Credit, as a unit of account
A credit is an internal unit a customer buys in advance and spends on work. It is not a currency and it is not comparable between vendors, because the amount of production a credit represents is set by each vendor and is rarely published beside the price. As of 2026-09-12.
| What a page states | What it lets a reader compute | What is missing |
|---|---|---|
| Credits per second of output | The cost of a season, directly | The cost of a revision |
| Credits per generation | The cost, after counting generations | The clip count, without a stated length |
| A monthly plan | The cost of access | How much work the plan covers |
| A credit pack | The cost of the pack | How many credits a minute consumes |
Inclusion rule. Four pricing shapes, judged only by what a reader can calculate without an account. No vendor figures appear in this table. Order. From the shape permitting a direct calculation to the shape permitting none.
1A credit is only a budget when it has a denominator
Twenty thousand credits is a number with no meaning attached. Twenty thousand credits at one credit per second of finished picture is five and a half hours of delivered output, which is a figure a producer can compare with a release schedule.
The denominator is the part most pages leave out. Without it, the cost of an instalment is a sales conversation rather than a multiplication.
2Credits hide price changes and tier boundaries
Because the unit belongs to the vendor, the amount of work a credit buys can change without the price changing. A reader comparing two vendors by credit price is comparing two different units with the same name.
That is not a criticism of the model, which makes metering simple. It is the reason this file records the unit a rate is attached to rather than the number of credits in a pack.
3Two rates are more informative than one
Where a vendor prices a draft pass below a delivery pass, the pricing describes a workflow: generate roughly, look, approve, then spend. A single rate says nothing about review and may still be cheaper in total.
Neither shape prices the second attempt, which is where most of a season's cost actually sits. That question has to be asked directly.
4Where these figures come from
A definition kept for this register: the term, and what vendors state about it, each figure read on 2026-09-12. The tools themselves are on the register. Related: Show canon, Lip sync.