Valmera Credits: Daily, Bonus & Monthly
How the three credit pools work, which one is spent first, when balances reset, and what an editing turn costs.
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 one combined balance, but under the hood there are three pools: a daily top-up for active paid subscribers, any historical bonus credits already attached to an older account, and monthly credits from the subscription. Valmera spends them automatically in that order: daily first, then historical bonus, then monthly.
New accounts currently receive no bonus grant and there is no free editing turn. Creating an account and uploading footage are free; editing requires a subscription. Active Creator, Pro, and Frontier subscribers receive the 20-credit daily top-up on top of their monthly allocation.
Daily, Bonus & Monthly Credits
DAILY TOP-UP
- 20 credits per day
- Active paid subscribers — not Free or an unpaid legacy trial
- Reset daily — never accumulate
- Spent first
HISTORICAL BONUS
- New accounts currently receive 0 bonus credits
- Older accounts may retain a historical bonus balance
- Historical balances are preserved but never refilled
- Spent after any daily top-up
- Spent before monthly credits
MONTHLY CREDITS
- Set by your plan: Creator 1,000, Pro 2,000, Frontier 5,000 per billing cycle
- On top of the daily 20-credit top-up, 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 uses credits according to the work performed — so a still image and a ten-second clip do not consume the same amount. 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.
Credits follow 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
Account
Project setup and uploads; no editing credits
Creator
1,000 monthly credits + 20 daily
Pro
2,000 monthly credits + 20 daily
Frontier
5,000 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.
- Watch the reported balance after each turn. Monthly credits refresh at renewal rather than accumulating, while the 20-credit daily pool resets each day and is always spent first.