Credits & limits

One run of one AI tool. Most cost exactly one credit — a 4-line haiku and a 200-line ode both cost the same. A few larger jobs cost more because they're a bigger job, not a longer one: Verse & Ink's illustration is 5 credits, and Rate My Book — which reads every chapter of a whole manuscript — is 12, 30, or 75 depending on length.

You have a single balance shared across every AI tool on the site and at the Writing Desk. The deterministic tools never touch it.

See alsoPlans and credits

Free and unlimited, with no account and no credit — these do their work by computation, and nothing is sent to an AI model:

• Syllable Counter (which runs entirely in your browser)
• Iambic Pentameter Checker
• Rhyme Scheme Finder
• Alliteration Checker
• Limerick Checker
• Citation Generator
• Poetry Prompts and the Writing Prompt Generator
• The Quiz Library

One credit per run — the analyzers, checkers, and raters for both poems and stories, the Lyric Analyzer, Metaphor and Simile Finders, Work Q&A, Essay Scaffold, Compare Poems, and the three teacher tools.

Rate My Book is priced by length, not flat: 12 credits for a manuscript up to 20,000 words, 30 up to 60,000, and 75 up to 120,000 — because reading a whole novel chapter by chapter is a genuinely bigger job than a single pass over a story. Verse & Ink, the one illustrated card in the Poem Card Maker, is 5 credits.

On your own result pages — a rating, an analysis, a check — you can talk to the reader that wrote the feedback: ask why a score landed where it did, or push back on a note. In that conversation one credit covers three messages: the first is charged and the next two are included, even if your balance has reached zero. After you clear a conversation, your next message is charged. The result on the page doesn't change.

Once you have a few results on record you can ask for your writing arc: one report, 3 credits, written from the results you already have — what keeps coming back across your pieces, and where your scores have moved. Asking again over the same results costs nothing.

At the Writing Desk:

• Passage feedback — 1 credit a run.
• Workshop chat — 1 credit covers 3 messages.
• Read aloud — 1 credit a reading.
• The three AI reports and the corpus benchmark — 1 credit each.
• Writing, saving, the syllable gutter, the five computed reports, goals and streaks — no credits at all.

Every button that costs a credit says so before you click it.

See alsoAll 30 tools

One-time, not daily. One AI run without an account, and 5 credits when you create a free account. We'd rather say that here than let you discover it on the second run. Most AI runs cost one credit; a few larger reports cost more.

A free account's credits do not refresh — /me/ labels them "One-time credits". After that, a plan or a credit pack pays for further runs.

See alsoCreate a free accountSee the plans

• Starter — 100 credits a month, about 3 runs a day.
• Plus — 500 credits a month, about 16 runs a day.
• Pro — 1,000 credits a month, about 33 runs a day.

Yearly plans get the same monthly allowance — you pay for twelve months up front, and the credits still arrive month by month.

See alsoPlans and pricing

On your billing date, not the first of the month. If you subscribed on the 12th, your credits refresh on the 12th. Subscribe on the 31st and short months refresh on the 30th or 28th, then it returns to the 31st.

Yearly plans refresh monthly too. /me/ shows the exact next date.

See alsoCheck your balance

No. The refresh sets your balance to your plan's allowance rather than adding to it, so anything unspent is gone at the reset. That's true on yearly plans as well, and we'd rather tell you here than in a footnote.

Two kinds of credit are the exception. Credits you buy don't expire; they stay on your account through the refresh. Banked referral credits sit in a separate balance and are never wiped by the monthly refresh either.

AI runs stop until your reset date, and we show you which date that is. If you have banked referral credits they're spent automatically first.

Nothing else changes. Every poem page, analysis, theme, comparison, study guide, and discussion-question set stays readable, and the deterministic tools keep working without limit.

See alsoSee the plans

Credits are one of four separate checks. The other three are there to keep the tools up for everybody:

• Going fast — 10 runs from one network in five minutes. Applies to everyone, paid plans included. Wait a few minutes.
• Too many runs from your network today — a daily ceiling per IP address, on anonymous and free accounts only. Paid plans skip it entirely.
• Storgy is at capacity — a site-wide daily budget for AI work. Temporary, and not a reflection of your allowance.

The network ceiling is the one that catches classrooms, offices, and cafés, where everyone shares a single address. If a free user is stopped by it, we hand their credit straight back — you should not lose a credit to someone else's usage.

See alsoUsing Storgy with a class

No. Reading costs nothing and always will — poem pages and their line-by-line analyses, themes, movements, comparisons, study guides, and discussion questions. Credits only pay for a fresh AI run.

No. When a run fails we put back everything it consumed — the credit, the daily counters, and for anonymous visitors the one-time free run itself. The error message says "Your run was not charged."

The one thing not given back is your place in the five-minute burst window, since that exists to stop a failing request being retried in a loop.

No. Submit identical text to the same tool and you get the existing result back without spending a credit — that's true of the standalone tools and of the Writing Desk alike. At the Desk the buttons relabel themselves "free (unchanged text)" so you can see it before you click.

Better still: paste a poem that's already in the Storgy catalogue and we send you to its published page instead of running anything.

One exception: conversations have no cache, because every message is a new question. Instead, in Workshop chat and the conversation under a result, one credit covers three messages.

On /me/, where the plan panel shows the number, a usage meter, and your next reset date. The Writing Desk also shows a running count in its status bar.

The /me/ figure includes banked referral credits; the Desk status bar shows plan credits only. Every priced action re-checks the real balance on the server before it runs.

See alsoMy Storgy

Yes. Credits come in packs, and each pack is a single payment. Without a plan, a credit costs half again Starter's rate; on Starter, Plus or Pro, you pay your plan's rate per credit.

Credits you buy don't expire. They stay on your account through each month's refresh, a downgrade or cancelling your plan, and they're spent after your monthly credits.

See alsoCredit packs and prices

Yes, once you switch on “Ask before running” in Settings. It's off until you do. With it on, Storgy asks before a run on the tool pages and the teacher tools. The button gives way to a line naming the run and its price, with Cancel and Run beneath it. Nothing is spent until you press Run.

It also asks before “Make the card” in Poem Cards when the template costs credits, and before “Draft the quiz” on a poem's quiz page. At the Writing Desk, it asks before Submit for review, the AI reports, Read aloud and feedback on a passage. Chat messages don't ask, because you type them first. Rate My Book and the Writer's Arc keep their own confirm step.

The setting is saved to your account. A browser picks it up once you've opened the Writing Desk, Settings or a tool such as the Poem Rater in that browser while signed in. Until then, the teacher tools, Poem Cards and the quiz page run on one press in that browser.

See alsoOpen Settings

Exactly as they always did. Those plans are metered by daily run caps rather than credits, and nothing about them changed when credits arrived — Student gets 50 runs a day resetting at midnight UTC, Teacher Pro has no daily cap.

You keep that deal, at that price, until you cancel. If you do switch to a current plan the change is permanent — the old rates are closed.