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The forge’s billing rule fits in a sentence: everything is free until you take the dataset out, then it’s 1 credit per kept episode, exactly once.

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What’s free

Uploading and health checks. Sampling. Planning. Runs and renders, including playground splices and described changes. Reviews, confirm and overrule cost nothing, so you can grade honestly instead of strategically.

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What bills

Delivery. When you export (or publish) a campaign, every kept episode entering that delivery that has never been billed on the campaign debits 1 credit, atomically, before anything is exported:
  • An episode bills at most once, ever, re-delivering after new keeps charges only the additions; re-affirming, toggling verdicts, or re-exporting never double-bills.
  • Insufficient balance returns 402 and changes nothing, top up and retry the same call. detail starts with insufficient_credits:need=N and appends pointers to where you buy more: insufficient_credits:need=N:checkout=/api/billing/credits/checkout:packs=/api/billing/credits/packs.
  • Failures fail closed: if the wallet can’t be reached, delivery refuses rather than exporting unledgered data.
The exported archive and its download only ever contain billed episodes.

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Credits

Credits are the same wallet as the rest of Alakazam (your balance is the ◍ chip in the forge topbar). Top-ups are one-time Stripe purchases from the chip; packs start at single credits so you can pay for exactly the episodes you keep. The wallet API is shared:
Keeping a described change in the playground follows the same principle on the scenario side: generation is free to try; a kept clip debits its credits when you accept it.

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Your account page

Balance, the full credit ledger (every grant and spend with its reason), your campaigns with measured usage, and daily generation charts live at forge.alakazam.gg/?view=account, also reachable from the avatar menu on any forge surface. Programmatic access: GET /api/billing/credits (balance), GET /api/billing/credits/history (ledger, newest first), GET /api/workbench/account/usage (daily counts and category totals), all with your bearer token.