Credits
Credits pay for the Assistant’s own answers: each request uses the model that writes the answer, and credits are what that costs. Everything else in Stab, and an AI app you connect on your computer, uses none.
Credits
Available on every platform.
What a request costs
A request is charged what it actually used, at least 1 credit, and never more than the most its kind can cost, which the Assistant says before you send it. Roughly:
| Request | Usually | At most |
|---|---|---|
| A question about Stab itself (how to do something in the app) | about 15 credits | 25 |
| A question about your song, or an edit (a part written, a bar changed, a sound set) | about 40 credits | 100 |
| A new song | about 150 credits | 250 |
| Any request on Best, when you choose it | about 600 credits | 1,000 |
Best takes longer and more credits, for the parts you care about: choose it from the chip under the Assistant’s box. It’s never chosen for you, and its estimate always shows before you send. Fast, chosen there too, answers any request for about 15 credits, at most 25. When an estimate is more than your balance, the chip’s list shows its price dimmed over Not enough, and the line beside the chip says Not enough for this · Get Credits before you send.
A long thread costs a little more per request, since each answer reads the thread again; the estimate says longer thread then, and Summarise and Continue or New Thread bring it back down (see Long threads). A request that fails isn’t charged. One you stop with Stop is charged only what it had used. One that reaches its limit before it has changed anything is charged no more than its estimate.
Credits need a free Stab Cloud account
Credits are kept on your Stab Cloud account, not on a device, so the Assistant can use them on every device you sign in on: buy them on your iPhone, use them on your Mac. The account itself is free. If you’re not signed in, the credits sheet starts with Sign In or Create Account, and what you typed stays in the box.
Packs, and where each is sold
| Pack | Price | Sold on |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 credits | $4.99 | everywhere |
| 2,200 credits | $9.99 | everywhere |
| 4,800 credits | $19.99 | everywhere |
Prices are in US dollars; each store shows its own in your currency, with tax.
- On a Mac, on a PC and on the web, packs are sold by Paddle, our reseller: Get Credits opens Paddle’s checkout in your browser (on the web, over the page), and the credits are added as soon as it’s paid.
To buy, choose Get Credits in the Assistant pane or its balance chip, Get Credits… at the foot of the chip’s list under the Assistant’s box, Get Credits… in Assistant credits in the Cloud pane, the credits row at the top of your account’s menu (the face at the top right of the home and of a song’s bar), Credits in Settings › Account, or Settings › Editing › Get Credits…. Pick a pack, then buy it. A request you were about to send stays ready: the sheet’s Send sends it once the credits are in.
Stab Cloud includes 600 credits a month
A Stab Cloud subscription comes with 600 credits each month, on top of everything else it gives. They’re spent before any you bought, and what’s left of them doesn’t carry over to the next month. Credits you bought stay on your account after a month ends, and after a subscription ends.
Your balance
Your balance is the same on every device you sign in on, and it shows wherever the Assistant can be asked:
- The Assistant’s pill in a song’s bar, when it’s pinned there: the number after a thin line (1,412), dim while there’s plenty, orange when it’s less than a request is likely to cost or at 0, and +1,000 in brass for a moment just after you buy a pack. Holding the pointer over it says how the balance splits. Over 9,999 it shortens to 12.4k. While an AI app is connected, the pill shows no number: what the app does uses no credits.
- The chip at the top of the Assistant pane (1,600 credits ›), orange when it’s short of your next request.
- Ask the Assistant on the home, under its name: 1,412 credits, or Not enough for a new song when that’s so.
- The foot of the chip’s list under the Assistant’s box: 591 left this month · 1,000 bought.
- Assistant credits in the Cloud pane, above your account’s line: the balance, Stab Cloud’s month, what you bought, Get Credits…, and Recent uses, the last five things that moved your balance on any device: a request (Asked the Assistant, A new song…), a pack bought, a gift from us, Stab Cloud’s month.
- The first row of your account’s menu, Credits · 1,600 in Settings › Account under your plan, and the Credits group in Settings › Editing, under the Assistant.
The balance comes from Stab Cloud: just after you sign in, a dim bar holds its place for a moment, never a 0. It updates after each request and each purchase.
With Stab Cloud the balance is the month’s credits and the ones you bought together. The account menu says it under the number, Stab Cloud 600 of 600 · bought 1,000, and Settings › Editing lists them apart: the balance, Stab Cloud this month with what’s left and when it renews, and Bought credits. Nothing shows until you’re signed in.
Bought credits don’t expire while your account exists, and an account holding credits you bought isn’t deleted for being unused. Deleting your Stab Cloud account yourself deletes its credits with it.
Refunds
- Bought from us, through Paddle (a Mac, a PC, the web): within 14 days of buying a pack, you can have it refunded: in full if you haven’t used any of it, and for the part left if you have, so you pay only for the credits you used. Write to [email protected] from the email you bought with, or use the link in Paddle’s receipt.
A refunded pack’s credits that are left are taken off your balance. See Refunds and the Refunds page for the rest.