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Usage and Credits

AI credits are included with every plan: see the credits table for your plan's allowance

Usage and Credits

The Usage and Credits screen shows how your organization consumes platform functionality. AI actions such as assistant conversations, model generation, and summaries are metered in AI credits. Other capabilities, such as simulation runs, preprocessing, data queries, and exports, are metered as separate categories on the same screen. You always know what you have left in each.

ProcessMind usage and credits screen

About AI Credits

AI credits are the internal metering unit for ProcessMind’s AI features: they exist to pool and report usage, not as a currency, and your plan’s allowance is the only limit that applies (paid plans are never charged for usage beyond their allowance). Most AI actions cost between 1 and 50 credits depending on the action:

  • Update text and short summaries: 1 credit
  • AI simulation settings: 3 credits
  • Generate a model: 10 credits
  • Scan a document or image: 15 credits
  • Process a video: 50 credits

What Else Is Metered?

Besides AI, other platform capabilities draw on the same metered allowances shown on the Usage and Credits screen. Depending on your plan you will see balances for:

  • AI: assistant chats, model generation, summaries, and document or video processing.
  • Simulation: simulation runs.
  • Preprocessing: artifact and data preprocessing.
  • Data ingestion: data uploads. AI data recommendations run automatically as part of upload processing and are covered by this category, not by AI credits.
  • Data queries: queries run from model pages.
  • Dashboards: queries run by dashboard pages.
  • Exports: document and analysis exports.
  • External API: REST API and webhook activity.
  • Search: global search requests.
  • Storage: stored data and artifacts.
  • MCP: Model Context Protocol calls.

Each category shows the percentage remaining and the reset countdown. You are notified at 80% and again at 100% of an allowance. On the Process Individual plan and the free trial, a category stops once exhausted; on paid plans usage can continue past the included allowance without extra charge, matching the AI-credit behavior below.

Included Credits by Plan

Every plan includes a monthly allowance of AI credits:

Plan Included AI credits
Free trial 100 total (one-time, for the whole trial)
Process Individual 20 / month
Process Foundation 500 / month
Process Architecture 2,000 / month
Process Intelligence 5,000 / month
Enterprise Scaled to your agreement

Monthly Reset and Pooling

Credits are pooled per organization and reset monthly on paid plans. Unused credits expire at the end of each billing cycle: they do not roll over. The free trial instead uses a one-time allowance for the whole trial period (it does not reset monthly). Your current balance and the next reset date are shown on the Usage and Credits screen.

When You Run Out of Credits

On the free trial and the Process Individual plan, AI access is blocked once the credit pool is exhausted until it resets. On paid plans, usage continues past your included credits and you are notified; you are never charged beyond your plan.

  • No surprise charges: you are never billed beyond your plan’s allowance
  • No hard paywall: normal, non-AI functionality keeps working
  • Automatic recovery: AI features become available again when the pool resets (on plans where access is blocked)

If you regularly run out of credits, consider upgrading to a plan with a larger allowance. See Billing and Payments for plan options. For an example of an AI-powered feature that consumes credits, see AI-Assisted Simulation.

Frequently asked questions

The free trial includes a one-time allowance of 100 credits for the whole trial period. The Process Individual plan includes 20 credits per month, Process Foundation 500, Process Architecture 2,000, and Process Intelligence 5,000 AI credits per month. Enterprise credits are scaled in your agreement.

Credits are ProcessMind's internal metering unit — they are not a currency and you are never charged per credit. A typical AI interaction (a chat turn, a model generation, or a summary) costs roughly 1 to 50 credits depending on its length.

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