Current plans and prices live on the pricing page. This chapter is the mechanics — the rules that hold whatever the current numbers are.
What credits are
Credits are what AI jobs run on: generating video, images, music, and narration, plus enhancements like slow motion, upscaling, and video denoise. Different jobs cost different amounts; 1 credit = $0.01, the same anchor the pricing page uses.
Everything else comes with your plan and never touches credits: editing, on-device analysis, export, and the agent within its weekly allowance — past it, paid plans can continue on credits. See Cuts, the agent.
The rules
- You’re charged only when a job succeeds. Failures cost nothing. Cancel a job in flight and the reserved credits come back.
- Expensive jobs quote first. When the price depends on your footage — dubbing, generation — Cuts shows the cost and waits for your yes. Cheap jobs just run.
- Plan credits reset monthly and don’t roll over.
- Packs never expire. Buy credits when you need them; they kick in automatically after your plan credits run out, and they survive plan changes — even a downgrade to Free.
- Credits never unlock plan features. What your plan includes is the boundary; credits pay for usage inside it. On Free, that means credits go to on-device enhancement plus AI music and voiceover — the video and image generators stay a paid-plan feature.
Free and paid
Free is for trying real edits: unlimited editing with two-minute exports (watermarked), full analysis, AI music and voiceover, the agent for light use, and a monthly credit allowance. Free can’t buy packs — if you run dry, wait for the reset or upgrade.
Paid plans remove the watermark and open up the rest: more agent, more credits, longer exports, cloud backup, voice cloning and brand kits, and video and image generation. The pricing page has the current shape.
Subscriptions
- Same price everywhere. iOS costs what the web costs.
- Cancel anytime. You keep the plan until the end of what you’ve paid for, then move to Free. Cancel where you subscribed: web subscriptions in your account settings, App Store subscriptions in your Apple settings.
- Refunds. Web purchases are generally non-refundable, but if something went wrong, write to support@ferment.run and we’ll try to make it right. App Store purchases are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.