Where credits come from
Chat credits arrive from three sources:- Trial. A one-time grant of 50 credits for an eligible new account.
- Holder flow. A daily accrual earned by verified $NOXINT holding. See Holder flow.
- Purchased packs. Bought outright in the app. See Tokenomics.
What an answer costs
Data calls price by what they deliver, on the same card as the
API: simple reads — price, technicals, a company profile,
light market context — cost 1 credit; domain depth — derivatives detail,
financials and filings, insider and ownership records, social intelligence,
web search — costs 3; the whole-board situation read costs 5. Resolving a
ticker or contract to an asset is free.
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. The
arithmetic is short: an answer built from a situation read and two cheap
follow-ups costs 5 + 5 + 1 + 1 = 12 credits, which at the $25 pack rate is
twelve cents, and the 50-credit trial covers roughly four to eight 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 fund even a single data call is rejected up front rather than run into a wall. Duplicate submissions are detected and never charged twice. The API meters data credits with the same reserve-then-settle rule.Spend order
With credits from more than one source, sponsored credits spend before purchased ones: 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.