Your account
Credits
Understand the balances in the Freemarket, purchase costs, pending earnings and the Usage tab.
Credits cover Freemarket purchases, shouts, AI actions and public sharing when a charge applies. A listing shows its price before you buy, and a separate confirmation lets you review it. Creating an ordinary node does not spend credits.
Read your balance
Open the Freemarket while signed in. The top of its window shows Your credits, split into monthly and earned. Pending earnings and amounts owed appear when you have them.
| Display | What it means |
|---|---|
| monthly | Your monthly allowance together with any granted credits. The two are combined in this display. |
| earned | Spendable credits from sales and royalties. |
| pending | Sale earnings still waiting for their hold to end. They are not yet spendable. |
| owed | An amount remaining after a sale reversal. New earnings pay it down first. |
The monthly allowance resets each month. Granted credits and earned credits do not share that monthly reset. For a Freemarket payment, granted credits are used first, then the monthly allowance, then earned credits. Pending credits cannot cover a purchase.
You do not choose a balance at checkout. The shorter checkout sentence names monthly and earned credits rather than listing granted credits separately.
Check a cost before confirming
| Action | Where to check the cost |
|---|---|
| Buy a Pixl | The listing's price, followed by Confirm purchase. A zero-credit listing offers Get it free. |
| Music listings | A price and purchase confirmation are shown, but music purchases cannot currently complete in the browser interface. See The Freemarket. |
| Create an additional Pixl listing | The listing form states whether it uses a free slot or costs a credit. My Store shows your current allowance of free slots. |
| Share a node | Read the share confirmation. It states whether the share is free or costs 2 credits. |
| Send a shout | The Shout form shows the price and available balance for your chosen reach. |
| Run a node lookup | The Lookup panel warns that each lookup uses credits. Opening it with no saved answers can start one automatically. |
A purchase can fail if the balance is too low, the listing has ended or its last copy has sold. Not enough credits. means the available credits do not cover that price. That did not go through. Nothing was charged. is the purchase failure message. Check whether the item appears in your collection before repeating an interrupted purchase.
For the steps to publish a node and the result of doing so, see Sharing.
A shout reserves its price during the countdown. Cancel before it goes out to release those credits; wait for the cancellation confirmation. For node lookups, reopening saved answers does not run a new lookup, but choosing Look up again starts another credit-using action.
Pending sale earnings
Sale payouts wait seven days before becoming earned credits. My Store shows pending earnings and, when supplied, the date they are held until. A buyer receives their purchase without waiting for the seller's hold to end.
A sale reversal can reduce pending earnings. If it leaves an amount owed, new earnings pay down that amount before adding to your spendable earned credits. The Freemarket explains this beside the balance. Use the displayed earned figure when deciding what you can spend.
Music listing pages show the fee and who shares the proceeds. Read that information before listing or buying; the price the buyer pays and the amount each seller receives are different figures.
AI usage
Open Settings → Usage to view hosted AI activity for this account. Choose Today, 7 days or 30 days. The panel reports Requests, Input tokens, Output tokens and Estimated cost, with a By model breakdown when there is activity.
The estimated cost is displayed as a money amount; it is not a Freemarket listing price. The panel can also show remaining credits, failed requests and whether hosted AI is off for the account. No AI usage in this period. means there are no model entries in the selected range.
If the report cannot be loaded, it shows a message in place of the figures. Try another range or reopen Usage after the connection returns. An unavailable report does not mean your Freemarket balance is zero.
Billing
Settings → Billing contains an explanatory message, with no working payment, subscription or invoice controls. The Freemarket and Billing tab have no credit purchase or cash-out control.
For questions about a purchase or an unexpected balance, contact [email protected]. Include what you tried and the message you saw. The Terms cover the service.