Results and credits

Use the acceptance decision and returned credits to understand a call. Customer credits are the units of your plan allowance.

What a call charges

Accepted structured extraction: 1, 3, 8 or 15 credits, according to the work needed to return the answer.
Accepted markdown: 1 credit and an explicitly ungraded quality kind.
A browser-rendered accepted answer adds 2 credits.
Each plan caps one request's credits, rendering included: Free 3, Builder 5, Pro 17. An answer above the cap, or above the account's remaining credits, is refused with INFERENCE_BUDGET_EXCEEDED and charges 0.
Rejected structured output, fetch failure or unavailable service: zero answer credits.
Exact recorded demo requests and the verification endpoint do not charge answer credits.

Read metadata.credits for the actual charge. Usage limits and available capacity can refuse a request before an answer is available. A remaining credit balance does not guarantee that every source is supported.

Assess the result

Check success first. Structured quality measures documented shape, coverage and text checks; it does not establish field attribution or source truth. Markdown has no structured quality grade. Use source excerpts and verify a signed receipt when available.

See pricing for allowances and request limits for admission behavior.