How credits work
Your plan gives you a usage limit that refills every 5 hours. Past it, credit you bought pays, in dollars: $20 bought reads as $20.00.
Always free, every plan
- Editing, searching and navigating code
- The terminal, git and your own interpreters
- Extensions from Open VSX
- Scanning a workspace for AI use
- Your account and signing in
Uses bundled credits
- Messages to starnode-hosted models: Claude Haiku 4.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5
- Charged for the tokens each reply actually used, as the model provider reports them
What a message costs
Rough costs: exact usage varies with message length and model.
| Action | Cost |
|---|---|
| Short message on Claude Haiku 4.5 | about $0.006 |
| Short message on Claude Sonnet 5.5 | about $0.012 |
| Short message on Claude Opus 5.5 | about $0.024 |
| A large file in context (20,000 tokens) on Sonnet 5.5 | about $0.10 |
- Free
- Base, every 5 hours≈8 short Sonnet messages
- Pro
- 15x, every 5 hours≈125 short Sonnet messages
- Max 5x
- 5x Pro, every 5 hours≈625 short Sonnet messages
- Max 20x
- 20x Pro, every 5 hours≈2,500 short Sonnet messages
See your balance any time
Sign in and your account page shows what is left this month, when it refills, and what each message cost.