Plans and billing
How credits work
Credits measure the work Gini does, not the number of people using it. What jobs cost and where to watch the balance.
A five-second lookup costs less than a twenty-minute analysis, because it is less work. That's the entire model.
Credits are shared across the whole workspace and reset monthly.
What things cost
| Kind of job | Roughly |
|---|---|
| A simple task: a lookup, a question, a short draft | 25–75 credits |
| A recurring job: a weekly report, a triage sweep | 125–375 credits |
| A larger project. A deep analysis, a multi-tool piece of work | 500–1,250 credits |
A weekly report costs about 375 credits each time it runs. Useful anchor: that's roughly 1,500 credits a month for something that would take a person three hours a week.
What 50,000 credits buys
The Team plan's monthly allowance is around 130 recurring jobs, or many hundreds of small ones, or any mix of the two.
Concretely, a team running:
- 4 weekly routines (≈ 6,000/month)
- A daily triage sweep (≈ 4,000/month)
- 200 ad-hoc questions across the team (≈ 10,000/month)
- A handful of bigger analyses (≈ 5,000/month)
...is using about half of it.
What drives the cost of a job
How much it has to read. 200 tickets costs more than 20.
How many tools it touches. Each one is a round trip.
How long it thinks. A judgement call over messy data costs more than a lookup.
How many times you re-ask. Follow-ups are cheap (a reformat is a fraction of the original run), but ten rounds of clarification add up to more than one clear ask.
Reading the last one as advice: getting the ask right first time is the main lever you have. Asking for work.
Watching the balance
app.ginicomputer.com → Usage. Credits spent, what's left, and what it went on.
Two things worth checking monthly:
Which routine costs the most. Often not the one you'd guess, and often one that grew: a sweep that used to check 30 records and now checks 300.
Whether a daily routine earns its 5×. Daily costs five times weekly. Some do earn it. Many were set to daily because the form offered it.
Failed runs
A run that fails part-way has still done the work it did before failing, and that's what it costs. Gini doesn't charge for work it didn't do, and it doesn't silently retry expensive jobs.
Making credits go further
Weekly over daily, unless someone acts on it daily.
Narrow the scope. "This quarter" instead of "all time". Most of the cost is reading.
Say what you want up front. One clear ask beats four rounds of "no, not like that".
Prune dead routines. A routine nobody reads costs the same as one everybody reads. Managing routines.
Running out
Gini tells you in the channel and you can buy more. Nothing is added to your bill on its own. Running out of credits.