AI Credits
Purchase and manage credits to use AI-powered features in AVStackr.
What are Credits?
Credits power the AI features throughout AVStackr. Buy credits once and spend them across every AI-powered tool - no API keys or technical setup required.
What Credit Usage Means
Every credit you spend is manual work your team didn't do by hand - a schematic drawn, an estimate assembled, a summary written. When your credit usage goes up, it doesn't mean costs are getting away from you. It means more of your projects are running through AVStackr instead of through hours of manual entry. A high-usage month is a high-throughput month.
Credits are prepaid: you can never spend more than the credits you bought. Most features have a fixed price; the copilots and a few helpers are charged by the work in each request. Nothing runs without credits. If credits run out partway through a copilot message, the copilot stops cleanly and tells you where it stopped. The balance at the top of the page drops as soon as a charge lands.
Purchasing Credits
- Click the coin icon in the top navigation bar
- Select a credit package
- Complete the secure checkout
- Credits are added to your account immediately
Purchased credits expire 30 days after purchase. Each purchase starts its own 30-day timer.
Credit Costs by Feature
What each AI feature costs - and the manual work it replaces:
| Feature | Credits | The manual work it replaces |
|---|---|---|
| Schematics copilot | Charged by the work in each message: about 1 credit per 10K tokens read (0.1 when cached), 6 per 10K written; minimum 1 credit. | Drawing the signal-flow schematic in CAD |
| AVIP Assistant | Charged by the work in each message: about 1 credit per 10K tokens read (0.1 when cached), 6 per 10K written; minimum 1 credit. | Reading the project, drafting the email, and finding the products |
| AI Sales Engineer | ~5 per request | Hand-picking equipment and accessories from the catalog |
| AI product descriptions | 5 per product | Researching a product and writing its description |
| Connection metadata | 5 per product | Digging through spec sheets for inputs, outputs, and connectors |
| Executive summary | 10 per summary plus the proofreading pass by tokens (about 1 credit); first 3 free | Writing a client-ready project summary from scratch |
| Create with AI | 5 per run | Typing the project name, rooms, and scope by hand from notes or an RFP |
| Scope call notes | 50 per run | Running the whole scope call and writing up every room by hand |
| Purchase order import | 7.5 per document | Re-keying a supplier PO line by line |
| Photorealistic render | 5 per render | Mocking up a room visual for the client |
| Render revision | 3 per revision | Redoing the visual after a design change |
| Knowledge base answer (/kb) | 2 per answer | Searching manufacturer manuals and writing up the answer with its sources |
| Knowledge base search (MCP and API) | 1 per search that returns passages | Reading through manufacturer manuals to find the passage that answers a question |
| Semantic search | ~1 per search | Keyword-guessing through the product catalog |
| Product embeddings | 1 credit minimum per batch of products indexed; more only for very large catalogs | Setup - enables concept-based search across your catalog |
The AI calling and email tools also draw credits as you use them. Your live balance is always shown next to the coin icon.
Checking Your Balance
Your current credit balance is displayed in the top navigation bar next to the coin icon. You'll receive a warning when your balance is running low.