Credits & limits

Paid usage is metered in credits across two pools — standard and premium — and each pool has two gates: a 5-hour rolling window and a weekly ceiling.

Why two gates

• The 5-hour window refills quickly, so a burst can’t drain your whole allowance in an hour and leave you waiting.
• The weekly ceiling is the real limit, so hitting the wall costs you a week at most — never a month.

Run out of a window and it comes back in a few hours; run out for the week and it resets in a few days. Either way the free open models keep working while your credits refill (for as long as that day’s shared pool lasts), so running out never fully locks you out.

Where to see it

Settings → Usage & limits shows both pools, each window and ceiling, and the exact time each refills — so “refills in 3h” also reads as “refills at 18:40”.

What a plan buys

Every feature is on every plan. What a paid plan raises is how much of the expensive models you get, how many scheduled flows you can keep, and how large a tree you can ask a question across — not access to features.