

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When credits expire

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On the free plan

• You start with 100 credits when you sign up.
• Each month, your balance is topped up to 20 credits if it’s below that.

That’s a top-up, not a bonus: if you’re already above 20 credits, nothing is added, and if you’re at 5, you get 15. Bought credits are never taken away by this — if you’ve topped up and are sitting above the allowance, the monthly refresh simply skips you. On the free plan, account admins see a bar above every page with your remaining credits and a Subscribe link to the plans. It disappears once you subscribe or are on a trial.

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Earning credits by referring friends

The Refer and earn credits dialog in the sidebar has three tabs:

• Earn cash explains the affiliate program (see below).
• Invite friends gives you a personal invite link, and lets you invite people by email.
• Rewards shows how many friends have joined, the credits you’ve earned, and a progress bar to your next milestone at 1, 3, 5, 10 and 25 friends.

When a friend you invited finishes setting up their account, you get 500 credits and they get 250 credits. Referral credits are for bringing in new businesses, so some sign-ups don’t earn them:

• Inviting yourself, or someone who uses the same email address as a member of your account.
• A new account created on the same browser or computer as someone on your account.
• A sign-up with a temporary or throwaway email address.
• More than 5 friends finishing setup in one day, or more than 10 in 30 days. Friends past the limit can still join; they just don’t earn either of you credits.

Email invitations have a few limits:

• Up to 10 addresses in one go, and 20 people a day per person. Past that, share your link instead.
• Anyone who already has a Crevio account, or who was invited in the last 90 days, is skipped. Crevio doesn’t tell you which addresses were skipped or why.
• Every invitation has an unsubscribe link. Someone who uses it never receives another invitation from anyone, and their address will also be skipped.

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Earning cash as an affiliate

Referring friends earns credits. If you recommend Crevio to an audience, the affiliate program pays cash instead: 20% commission, for life, on every paying customer you refer. It covers their plan payments and their credit top-ups, there is no cap on how much you can earn, and you can follow your referrals in a live stats dashboard. The Earn cash tab has a calculator. Pick how many customers you refer and which plan they’re on to see what you could earn each month and each year. The figures are an estimate based on those choices, not a promise of earnings. Click Join the affiliate program to sign up. The program is also listed as Become an affiliate on the Rewards page.

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Limits that aren’t about credits

Some things are capped per day by your plan, separately from your credit balance. Having credits doesn’t raise these, and hitting one doesn’t spend credits. Phone calls also have anti-spam caps that apply on every plan: at most 3 call attempts to the same number in 24 hours, with a 3-hour gap between attempts.

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Things to know

• Crevio’s assistant can check your balance and where your credits went, but it can’t quote a price before doing the work. If it tells you something is free or promises a refund, that’s a mistake; check Settings → Billing.
• Cost follows the work, not the outcome. If a job runs and you don’t like the result, the work still happened and the credits were still spent. Asking for a change is a new, usually much smaller job.
• Your own app’s AI usage is billed separately and at cost. If Crevio built you an app that calls AI itself, that traffic goes through Crevio at the AI provider’s list price with no markup, capped at 25,000 credits per day per key by default.

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