Plans
A paid plan’s allowance renews each billing period. Credits bought on top of
a plan are their own lots, spent after the allowance, and the only credits a
refund can ever return. Free and promotional credits are non-refundable.
The four moments
The ceiling is the most an episode can ever settle for. Feeds routinely
under-state their length, which is what the 25% is for; an episode that runs
past even that is charged the ceiling, never more. A quote is valid for
fifteen minutes; confirming a lapsed one is refused as
quote_expired.
Cached reads
A transcript another account paid to produce costs you one tenth of its audio minutes, rounded up, never under one credit: a 78-minute episode reads for 8. The account that produced it reads it again for the floor of one. A read you paid for yourself is free forever after. Details on Cache behaviour.Reading your balance
Every quote response carriesbalance_credits and reserved_credits, so an
API-key caller always knows what it can spend before it confirms. The usage
page in the dashboard shows the period’s spend by day.

