# Clarification on usage based pricing **URL:** \ **Category:** 🤝 Community Help\ **Created:** [April 20, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/clarification-on-usage-based-pricing/9543 "2025-04-20T14:37:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![saschwarz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/saschwarz/32/1619_2.png) [@saschwarz](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/saschwarz)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/clarification-on-usage-based-pricing/9543/1 "2025-04-20T14:37:30Z")
When/how are credits used in usage based pricing? The document doesn’t specify: [https://media.roboflow.com/roboflow-rate-table.pdf](https://media.roboflow.com/roboflow-rate-table.pdf) Are AI Labeling credits deducted each time images are uploaded/labeled or summed over the month and then credits are deducted? IOW, if I upload one image and use AI Labeling does that immediately use one credit or can I upload 100 images and AI label them one by one over a month and that costs one credit? Similarly for augmentation over multiple training sessions. Does generation of 1000 images in 20 training session within a month use one credit or 20 credits? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Jacob\_Witt](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/jacob_witt/32/347_2.png) [@Jacob\_Witt](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Jacob_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/clarification-on-usage-based-pricing/9543/2 "2025-04-21T17:18:39Z")
Hi @saschwarz - thanks for posting! AI labeling credits are deducted when an image is labeled (each image counts once in a session, but will count twice if you label the same image across multiple sessions). Generation also consumes credits when you generate those images. ---
**Author:** ![saschwarz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/saschwarz/32/1619_2.png) [@saschwarz](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/saschwarz)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/clarification-on-usage-based-pricing/9543/3 "2025-04-22T15:06:26Z")
So to be pedantic 🙂 To minimize my use of credits I should upload many files at once if I’m going to use AI Labeling; uploading 150 files would use 2 credits, while uploading 1 at a time and using AI Labeling would use 150 credits. ---
**Author:** ![Jacob\_Witt](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/jacob_witt/32/347_2.png) [@Jacob\_Witt](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Jacob_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/clarification-on-usage-based-pricing/9543/4 "2025-04-22T19:24:45Z")
No - in both cases it’s charged on a per-image basis. You’d pay the same amount for 150 1-image jobs or 1 150-image job. ---
**Author:** ![saschwarz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/saschwarz/32/1619_2.png) [@saschwarz](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/saschwarz)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/clarification-on-usage-based-pricing/9543/5 "2025-04-23T00:52:52Z")
Oh so it is fractional credits? Maybe [https://media.roboflow.com/roboflow-rate-table.pdf](https://media.roboflow.com/roboflow-rate-table.pdf) could be updated and clarified to say it was 1/150th of a credit per image for AI Labeling instead of the current wording? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/roboflow1/original/1X/bb6edbfa56d0cf2ee603f061e9e09103502cc8cc.png) [@system](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/clarification-on-usage-based-pricing/9543/6 "2025-04-30T00:53:14Z")
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