How credits work
One credit balance pays for everything WebDIY does for your organization. Find out what uses credits, how they refill and what happens if you run out.
On this page
Your organization has one credit balance that everyone in it shares. It pays for WebDIY's work on your app when you send a message, for your app's computer while it runs and for hosting your published sites.
Where credits come from
There are two kinds. Plan credits come with your plan and refill on a schedule. Purchased credits are the ones an Owner or Admin buys. They're spent after your plan credits, and they don't expire.
| Plan | Price | Plan credits |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 500 a month, then 100 a day |
| Pro | $19.99 a month, or $199 a year | 2,000 a month, then 100 a day |
| Max | $199 a month | 20,000 a month, then 100 a day |
Plan credits refill like this:
- On Free, they reset to 500 at the start of each month (UTC).
- On Pro and Max, they reset to 2,000 or 20,000 when your plan renews. A yearly plan resets them each month.
- On any plan, if they run out before then, they come back up to 100 at midnight UTC each day.
- Unused plan credits don't carry over to the next month or period.
What uses credits
| What | How it's charged | Where you see it |
|---|---|---|
| Messages | The model's work on your message, at the model maker's price | Under each reply, and in Usage |
| Your app's computer | Its running time, about 21 credits an hour, charged when it stops | Usage |
| Hosting | Your published sites' requests and CPU time, billed each hour | Usage, and Analytics |
Messages
Each message is charged for the model calls it makes, at the model maker's price for the tokens it reads and writes. So a message that reads a lot of files or writes a lot of code uses more credits than a small change. On Pro and Max, the default model, Claude Sonnet 5.5, costs 250 credits per million tokens it reads and 1,250 per million it writes. On Free, the default, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, costs 37.5 and 150. If an Owner or Admin adds the organization's own Anthropic or OpenAI key, that maker's models run on the key. Their tokens cost no credits, though your app's computer still does.
Each reply shows how many credits its message used. If you press Stop, you're charged for the steps the model already ran.
Your app's computer
Each project gets its own computer, which runs while you build, preview or share it, at about 21 credits an hour. It pauses after 10 minutes without activity and starts again when someone opens the project. That includes opening it as a Viewer or through a preview link, and your organization pays for that time too.
Hosting
Published sites are charged for the requests they serve and the CPU time they use: about 37.5 credits per million requests, plus 2.5 credits per million milliseconds of CPU time, billed each hour. Analytics shows how many hosting credits each published site uses per day.
Keeping an eye on your credits
Each reply shows the credits its message used, and the credits card in the dashboard sidebar shows your current balance. For the full picture, open Usage. It lists every credit in and out for the last 92 days, by day, person, message and project, and you can export it as CSV.
What happens if you run out
New messages and new publishes won't go through, and a message that's already running stops once it has spent what's left. Your published sites keep serving, and your projects and their files stay as they are.
To carry on, wait for your daily top-up, ask an Owner or Admin to buy credits, or upgrade your plan.
Buy credits
Owners and Admins can buy credits on the Billing page.
| You pay | You get |
|---|---|
| $5 | 400 credits |
| $10 | 800 credits |
| $25 | 2,000 credits |
| $50 | 4,000 credits |
| $100 | 8,000 credits |
Like all purchased credits, they don't expire, and they're spent after your plan credits.
Upgrading or downgrading
- An upgrade takes effect right away. You pay for the rest of the current billing period, and your plan credits rise to the new plan's monthly credits, scaled to the share of the period that's left. Say you move from Pro to Max with half the period left: your plan credits go up to 10,000. An upgrade never lowers your credits.
- A downgrade takes effect at the end of the billing period.