AI usage
How AI usage works.
What a credit is, what each plan includes, how top-ups and your own keys work, and what happens when hosted AI runs out.
Usage · Northwind Sleep demo workspace, fictional data.
Fig. 1 · Brands, Meta profiles and people, by plan.
What a credit is
One credit is $0.01 of AI usage at SocialBuster’s own prices. Each request is priced from what the model it uses actually costs, so a short text request uses a few credits and a large image uses more.
Hosted AI included each month
Plan
Included hosted AI
Your own keys
Creator
1,500 credits a month
No
Growth
5,000 credits a month
Yes
Agency
12,000 credits a month
Yes
Scale
30,000 credits a month
Yes
Resets
Included credits reset at the start of every billing period and do not roll over. Annual plans receive them every month, not all at once.
Top-ups
Credits
Price
1,000
$15
5,000
$60
20,000
$199
Purchased credits never reset. They expire 12 months after purchase and are used after your included credits.
Bring your own key
On Growth and above you can connect your own OpenRouter key for text and your own fal.ai key for images. Requests on your keys use none of your plan’s hosted AI, and you pay the provider directly.
There is no plan that is only bring-your-own-key.
When hosted AI runs out
Only hosted AI generation pauses. Posting, scheduling, analytics, your Meta accounts and everything you already made keep working. From there you can buy more credits, use your own keys on Growth and higher, or wait for the next billing period.