AIGE Credits Explained: What Things Cost and What's Free

Nobody likes opaque AI pricing. You upload a photo, hit generate, and a bill appears somewhere you can't see it, coded in tokens, compute units, or whatever the provider calls its own internal math this month. AIGE runs on one plain currency instead: credits. One number, shown before you spend it, the same everywhere in the app (the character studio, the fitting room, the video panel).

This is the full breakdown: what's free, what things actually cost, what each subscription tier gets you, and what happens when a generation fails partway through.

What you get for free

Every new account starts with 25 credits, no card required. That's enough to try character generation, a scene, and a short video before you decide whether any of it is worth paying for.

After that, free accounts get 5 credits every day, refreshed automatically at the start of each day. They don't stack: skip a day and you don't get 10 the next, you just get the same 5. They're also spent before any paid credits sitting in your account, so a paid balance only starts draining once that day's free amount is gone. It's a small amount on purpose: enough to keep exploring a feature or test a prompt tweak without ever touching your card, not enough to run a full content calendar on.

What things actually cost

Credit costs are set per action, and they scale with what the generation actually requires: resolution, model quality, and for video, duration. A quick standard image costs far less than a longer, premium-quality video. Here's a representative slice across the catalog:

Notice the pattern: cost goes up with resolution (a Pro-tier image costs almost twice a standard one) and with how much the model has to render (video jumps in cost between Fast and Pro quality even at the same length). None of that is arbitrary: it tracks the actual compute behind each generation.

One honest line, since it's easy to miss until you hit it: video costs a lot more than images, everywhere in AI generation, not just here. Rendering several seconds of motion, frame after frame, is a fundamentally bigger job than producing one still frame, and every provider in this space prices it that way. Credits don't hide that difference behind a flat subscription fee that quietly caps how much video you can actually make. Instead they put a number on it, up front, so you can see exactly what you're spending before you commit to a longer or higher-quality clip.

The four subscription tiers

If daily credits aren't enough, four paid tiers add a monthly credit pool on top, each priced to stretch further than the last:

Bigger tiers stretch your money further per credit, and unlock generation modes the free tier doesn't have: higher resolutions, premium models, longer video durations. If you mostly generate a handful of images a week, Spark covers that without asking you to pay for headroom you won't use. If video is your main output, the credit cost per clip above makes it obvious how fast Spark or Forge will run out, and Nova or Cosmos becomes the honest fit. Pick the size that matches how often you actually generate, not the biggest number on the page.

What happens when a generation fails

Generation involves a queue, a provider, and a network in between. Sometimes a job fails after you've already been charged: a provider error, a timeout, an upload that never lands. When that happens, AIGE refunds it automatically. Every failure path restores the exact credits that were spent, back into the same pool they came from. Daily credits go back to your daily balance, paid credits go back to your paid balance, and if a free voucher covered the job, that voucher comes back too. You don't file a support ticket for a failed generation and you don't have to notice it happened. The balance just corrects itself.

How to see the cost before you generate

You don't have to do this math yourself. Open the generation panel and look above the Generate button: it tells you exactly how many credits that specific generation will use, for the model, quality, and duration you've currently selected, before anything is spent. Switch from Fast to Pro, extend the duration, bump the resolution, and the number updates instantly. There's no separate pricing calculator to check first and no guessing after the fact.

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Compare the tiers side by side, or just start on the free daily credits and see how far they get you: check pricing and credits. If you're deciding which video model fits your budget, we compared Kling, Veo, and Seedance head to head. And if you're generating through code instead of the UI, here's how AIGE plugs into Claude via MCP, and the same credits and refund rules apply there too.