Credits explained
How AI credits work in PageFork and what each action costs.
A credit is the unit of AI usage in PageFork. Every time you ask the AI to do something, credits are deducted from your balance. Credits are separate from hosting — you can pile up credits without paying for hosting, and vice versa.
What costs credits
Anything that runs the AI:
- Generating a new site.
- Editing an existing site (each Edit message).
- Discussing with PageFork about a site (each Discuss message — usually cheaper than Edit).
- Retrying a failed generation.
Things that don’t cost credits:
- Opening the editor.
- Using Undo / Redo.
- Switching preview devices or pages.
- Publishing or unpublishing.
- Viewing submissions, downloading CSVs, updating your profile.
How pricing is calculated
Cost is based on how much work the AI does — specifically, the number of tokens read and written. Tokens are a measure of text the AI processes. For reference:
- A short discuss message might be under 1 credit.
- A typical edit on a small site might be 1–3 credits.
- A full site generation from a prompt might be 5–20 credits depending on complexity.
- A large rewrite across many pages can be higher.
A minimum charge of 1 credit applies to any action that runs the AI, even a trivial one.
Seeing your balance
Your credit balance is shown:
- On the Billing page (→ Credits tab).
- Inside the chat composer when balance runs low.
When you hit 0 credits, you’ll see an Out of credits banner in chat and a modal when generating from the homepage.
Rolling over
Credits do not expire and roll over month to month. Buy in advance with confidence.
Refunds
We don’t offer refunds for used credits, but we do for failed generations that consumed credits — those are automatically credited back.