Understanding Credits
How the credit system works — daily credits, the welcome bonus, monthly credits, and what edits actually cost.
How Credits Work
Every editing turn in Valmera — the first edit on a fresh upload, or any follow-up change — costs credits. Your balance is shown in the Studio at all times.
You see a single combined balance, but under the hood there are three pools: daily credits, a one-time welcome bonus, and monthly credits from your subscription. Valmera spends them in that order automatically — daily first, then bonus, then monthly — so nothing you pay for is touched until the free pools run out.
Subscribing does not replace the free pool: Plus and Pro subscribers keep the 20 daily credits on top of their monthly credits, and the daily pool is always spent first — so light days of tinkering usually never touch what you paid for.
Daily, Bonus & Monthly Credits
DAILY CREDITS
- 20 credits every day
- On every plan, including Free
- Reset daily — never accumulate
- Spent first
WELCOME BONUS
- 150 credits, granted once at sign-up
- No daily reset — they last until used
- Spent after daily credits run out
- Spent before monthly credits
MONTHLY CREDITS
- Set by your plan: Plus 800, Pro 2,400 per billing cycle
- On top of the 20 daily credits, which subscribers keep
- Wiped and refreshed on each billing renewal
- Do not accumulate month to month
- Spent last
What Edits & Generations Cost
An edit charges credits in proportion to the actual AI work in the turn. A simple change — trimming a section, recoloring captions, nudging the music volume — costs a few credits. A bigger multi-step edit — cutting silences across a long recording, captioning everything, and reframing to 9:16 in one request — costs more, because the agent does more work.
Generating media inside the edit is charged the same honest way: an AI image, an AI sound effect, or an AI video clip costs credits according to what that generation actually costs to produce — so a still image and a ten-second clip are not priced the same. See AI Generation & Imports for what can be generated. Media you upload, or that the agent pulls in from a link you paste, is not a generation and carries no generation cost.
There is no flat per-edit price and no per-model pricing table — you pay for the work actually done, and your balance updates after each turn. Exporting is not an edit: exports are renders of edits you have already made, so credits are consumed by the editing turns themselves.
Plans & Credit Allocations
Free
$0 · 20 daily credits + one-time 150-credit welcome bonus
Plus
$20/mo · 800 monthly credits + 20 daily
Pro
$50/mo · 2,400 monthly credits + 20 daily
See full plan details on the pricing page.
Tips to Maximize Credits
- Write clear briefs. A specific request produces a better first edit and reduces the number of follow-up messages needed. The getting-started guide has examples.
- Batch your changes. Instead of sending five separate follow-up messages, combine related tweaks into one message when possible.
- Get the structure right before the polish. Ask for the big cut first — silences, retakes, pacing — then style captions and effects. Polish on a cut you are about to change is wasted work.
- Your 20 daily credits reset every day. They never accumulate, so use them — small daily tweaks effectively cost nothing from your bonus or monthly pools.