Four Things Cost Credits. Everything Else Is Part Of The Plan.
Articles, generated images, page copy written for you, and rank checks past your monthly allowance. That's the whole list. Cleo tells you the cost before she does any of them.
Making Things Costs Credits. Finding Things Doesn't.
A credit is spent when Cleo produces something - content, an image, a live search. Everything else she does runs on your subscription and isn't counted.
That includes all the work people expect to be metered including the 24 checks, every fix she applies, the titles and descriptions, the image descriptions, telling Google about the business, the keyword research, the advice, the reports. None of it touches your balance.
She also never charges for looking. Finding a broken link is free. Spotting a search you nearly rank for is free. Working out what a page needs is free. You're only charged if you say yes.
Roughly What Things Cost.
| Job | Credits |
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| An article, written end to end (no image) | 4 |
| A generated image, premium | 3 |
| A generated image, standard | 2 |
| A rewritten title or description via Ask Cleo | 1 |
| An AI citation check | 1 |
| A rank check on Google or Bing | 1 Query |
5,000 Google Or Bing Checks A Month, Included In Monthly Subscriptions.
Rank tracking has its own monthly allowance rather than eating your credits. A weekly check on 25 keywords across 5 towns is 500 queries a month. You'd have to be tracking a great deal to run out.
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One Query Per Keyword, Per Place
Ten keywords tracked in one area is ten queries. The same ten across ten towns is a hundred.
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Google And Bing Both Included
Not one or the other.
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AI Checks Cost More
Asking ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini whether they mention you runs a real search, so it's 20 queries rather than one. This is equivelent to 1 credit.
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Past The Allowance, Use Credits
Nothing stops as long as you stary subscribed. Additional queries or checks just moves onto your balance, and you can see where you are at any time.
Need Lots of content or tracking? See what it costs.
Enter what you need or expect to use per website. The figure below will include the base subscription price. It's provides an example of what going over your monthly limit would cost in additional credits, above your subscription costs. It's amazing how much mor you can get done with Presstack AI.
Estimate Your Credit Usage Costs
This calculator assumes you will have 250 credits inclusive via the Core plan. See how uch you can create, and what any overage will cost you in additional credits.
Most businesses make 2 - 3 per week.
Pages are free, but if you want blueprints and page content made by Cleo, use these.
Remember to include at least a featured image for each post you make, and several for every page.
Included monthly pool of 5,000 search tracking queries. 1 keyword check = 1 query. Works in conjunction with AI queries.
Track on Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT. Remember that one keyword x 3 engines = 3 keywords. Works in conjunction with the SERP tracking pot (5,000 query allowance). Each AI query is equivelent to 20 SERP search queries.
This assumes you subscribe to the Core plan with 250 inclusive credits. You will only start occuring additional credit costs if you produce or track more than the inclusive allowance.
Four Things That Stop A Bill Running Away.
- You see the costs - Every job shows what it will cost and what your balance will be afterwards. Planning is free. Cleo will tell you the whole plan first.
- Anything unattended has a ceiling - Set a monthly budget per job. She shows what's been spent, what's left, and what the next run costs. At the ceiling she stops.
- She warns you before you run low - One of the 24 checks watches your balance and flags it early rather than after.
- Running out breaks nothing - Jobs that need credits pause. Everything else, the checks, the fixes, the tracking within your allowance, carries on as normal.
The Questions People Ask.
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No. What you've bought stays bought, whether that's next month or next year.
Your monthly allowance for rank tracking does reset each month - that's an allowance rather than a balance, but purchased credits don't.
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No, and that's deliberate.
Every site has its own subscription and its own balance. A busy client site can't spend a quiet one's credits, and you never have to work out which site used what.
It also means a runaway job on one site can only ever affect that site. Do note though, that you can switch credits between website licenses in your Presstack account if you do have an overage of credits on a client account.
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You aren't charged for it.
The balance check happens before the work starts, and the deduction happens when the work completes. A failed write, a timeout, or an interrupted run costs you nothing.
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Yes, and it's itemised.
Every charge is listed with what it was for, which page it related to, and when. If a month looks higher than expected, you can see exactly which jobs caused it.
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Depends almost entirely on how much you publish or track.
A site putting out four articles a month with an image each is a modest number. A site stamping out sixty location pages in one go is a large one, but it's a one off rather than a monthly cost. The calculator above is the quickest way to get a realistic figure. Put in what you'd genuinely publish rather than what you'd like to publish.
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Write drafts and edit them yourself rather than asking for rewrites.
A rewrite costs the same as the original, so three attempts at one article costs three articles. Filling in the business details properly is the better lever. The more Cleo knows about the business, the closer the first draft lands, and the fewer attempts you need.
That's not a sales line. An empty business record genuinely produces generic articles you'll want to redo.
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No. Like the subscriptions, credit prices are set by region rather than converted from one figure.
The UK, the US, Europe, Canada and Australia each have their own. You see the price where you are, in your own currency, and that's what you're charged — no conversion appearing on the statement later.
If someone quotes you a different number, they're probably in a different region rather than on a different deal.
See What They Go On.
The trial comes with 100 credits. Enough to write a few articles, generate some images, and watch actual usage, which is how to know what you'd actually use.