How are credits used for each tool?

Credits (aka Acorns) represent the number of seconds used during rendering. This includes all footage created, whether it is used in your final export or not, including re-renders and edits. Credits are used for every second that is generated on Autopilot and our video editors.

Each Autopilot model has its own credit system. Total costs for Storyboards and Clips are displayed before you create a video. To get an idea of costs, we have a sliding calculator on the Pricing page below the subscriptions to demonstrate pricing.

After your full Autopilot video is generated, you can re-render individual clips. We offer one free render for every minute of video that's generated with Autopilot which you can use to re-generate clips. After these credits are used, you'd be charged for re-generations, with the costs listed next to the re-generation button (🔄).

Each Text-to-Video model has its own credit system, and generating starting images for clips uses credits.

To locate the credit value of a model, you can hover over the Text-to-Video models on the Manual Video creation page.

Each Frame-by-Frame model, including Custom models, uses 1 credit per second. Image generation costs 0.1 credits for every 4 images.

💡 Important: For example, a 4-minute music video would use 240 credits by default. If you re-render 25% of the video, that adds 60 credits, bringing the total to 300 credits.

📎 Halfway through a project and need to get more credits? Have no fear, check out this article about Top Ups.