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Pricing
Buy a fixed number of credits and spend them on AICL usage. Paid credits do not expire. The purchase options below are a review proposal.
1. Pricing model
USD $1 buys 100 AICL credits; one credit has a purchase value of $0.01. Buy a fixed number of credits and use them as needed. There is no rolling pool or automatic subscription renewal.
Usage credits = API cost × 1.5 ÷ value per credit, rounded up to a whole credit per billable usage record.
For USD costs: round up cost × 150. For CNY costs: round up cost × 1.5 ÷ ¥0.072. The accounting conversion is ¥7.2 per USD, not a live exchange-rate quote.
API cost is calculated from recorded provider usage and the configured model tariff, including input, output, cache and asset-generation charges. The multiplier applies when spending credits; $10 buys 1,000 credits without a top-up bonus.
Rounding matters: an API cost of $0.01 becomes 1.5 credits and is charged as 2 credits, with a purchase value of $0.02. The final charge can exceed exactly 1.5 times API cost. Zero-cost operations are not charged under this formula; positive-cost records cost at least one credit. A task may contain multiple separately rounded records.
2. Credit packs
One-time packs for the planned overseas beta. This review draft does not accept payments. All packs use the same conversion without volume discounts or additional top-up gifts.
| Pack | Base price (USD) | AICL credits |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $10 | 1,000 |
| Standard | $20 | 2,000 |
| Extended | $50 | 5,000 |
| Frequent use | $100 | 10,000 |
Custom top-ups: planned at $10–$100 in whole-dollar increments; credits = USD amount × 100. For example, $15 buys 1,500 credits and $35 buys 3,500.
New accounts start with zero credits. There are no signup or top-up bonus credits in this paid beta. Purchase credits before using features that incur API costs. Purchased credits do not expire with time.
Prices are denominated in USD. Tax-inclusive or tax-exclusive display and local-currency checkout remain to be confirmed (待定). The final total, taxes and credit quantity must be shown before payment. Taxes do not buy extra credits. Credits cannot be transferred between users or withdrawn as cash; eligible purchase refunds are handled separately.
Your first successful paid credit top-up permanently unlocks AICL Pro. No recurring membership fee is required, and exhausting your credits does not expire Pro. Billable usage still consumes credits. Creators control export, community publication/download and source-sharing permissions and Free/Pro access; Pro does not override their licences. If all qualifying payments are fully refunded or reversed, the related Pro access is handled as required by Paddle rules and applicable law. Otherwise, Pro does not expire with time or credit consumption.
3. Usage and charges
The planned paid-beta models are DeepSeek, Seedream and Meshy 6 Lite. Usage examples use the provider tariffs configured as of 18 October 2026 and the new $1 = 100 credit rule. Each example is one settlement record; production activation is pending.
| Example | API cost basis | AICL credits |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek Flash: 10,000 uncached input tokens + 2,000 output tokens | ¥0.036 at the configured peak tariff | 1 |
| Seedream Lite: one 2K output | ¥0.22 | 5 |
| Seedream Pro: one 1K output, at most one reference image | ¥0.30 | 7 |
| Seedream Pro: one 2K output, at most one reference image | ¥0.60 | 13 |
| Meshy 6 Lite: one 2K retexture request | 10 Meshy API credits × $0.02 = $0.20 | 30 |
Meshy API credits and AICL credits are different units. Extra reference images, longer context, generated outputs, additional calls and retries can change the total. A complete creation task may include planning, coding, image generation and texturing, so these examples are not promises of a fixed number of completed projects.
For illustration, two text requests charged at one credit each, one image request charged at five credits and one retexture request charged at 30 credits total 37 credits. Builds, extra calls or retries that incur further API costs increase that total.
All billable AICL API usage consumes credits, including usage incurred before a task fails, is cancelled or is retried. A failed final result does not automatically cancel costs already incurred. An operation with no billable API cost is not charged under this formula. Duplicate or incorrect deductions can be investigated and corrected, and your mandatory rights remain intact.
The rate schedule applicable to future usage must be disclosed before that usage. Paid-credit non-expiry does not promise that every model's usage rate will remain unchanged. Feature availability also depends on the creator’s sharing settings and the applicable content licence.
4. Purchases and support
Purchases are planned through Paddle as merchant of record. Checkout must show the selected amount, credit quantity and applicable taxes before payment. The proposed custom top-up and credit delivery still require payment integration and testing.
Refunds follow the Refund Policy, Paddle rules and applicable law. AICL offers no additional universal unconditional refund guarantee. Operator: MingHan Li. Support: 1509310650@qq.com.
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