Credit packs and codes
Buy one-time credit packs that never expire, redeem credit codes, and apply checkout discount codes.
Credit packs are one-time top-ups you buy whenever your monthly allowance is not enough, and codes are the other way credits or discounts reach your workspace. Both live on Settings → Billing & credits, below the plan cards.
Credit packs
The Credit packs card says: "One-time top-ups. On the lifetime license they pay for AI features; on a credit plan they add to your monthly allowance. Purchased credits don't expire."
| Pack | Credits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 credits | 1,000 | $9.95 |
| 5,000 credits | 5,000 | $49.95 |
| 20,000 credits | 20,000 | $199.95 |
Key points:
- Pack credits are added to the same balance as plan credits. Tools do not distinguish between them.
- Pack credits never expire. Plan credits also roll over, so there is no rush to spend either.
- On a monthly plan, packs are the way to cover a busy month (a big clustering run, a one-off backlink audit for a pitch) without upgrading.
- On the lifetime license, data calls are billed to your own key and never use credits, so packs exist purely to pay for AI features: content outlines, AI drafts and rewrites, AI search trackers and AI Visibility. If you have connected your own Anthropic key, AI runs bill that key instead and packs are not needed. See Bring your own key.
- Only owners and admins can buy packs; others see "Owners and admins can purchase."
Buying a pack
- Open Settings → Billing & credits and scroll to Credit packs.
- Click Buy on the pack you want.
- Complete the Paddle checkout. Taxes are included where Paddle collects them.
- You return to the billing page with a Credits added notification. The Credit balance tile updates and the Credit history table gains a Purchase row.
Tip: The 20,000 pack works out at about one cent per credit; the 1,000 pack is just under one cent. Monthly plans give more credits per dollar than packs, so if you buy packs every month a higher plan is usually the better deal. See Plans and pricing.
Redeeming a credit code
A credit code is a short code that adds a fixed number of credits to a workspace, for example from a promotion or a support gesture. It is different from a checkout discount code, which reduces the price of a plan.
- On Billing & credits, find the Have a code? box next to the credit packs. It is only shown to owners and admins.
- Type the code. It is not case sensitive.
- Click Redeem.
- On success the message reads "N credits added." and the balance updates. The ledger shows the grant in Credit history.
Each code can be used once per workspace.
Error messages
| Message | What it means |
|---|---|
| "That code is not valid." | The code does not exist. Check for typos. |
| "That code is a checkout discount: enter it when paying for a plan." | This is a discount code, not a credit code. Use it in the checkout instead (see below). |
| "That code has expired." | The code's validity window has passed. |
| "This workspace already used that code." | Each code works once per workspace. |
| "That code has been fully redeemed." | The code had a limited number of uses across all workspaces and they are used up. |
| "Only owners and admins can redeem codes." | Ask an owner or admin to redeem it. |
Checkout discount codes
Discount codes reduce the price of a subscription or the lifetime license. They are applied inside the Paddle checkout, not in the Have a code? box.
There are two ways to use one:
- Type it in the checkout. Open the checkout with Subscribe, Switch to {Plan} or Buy lifetime license and enter the code in Paddle's discount field.
- Follow a link. A link of the form
app.smarterseo.com/settings/billing?coupon=CODEcarries the code onto the billing page, which shows "Code CODE will be applied in the checkout." and pre-fills it when you open a checkout.
Discount codes do not add credits by themselves; the credits come from the plan you buy.