How Jellypod credits work: costs, expiry and balance

Credits meter AI generation across Jellypod. You are charged when Jellypod generates something, by one formula for every product.

How credits are consumed

• Narration: 30 credits per minute of audio (1 credit per 2 seconds).
• Images: 7 credits per generated image.
• Video clips: 20 credits per generated video clip.

A podcast episode costs its narration, plus its images and clips when the video template generates visuals. A short or video costs narration plus 7 or 20 credits per shot, depending on whether the shot is a still image or an animated clip. A voiceover narrates the pages you upload, so it costs 30 credits per minute and nothing for visuals. Generating through the API or MCP costs the same as in the Studio.

Estimates and holds

When you click Generate, Jellypod estimates the cost, checks your balance, and holds that many credits so a second generation cannot spend them. The estimate is a ceiling: it assumes every shot an animating style can animate becomes a clip, and it rounds up to the next 5 credits. When generation finishes, the hold settles to what was actually generated. A failed generation is charged only for what was produced (see what a failed video generation costs).

Examples:

• A 30-second short with 7 shots is estimated at 65 credits if every shot is a still image and up to 155 if every shot is an animated clip.
• A 10-minute episode on a Podcast Template costs 300 credits. Watching it generate is where those audio credits are spent.

What uses no credits

Editing, regenerating, publishing, and exporting require an eligible trial or active plan, even when they use no credits. You can browse Studio and prepare sources on Free without a card.

Regenerating narration uses no credits once an episode, short, video, or voiceover has audio, including after you edit the text or change the host. A daily limit applies to regeneration. Rendering, re-rendering, publishing, scheduling, and downloading never use credits, so edit the timeline, switch templates, and export as often as you like. Downloading or publishing later does not charge again.

Regenerating a single visual costs 7 credits, even if the original was an animated clip.

Plan limits

Starter, Educator, Creator and Business each include a monthly allocation, listed under plan limits. It refreshes every billing cycle, even on annual plans. Enterprise credits are set by contract.

• Rollover: a monthly allocation can be spent in the month it is granted and the month after, then it expires.
• Top-ups: credits you buy as top-ups never expire.
• Cancelation: when your subscription ends, that subscription's unused plan credits expire. Purchased top-ups are kept for if you resubscribe. An Educator credit grant is independent of a paid subscription, so it keeps renewing on its own schedule even if you cancel a paid plan during your Educator offer.
• Subscription required: creating and publishing need an active subscription or plan, whatever your balance. If yours lapses, resubscribe before you create or publish again, even with purchased credits left.

Check your balance

Your balance shows in the account menu at the bottom of the Studio sidebar. For the credit usage chart and CSV or JSON export, go to Settings > Usage & Billing (see viewing invoices).

If you run out of credits

Starting a generation without enough credits opens a You're out of credits dialog. With an active subscription, Manage credits and billing takes you to billing settings to buy more credits or change plan. On a trial it reads You've used your trial credits and asks you to subscribe to start your plan's monthly allocation.