AIGE Credits Explained: What Each Generation Costs

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.

For model settings and limitations, read the Nano Banana image guide, Veo video guide and Seedance video guide. Use the video cost comparison to plan a test, then check the current quote in the studio.

What is free, and what needs credits

Creating an account, browsing examples and planning a creation are free. New accounts receive no signup credits, daily free allowance or API-key bonus. To generate images or video, choose a paid plan with enough credits for the model you want to use.

Existing paid and bonus balances are preserved. If you already have credits, they remain available under the account's model and plan limits. Creating another API key does not add credits.

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:

These are representative configured rates, not a promise that every model is available on every plan. Higher resolutions and some video models require a higher tier. The generation picker shows the current availability and quote.

Notice the pattern: cost goes up with resolution (the selected image model and resolution change the quote) 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

Four paid tiers provide a monthly credit pool, each priced to stretch further than the last:

Bigger tiers stretch your money further per credit, and unlock additional generation modes and plan limits: higher resolutions, premium models, longer video durations. If you mostly generate a handful of images a week, Starter 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 Starter or Pro will run out, and Premier or Max 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. Paid credits return to your paid balance. If a legacy daily balance or voucher covered the job, that same source is restored; new accounts receive no daily allowance or signup voucher. 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.

Quick answers

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Compare the tiers side by side and choose enough credits for your first creation: 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.