What POM AI credits are

A credit is the unit POM AI uses to price one piece of generation work. This page explains what the unit represents and, more importantly, what it is attached to.

Credits belong to an account

Credits are held by the customer account that owns the license key. They are not stored on your WordPress site, and they are not allocated to a domain.

The practical consequences are worth stating plainly:

• Every authorized domain spends from the same pool. Three sites sharing one key share one balance.
• Deleting a site does not return credits. Consumption is already recorded.
• Moving a site to a new domain does not affect the balance. The account is unchanged.
• Reinstalling the plugin does not reset anything. The number your site displays is a cached copy of the account's figure.

If several sites must not compete for the same pool, either give each its own subscription or set per-domain spending limits. See Plans, credits and domain capacity.

Credits are whole numbers

Every operation is priced as an integer number of credits, and any fractional result is rounded up. A very small operation therefore still costs at least one credit.

This matters when planning batches: fifty tiny operations cost at least fifty credits, even though the same words in a single request would cost less. Batch work where the tool offers batching, rather than repeating a one-item request.

What determines the price of an operation

Two things: how much text goes in, and how much output you asked for.

The request carries your prompt plus the context POM AI attaches automatically — the relevant structured profile sections, the site language, and for some tools the current content being worked on. The requested length is whatever you set: a target word count, a number of sections, a number of images, a number of elements selected for translation.

Larger inputs and longer requested outputs cost more. Two things follow:

• A long selected profile section is not free. Relevant sections are sent with generation requests, so unnecessary repetition raises input cost. Make each section complete, not padded.
• The word count field is a spending control. Halving the target length roughly halves the cost of that request.

For image operations, the choice of speed-and-quality profile matters most: the higher-quality profile is significantly more expensive than the fast one, and the higher resolution more expensive again. The tool says so on screen next to the selector.

Credits measure work requested, not work you kept

A credit is spent when the service produces the output, regardless of what you do with it afterwards. Discarding a generated draft, deleting a generated image or reverting a translation does not refund anything.

This is the strongest practical argument for the estimate-and-confirm habit: the moment to decide is before the work runs, not after you have read the result.

What a credit is not

• Not a subscription seat. Users do not have individual credit allowances; the whole site draws on the account.
• Not a rate limit. Having credits does not bypass a domain spending limit, an invalid license or an unauthorized domain.
• Not transferable between accounts. Credits stay with the account that was granted them.
• Not a currency you can withdraw. They are a service entitlement.

Where the number you see comes from

The balance shown in WordPress is fetched from the account and then stored locally so screens can display it without a network call. That stored copy is refreshed when a tool completes an operation, and whenever you use Refresh on the dashboard panel.

So a balance in WordPress can be slightly stale — for example after credits were bought on the account, or after another site spent from the same pool. The account is always the authoritative figure. See Check your credit balance.

Where credits come from

Two sources, both visible in My Account → POM AI Management:

• Subscription credits, granted by an active POM AI subscription;
• Top-up credits, purchased separately when the subscription allowance is not enough.

Each batch records how much it started with, how much has been used and when it expires. The balance is the sum of what remains across batches that have not expired. See Credit expiration.