How credits work

Every workflow you run spends credits — anyformat’s universal billing unit. Each operator (parse, classify, split, extract, validate) consumes a fixed number of credits, and that number is the same on every plan. Your plan only decides two things: how many credits you start with, and what a credit costs if you buy more. Because the per-operator cost is plan-independent, you can estimate any run in credits once and trust the number everywhere.

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What a credit is

A credit is the smallest unit anyformat bills in. Operators spend credits; everything else — pages, files, schema size — only matters insofar as it changes how many operators run and over how much content. Two things never affect cost:

• How complex your schema is
• How many fields you define

What does affect cost:

• Which operators your workflow runs
• How many pages each operator processes (most operators are priced per page)

The Usage & Billing page explains why usage works this way; this page gives you the concrete numbers.

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What each operator costs

¹ A validator is billed per rule, once per extraction — not per page or per file. A 3-rule validator costs 15 credits whether the document is 1 page or 100.

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Standard vs agentic

Parse and Extract each come in two tiers:

• Standard — fast, and the right default for clean, well-structured documents.
• Agentic — a heavier, multi-step pass for messy scans, complex tables, and low-quality inputs. It costs roughly 4× the standard rate (Parse 100 vs 25, Extract 150 vs 35), so reach for it only when standard output isn’t good enough.

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How a run adds up

Add up each operator over the content it touches. Example — a 3-page invoice through parse → classify → extract, with a 2-rule validator on the result: So one 3-page invoice costs 220 credits. At the Business rate that’s €0.22; at the Free / pay-as-you-go rate it’s €0.33 — which is exactly why we quote costs in credits, not euros.

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Common shapes, at a glance

For the page-priced operators, here’s what each common workflow costs per page: Multiply by your page count, then add any validators (5 credits per rule, billed once per run).

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What a credit is worth

A credit’s cash value depends on your plan. Included credits are spent at the same per-operator rates above, and top-ups are priced per plan: Top-ups are bought in credits (minimum 30,000) from the Usage page in the app, via Stripe, and every top-up generates a downloadable invoice.

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Included credits by plan

Every plan comes with a credit allowance: Free organizations don’t get a monthly refill, but their signup grant never expires and they can top up at any time. See anyformat.ai/pricing for current plan prices. Credits can come from three sources, tracked separately on your balance:

• Plan grant — your included monthly (or one-time, on Free) allowance.
• Top-ups — bought any time, priced per plan (above).
• Vouchers — promotional credits, which may carry an expiry (90 days by default).

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Tracking your usage

The Usage page in the app shows:

• Your current credit balance, broken down by source (plan grant, top-ups, vouchers)
• Weekly usage summaries and a per-workflow breakdown
• CSV export for your own reporting
• A Top up button (Stripe checkout) when you need more

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Spending fewer credits

A few habits keep credit usage low:

• Default to standard parse/extract. Agentic is ~4× the cost — use it only for document types where standard underperforms.
• Only add Classify or Split when documents are genuinely mixed. Each adds a per-page operator to every page; a single-type workflow doesn’t need them.
• Keep validators lean. Every rule costs 5 credits per run (billed per rule, once — not per page). Validate what matters, not everything.
• Parse only when you just need markdown. Feeding your own pipeline (RAG, search, a custom model)? A parse-only workflow skips extract entirely.

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