Credits
How credits work in qtrl and how to manage your usage.
How credits work
Every task the AI executes costs credits. The amount depends on the complexity of the task.
Your monthly credit allocation resets on the 1st of each month. Unused credits don't roll over. All team members in your organization share the same credit pool.
For details on plans and what's included, see the pricing page.
What uses credits
Different tasks consume different amounts of credits depending on their complexity. Simple tasks use fewer credits, while longer or more involved tasks use more. Each completed task shows its credit consumption so you can track usage over time.
When you run out
If your credit balance hits zero, you can't start new tasks until credits reset or you add more. Tasks that are already running will finish (qtrl won't kill a test mid-execution), but no new ones can begin.
Credit add-ons
If you need more credits than your plan includes, you can purchase add-on credits on any paid tier. A slider in your organization settings lets you select between 25,000 and 2,000,000 additional credits per month.
Add-on pricing uses graduated bands, so larger quantities get a better per-credit rate:
- First 75,000 credits: $0.60 per 1,000
- 75,000 to 250,000: $0.50 per 1,000
- 250,000 to 2,000,000: $0.42 per 1,000
For example, adding 100,000 credits costs about $57.50/month. Adding 500,000 costs about $237.50/month. You can adjust or remove the add-on at any time from your subscription settings.
Monitoring usage
Your current credit usage appears in multiple places: the subscription card in organization settings, the organization dashboard, and each project's overview page. All of them show how many credits you've used, how many remain, and a progress bar for the current month.