AI Generation Costs: Credits, Free Previews and Failed Tasks

Your practical workflow

1. Choose the exact model, output size, count and other relevant settings.
2. Read the final credit quote and budget for revisions before submitting.
3. Check the final task state and credit record rather than treating a slow task as a failure.

Read a quote as a set of settings

Image costs can depend on model, size, quality, reference count and number of outputs. Video costs can depend on model, duration, resolution, audio and source-video duration for applicable tasks. A model name without settings is not a complete quote.

Use the current pricing page and final workspace quote. This article does not convert credits into a fixed currency price because the purchase package and current offer are separate from task calculation.

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Calculated using the site's pricing function; pricing version: 2026-10-28. Image examples have no reference image. These are configuration examples, not invoices. Check supported settings and the final workspace quote.

Understand what a failed task means

Credits are reserved when a paid task is submitted. Confirmed failures return that task's original credits. A pending job, an unusually slow response or a completed result that you dislike is not automatically a confirmed failure. Check the task's recorded status and credit history.

An uncertain submission should be checked using the existing task record before trying again. Repeatedly clicking generate can create separate paid attempts; a browser refresh is not a refund request.

Budget for usable results

Record total credits spent and the number of outputs you can actually use. For example, spending 30 credits across attempts and accepting two images gives 15 credits per usable image. These numbers illustrate the calculation; they are not a current model price or a measured success rate.

The free H3 form does not issue account credits. Its shared daily allowance is three submissions per network and fifty sitewide per UTC day, with one admitted task at a time. It cannot be used to pay for another model or an image task.

A reusable budgeting brief

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Review the result before another attempt

Before submitting, compare the quoted settings with your intended task. Afterwards, keep the task ID and inspect its final state and credit ledger if a charge needs checking.

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