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# How AI Credits Work

## AI Credits Enable Power Users

AI Credits let you use even more AI powered features to a listing than your plan already includes. About 9 out of 10 people never need them. They are for power users who want to pile on extra bells and whistles into their listings.

### The basics

* Every plan includes a set amount of AI features per video: photo edits, virtual staging, and video effects (VFX).
* That amount covers most people with room to spare.
* Want more? Add it anytime with AI Credits.
* 1 credit = 1 extra photo edit or 1 extra video effect. You only buy credits if you go past what your plan includes.

### Who this is really for

The pro stacking five effects on one video. The photographer staging or editing every shot in a 40 photo listing. If that is you, credits let you keep going as far as you want.

### What costs a credit

Only after you use up the free amount in your plan:

* An extra photo edit (this includes virtual staging).
* An extra video effect (VFX).

Each costs 1 credit. Same price for both.

### What is always free

* Everything your plan already includes.
* Unlimited revisions to photos that you used a Photo Edit on.
* Reordering, reusing, or clearing a video effect. Only adding a new effect, or regenerating one, costs a credit.

### What comes with each plan

Here is the free AI usage built into every plan, plus the price of an extra credit if you ever want more.

| Plan      | Billing | Videos included | Included photo edits (free) | Included VFX per video (free) | Extra credit (each) |
| --------- | ------- | --------------- | --------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ------------------- |
| Essential | Monthly | 3               | 15                          | 3                             | $0.89               |
| Essential | Annual  | 25              | 125                         | 3                             | $0.79               |
| Growth    | Monthly | 10              | 80                          | 6                             | $0.69               |
| Growth    | Annual  | 100             | 800                         | 6                             | $0.59               |
| Pro       | Monthly | 20              | 200                         | 8                             | $0.49               |
| Pro       | Annual  | 200             | 2000                        | 8                             | $0.39               |

The bigger your plan, the cheaper each extra credit gets.

#### How credits work

* You buy credits up front, in one purchase. No subscription.
* Run out? Buy more and keep going.
* See your balance anytime in the Manage Plan screen.

#### Good to know

* Credits do not expire while your plan is active.
* If you cancel, leftover credits stay good until the end of your current period.
* On a team or company account, credits are shared from one pool.
* On a monthly plan, your included AI features reset each month.
* On an annual plan, you get the whole year in one bucket. It does not refill each month, so you can use it when your listings pick up.
* Video credits and AI Credits are different. Video credits make videos. AI Credits add extra VFX or photo edits on top of what each video already includes.

### Still have questions?

[Contact us](https://www.autoreelapp.com/contact) anytime.