# Credits and allowances

> Free accounts get a monthly allowance in uses; paid accounts spend credits. What each covers.

How AI use is metered depends on your plan.

## Free accounts

A monthly allowance counted in **uses**, not credits:

| Allowance | Covers |
| --- | --- |
| Diagram generations | Drawing and editing with AI |
| Assistant turns | A pooled monthly count across AI surfaces |

There is also a platform-wide daily ceiling. On a busy day the free allowance
can be temporarily unavailable even if your own monthly count is not exhausted.

## Paid accounts

Paid plans spend **credits**. Each action reserves an estimate up front and
settles to the actual cost when it completes.

> [!IMPORTANT]
> A failed or abandoned action is not free. The work was performed, so it
> settles at what it cost. Cancelling a long generation part-way saves only the
> work not yet done.

## Organisation caps

An organisation can set per-member caps so one person cannot spend the shared
pool. Caps are visible to the member.

## Where to look

**Dashboard → Licensing & Billing** shows your balance or remaining allowance,
and what has been spent. Organisation-wide usage is under the organisation's
credits page.