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How Photo Studio uses your AI credits

The studio shares your venue’s monthly AI budget with the chat assistant and the description writer. This is its slice.

The rule

A photo is only billed once it actually generates. If the provider fails or your phone drops before the request lands, nothing is deducted.

What each size costs

SizeCreditsUse it for
1K90Menu and social — invisible difference on a phone
2K100Your public website. The sensible default
4K130Print and very large screens

The price shows in the bottom bar before you tap Generate, so you can drop a size if your balance is thin.

Roughly: a 500-credit plan is five photos, 2,000 is around twenty, 8,000 about eighty — shared with whatever else uses AI that month.

Where your balance lives

Settings → AI. It shows your monthly allotment, what’s left, and a per-feature breakdown — the studio appears as three lines, one per size, so you can see exactly where the budget went. It also shows your reset date, which is your venue’s billing anniversary.

Running out

The Generate button still looks clickable, but the request stops before any AI work happens. You get a plain message — “You’re out of AI credits for this month” — and a Top up credits button. No photo, no charge.

Two ways forward:

  1. Buy a top-up pack. Top-up credits never expire and are only spent once the monthly balance is drained, so buying mid-month costs you nothing in unused allowance.
  2. Upgrade the monthly plan. Effective immediately; the new allotment applies from your next anniversary.

Or just pace it — choosing 1K over 4K saves 40 credits a photo with no visible difference on a menu.

When something fails

Credits are refunded automatically. A failed entry appears in your gallery (delete it if you like) and the credits return to the bucket they came from — monthly first, then top-up. No ticket, no waiting.