Understanding AI credits

What uses credits

• Generating an image with Tribe AI, at the cost shown next to the model; No background option adds the background-removal cost.
• Magic Edit's AI operations: Remove BG, Expand, Retouch, Magic erase, Angle, Lighting, Split into layers.
• Generating element images, and the frames drawn when you click Generate shots in a project started from an idea.

Where credits come from

Each plan includes a monthly allowance (the amounts are on the pricing page). Monthly credits reset on your billing date and do not roll over. Paid plans can buy top-up packs, which don't expire while the paid plan is active. On Studio, credits are pooled per seat for the whole workspace, and a workspace project always spends the workspace's pool, never your personal credits.

Seeing your balance

You can see your balance in three places: the credits button in the editor header (AI credits. Click to get more.), the bottom of the Tribe AI panel (Credits: 1,240), and Settings › Billing › AI credits. Billing also shows the workspace pool and when it renews. Your AI history shows the credits each generation used.

Running out

When a generation would cost more than you have, the app stops and offers the way forward: upgrade plans and top-ups, or for a workspace, the workspace owner can top up. Nothing else in the app is blocked; you can keep drawing, writing and exporting.