Where credits come from
Chat credits arrive from three sources:- Trial. A one-time grant of 100 credits for an eligible new account.
- Holder flow. A daily accrual earned by verified $NOXINT holding. See Holder flow.
- Purchased packs. Bought outright, rolling out with launch. See Tokenomics.
What an answer costs
Each delivered answer is charged as follows:
The first 25,000 prompt tokens carry no surcharge. Only successful data calls
bill; a failed call costs nothing. No useful answer, no charge at all. A
typical grounded answer costs a few credits, which is why the 100-credit trial
covers dozens of real questions.
Reservation
Before any work starts, the maximum possible cost of the answer is reserved against your balance. After delivery, the reservation settles to the actual cost and the difference is released. A request that cannot cover even one grounded data read is rejected up front rather than run into a wall. Duplicate submissions are detected and never charged twice. This is the same reserve-then-settle discipline the API uses. One metering philosophy across the whole product: you pay for delivery, never for attempts.Spend order
With credits from more than one source, spend follows a fixed order: Holder flow first, then trial, then purchased credits by earliest expiry. Purchased credits expire one year after they are granted.Trial admission
Claiming the trial has five explicit outcomes, and you always see which one applied: credits added, already claimed, unavailable on this device, grants temporarily paused, or verification temporarily unavailable. No email, payment, token balance, or wallet age required. A failed claim never leaves you with a zero-credit account.Chat credits never fund the API. The API and MCP run on separate data credits.
See API billing.