How Do AIVX Labs Credits Work?

The basic mechanic

Think of it as one account, one balance. There's no separate currency for courses (those are free and unlimited on every tier), no separate currency for arcade plays, and no per-tool subscription to track. Credits are the single unit that AI tool runs cost, and your tier determines two things: how many credits you get automatically each month, and how much a credit-based discount lowers what each tool run actually costs you. Every tier, including Free, gets the exact same library of courses and tools — the credit allowance is what scales with the tier, not access itself.

How you earn credits

The primary source is your tier's monthly allowance, granted automatically on your billing cycle: 25 on Free, 100 on Access, 600 on Operator, and 2400 on Agency. Beyond that automatic grant, there are two other real ways credits show up in your balance. First, the referral program: when someone you refer converts into a paying or active member, both of you receive a bonus credit grant. Second, buying a one-time top-up pack adds credits directly to your balance, independent of your monthly allowance or your tier. There's no need to manually claim or activate any of this — a grant lands in your balance the moment it's triggered.

How you spend credits

Every one of the 24+ live AI tools — the AI Ad Creator, Landing Page generator, Email Sequences, Business Audit, Image Studio, and the rest — has its own fixed credit cost, shown to you before you run it, so there's never a surprise charge after the fact. Simpler tools cost fewer credits than tools that do more work (a longer video-narration job, for instance, naturally costs more than generating a short block of ad copy). Paid tiers also get a percentage discount on every tool run — 10% on Access, 20% on Operator, 25% on Agency — so the same tool costs fewer effective credits the higher your tier, on top of a larger allowance to begin with.

Credits aren't earmarked by category. If you have 80 credits left this month, you can spend all 80 on one expensive tool run, split them across several cheaper ones, or save them for later in the month — the system doesn't care what you use them for, only that you have enough in your balance when you click run.

How the monthly refresh works

Your tier's full monthly allowance is added to your balance on your billing cycle — the same date each month your subscription renews (or, on Free, the same date your account started). This is an addition, not a reset: if you had credits left over from the previous month, the new allowance adds on top rather than wiping the slate first. Practically, that means a light-usage month leaves you with more available balance heading into the next one, since nothing forces you to spend down to zero before the refresh lands.

Topping up with a credit pack

If you need more credits than your tier's monthly allowance before your next refresh, one-time credit packs are available on any tier, at any time, with no change to your subscription:

• 500 credits for $50
• 1,500 credits for $125 (most popular)
• 5,000 credits for $350
• 15,000 credits for $900

A top-up is a straightforward one-time purchase — the credits land in your balance immediately and behave exactly like any other credits in your account, with no separate expiration or restriction on what they can be spent on.

What happens at zero

Hitting zero credits does not lock you out of AIVX Labs. Your account, dashboard, course library, and community access stay fully available — the only thing that pauses is running a tool that costs more credits than you currently have. From there you have three real options, and none of them is mandatory: wait for your tier's next monthly refresh, buy a one-time top-up pack to keep working right now, or upgrade to a tier with a larger monthly allowance and a cheaper per-run rate going forward. See what happens when you run out of credits for the full breakdown of that decision.

A worked example

Say you're on Access (100 credits a month, 10% off every tool run). You start the month at 100 credits. You run the AI Ad Creator (listed at 20 credits, discounted to 18 on Access), the AI Content Studio twice for a blog post and a set of social captions (listed at 10 credits each, discounted to 9), and the AI Business Audit (listed at 15 credits, discounted to about 14). That's roughly 50 credits spent, leaving about 50 in your balance for the rest of the month. If a bigger project comes up later — say the AI Voice Studio at 250 credits, discounted to 225 — and your remaining balance doesn't cover it, you'd buy a 500-credit top-up pack for $50 rather than wait, since a top-up is available immediately on any tier. Nothing about the tier itself changes mid-month; the top-up simply adds to what you already have.