Credits for end users
Choose the workspace you want to configure, then follow the steps below.
What it does
Charge your users by what their usage actually costs — 10,000 credits to $1 of Pickaxe usage — and set your own rate above or below that, including selling credit top-ups directly.
Before this
An expansion. Usage was metered in uses — one input, one use — which stayed flat however long or expensive the interaction actually was. Credits added a second system that tracks the real cost.
Why it matters
Flat subscriptions break the moment one user does fifty times the work of another. Credits keep the heavy users profitable without punishing the light ones.
How it works
Credits and uses are two alternative billing systems for your end users. A workspace runs one or the other, switched in Settings, and never both at once.
- Uses
- One user input equals one use. Simple to explain, but the AI cost behind each interaction varies with the length and complexity of the conversation.
- Credits
- Users pay for what they consume, which tracks the real cost of each interaction much more closely.
- The base rate
- 10,000 credits is $1 of Pickaxe usage.
- Your rate
- Set your own credits-per-dollar above or below that. Selling $10 of credits against $5 of real usage keeps the difference as revenue.
The reason to move is a heavy-usage cohort. On a flat subscription, one user doing fifty times the work of another is absorbed entirely by your margin; on credits, that user pays for the difference and the light users stop subsidising them.