> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.noxint.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Chat credits and pricing

> Pay per answer from a credit balance, with the maximum cost reserved up front and the difference refunded

No subscription. No seat pricing. No "contact sales". You pay per answer from
a credit balance, and the meter is honest by construction: charged for what is
delivered, refunded for what is not.

## 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](/token/holder-flow).
* **Purchased packs.** Bought outright, rolling out with launch. See
  [Tokenomics](/token/tokenomics).

## What an answer costs

Each delivered answer is charged as follows:

| Component                                                     | Cost     |
| ------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- |
| Base, per delivered answer                                    | 1 credit |
| Each successful live data call                                | 1 credit |
| Each started 25,000 prompt-token block after the first 25,000 | 1 credit |

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.

<Note>
  Chat credits never fund the API. The API and MCP run on separate data credits.
  See [API billing](/api/billing).
</Note>