Where credits come from
The credits closest to running out are spent first, so a plan’s monthly credits go before a pack’s. Moving to a dearer plan part of the way through a period adds the new plan’s extra credits for the time that is left. Plans and limits compares the plans.
Check your balance
The Credits card on Billing shows how many credits are left, and how many of them expire next and on which date. The balance also shows in the AI Copilot’s message box, and the Generate AI Image window shows the credits you have left.What credits pay for
Prices are in credits. Work that fails gives its credits back, and a request PostQueen refuses before it starts takes none.AI images
An image costs more at a higher Quality, and a Portrait or Landscape image costs more than a Square one. The Generate AI Image window shows the price of each quality.AI videos
Seedance 2.0 (Audio + Video) is priced per second, by Model and Resolution. In the app a video is 5, 8, 10, 12 or 15 seconds long, 8 unless you pick another Length. The API takes any length from 4 to 15. The sound track is free.
An 8-second Fast video at 720p, the default, costs 32 credits. An Image Text Slides video costs 14 credits, whatever its length. The Generate video window shows the price before you choose Generate. See AI images and video.
The AI Copilot and AI agents
The AI Copilot, and AI agents that use PostQueen’s own agent over MCP, are charged by the tokens each answer uses, so a long chat or a long answer costs more than a short one. A message is accepted whenever the balance is above zero, and an answer that started can take the balance a little below zero before it stops. With no credits left, the Copilot reads “You are out of credits, so Copilot cannot answer.”Other AI features
These are charged in credits:- AI post in the Create Post menu, which writes a draft and can make an image for it.
- Auto Post with Autogenerate content or Generate Picture? set to Yes.
- Splitting a long post into several posts with AI.
X
X charges PostQueen for its API, so these X actions take credits:
Reading X analytics does not take credits. Other networks take none.
Posting to X sets credits aside
A scheduled X post sets its credits aside when you save it, not when it publishes. When you choose Schedule, Post now or Update on a post with an X channel and the save needs more credits set aside than the post already has, a Publishing uses credits window shows what it takes and Balance after: with what is left, and says why: “X charges PostQueen for every post published through its API.” When the post has a link, it adds that a post with a link costs 5 credits instead of 0.4. Confirm with the same button, or choose Cancel.- Editing a scheduled post reuses what it already set aside. Only a difference is charged or given back.
- Saving as a draft, deleting the post, or a publish that fails gives the credits back, unless the credits they came from have expired meanwhile. Drafts and Social Sets ask nothing.
- A repeating post sets aside its next run each time it publishes.
- Too few credits: the window’s title reads Not enough credits with your balance, and offers Get more credits to admins instead of saving. Back returns to the composer.
When the balance is too low
Work that the balance cannot cover is refused before it starts, with this message in the Payment Required dialog:Not enough credits: this costs N and the balance is N.Choose Move to billing to buy a pack or move to a plan with more credits. The AI image and video windows say “You don’t have enough credits for this image.” or “You don’t have enough credits for this video.” under the price, with Get more credits. Background work stops without a dialog instead. An Auto Post item becomes a draft, with a notification: “Autopost saved a draft: not enough credits”. A plug stops, with “A plug stopped: not enough credits”. The public API and MCP answer the same message, with status
402: see Limits and errors.
Buy more credits
On Billing, under Buy more credits, pick a pack, tick the box under the packs and choose Buy. Larger packs cost less a credit.
Manage your subscription covers the checkout.
Next steps
Plans and limits
The credits each plan adds, and the other limits.
Manage your subscription
Change plan, buy a pack, update the card or cancel.
AI images and video
Quality, shape, model, resolution and length.
X
What X can post, and what it costs in credits.