How credits work
Credits meter premium models, reasoning tokens, workflow runs, Enhanced OCR, and compose renders.
Most actions in docAnalyzer are covered by your plan's flat allowance. Credits are the metered budget for the premium-tier actions: the ones whose cost depends on what you ran, not whether you ran something.
What credits cover
These actions deduct credits as you use them:
- Premium and reasoning models: every token going to a premium model deducts from credits. Reasoning models (the kind with explicit thinking-effort dials) consume thinking tokens too.
- Workflow runs: Summarizer, Data Extractor, Blueprint, Humanizer, SEO Metadata, Individual. Cost scales with dataset size and configuration.
- Enhanced OCR: 1 credit per page in the document, billed up-front when you trigger the workflow.
- Compose renders for some formats: most artifact generation is included; very large or unusual renders may meter.
What credits don't cover
These don't touch credits; they're covered by your plan's flat allowance:
- Document uploads.
- Storage (within plan quota).
- Automatic OCR.
- Baseline-model chats (the catalog of fast everyday models).
- Document search and retrieval.
- The document viewer, the info panel, and label/list operations.
- The API call layer itself.
If you hit a plan limit (uploads per month, chats per day, etc.), it's not a credit problem; see Plans and what credits buy you.
Monthly allowance, plus bundles
Two ways credits enter your account:
- Monthly allowance: your plan includes a monthly credit budget. It resets every month.
- One-time bundles: buy a bundle on top, sizes vary. Bundles don't expire: they stay in your account until used.
Allowance is consumed first; bundles fill in when allowance runs out. You'll see a clear breakdown in the credit dashboard.
What happens when credits run out
Depends on your plan:
- Free, Basic: premium-model and workflow actions stop until next month's allowance. You can buy a bundle to keep going.
- Pro, Team, Enterprise: overage handling can be configured (allow / cap / require approval) in billing settings.
You'll see warnings as you approach the limit; nothing is silently cut off.
Cost predictability
Workflows and Enhanced OCR show the estimated credit cost before you confirm ("this Summarizer run will use ~24 credits"). The estimate is accurate to within a few credits; actual cost depends on document size and content density.
For premium-model chats, the cost shows in the model picker (typical credits per turn at this model's price point) so you can pick deliberately.
What's next
- Read your credit usage: the per-account dashboard.
- Plans and credits: what allowance you get on each plan.
- Pick a model: choose between baseline and premium models.