Credits

Credits buy AI generation: turning a prompt or a photo into a 3D model, retexturing one you already made, rebuilding one from a described change, and generating or editing images. Once your free monthly questions to the site assistant run out, they can also pay for its answers, one per answer, if you choose. A new account starts with 5. The studio at /in/design works exactly as it does everywhere else and every action costs the same number of credits; only the packs and plans are priced in rupees. This page lists what every operation costs, where more credits come from, what happens when you run out, and whether they expire.

What a credit buys#

3D generation add-ons#

The base cost is 1 for fast draft, 2 for hi-fi. Everything below is added on top of it:

• Text prompt, fast draft, standard mesh, 2k texture: 1 credit.
• Photo, fast draft, standard mesh: 2 credits.
• Text prompt, hi-fi, ultra mesh: 4 credits.
• Photo, hi-fi, ultra mesh, 8k texture, refinement pass: 9 credits.

Where credits come from#

Plans in India are generation credits only. They do not include a print credit.

Requesting credits#

There is no checkout in India yet, so credits are requested rather than bought on the page. Card payment in rupees is not live yet.

1. 1
   Choose a pack or plan

   On /in/pricing, press the button on the pack or plan you want. The Request credits form below the cards shows what you chose and its rupee price.

2. 2
   Send the request

   Give your name, the email of your X3D account, a phone number if you like, and any notes. Nothing is charged when you send it.

3. 3
   Pay, then the credits are added

   We reply by email with how to pay. Once you have paid, the credits are added to the account with that email.

Do they expire?#

No. Generation credits are a plain running balance with no expiry date and no monthly reset. Credits added for a pack or a plan join whatever you already hold, so an unused month carries forward, and stopping a plan does not take away credits you already have.

Running out#

The studio warns you first. On an account without a paid plan, an amber N credits remaining appears once the balance is down to 2. When a run costs more than you hold, the button area reads Insufficient credits, you have X but need Y, and Generate is disabled. Both notes link to /in/pricing. Signed out, the studio offers Sign up for 5 free credits instead, or a plan from ₹1,679 a month.

Credits are checked and deducted before the engine is called, so an underfunded request is refused rather than half run. The refusal is machine readable and tells you exactly how short you are.

{
  "error": "no_credits",
  "message": "This generation costs 4 credits but you only have 2. Add credits to continue.",
  "needsPayment": true,
  "creditsRequired": 4,
  "creditsAvailable": 2
}

Refunds#

Because the charge happens first, a failure has to give the credits back. These do:

• A generation that returns an error or throws is refunded on the spot and its history row is marked failed, and History says failed, credit refunded.
• A generation whose model was made but could not be saved is cancelled and refunded, rather than handing you a link that expires.
• A generation still unfinished after 60 minutes is expired by a sweep, marked failed, and refunded.
• A retexture that fails after the credit was taken is refunded the same way.
• An image job that fails, or finishes with no picture, gives its credit back.
• A site assistant answer paid with a credit that fails to arrive gives the credit back.

Some requests are refused before they would cost anything: a prompt the moderation check rejects, a photo of a flat picture, and an image file that cannot be read. None of them spends a credit.

Limits per account: 20 generations an hour, 40 image generations and 40 image edits an hour, 30 retextures an hour, and 120 exact model edits an hour.

Every refund is written against an idempotency key derived from the generation id, so the live request and the sweep can race without paying out twice. A refund restores generation credits only: it never changes your plan.

Checking your balance#

Your balance is attached to your session and read again on every request, so it is current on any signed in page without a refresh. The generation API also returns creditsCharged on every successful run. There is one balance per account, keyed on your email address: a generation started from the Chrome extension spends the same credits as one started on the site.