How are Faaaster's AI features billed?

The AI assistant is free as part of support: it doesn't use any credits. Credits are only used for the agent's development sessions: 100 credits are offered every month to organizations with a paid hosting plan, and you can buy more online. The MCP server doesn't consume anything.

Contents

• The assistant: free, with a usage limit
• Credits: for development sessions
• Credits offered every month
• Checking your balance
• Buying credits
• When the balance runs out
• Why MCP doesn't consume anything

The assistant: free, with a usage limit

Your questions, diagnostics, approved actions and troubleshooting done directly on a site cost you nothing.

A daily and monthly usage limit applies to each organization. When it's reached, the assistant tells you that it's taking a break until the next day, or until the next month. Our team can still be reached with the Write to the team link shown below its message.

Credits: for development sessions

Building or changing features on a site with the agent is a separate service: it uses credits, tied to your organization and not to a site or a user. Only the organization's owner and admins can start a paid session.

To start a session, describe to the assistant what you want to build or change: it offers you the session, then prepares a card that you approve.

Consumption is calculated based on usage: a long session that touches many files costs more than a one-off change.

The balance is shared across the organization, not per user or per site. Three people working the same afternoon draw from the same pool.

Credits offered every month

An organization with a paid hosting plan receives 100 credits offered every month. A paid hosting plan is a site with an active subscription, on a plan other than Dev and outside its trial period.

Offered credits are renewed on the 1st of each month; the ones you haven't used aren't carried over. A development session uses the offered credits first, then your purchased credits.

Checking your balance

A gauge, below the assistant's header, shows the credits of the organization of the site you have open, or of your default organization; hover over it to read the details. Clicking the gauge, or the Manage credits button (the cog at the top of the assistant), opens the Development credits window. It separates the credits Offered this month, with their renewal date, the Purchased credits, which don't expire, and the Available balance for a session.

The balances of your other organizations are listed under Other organizations. A collaborator invited on a single site doesn't see the gauge.

Buying credits

The organization's owner and admins buy credits online:

1. In the Development credits window, click Buy credits.
2. Choose the Organization that buys, if you manage several, then a pack in Quantity.
3. Check the Total to pay, then click Pay.

The price is shown in the currency of your billing account, with taxes calculated before payment. The amount is charged right away to the organization's payment method, and the invoice appears in its billing.

Without a saved payment method, the Open billing link takes you where you can add one. If buying online isn't available for your organization, write to our team.

When the balance runs out

You need at least 5 credits available to start or resume a development session. Below that, the agent refuses to start it and the Development credits window says "Not enough credits to start a session." The assistant, however, remains available for all your support questions.

When a session is refused for lack of credits, its card says "This organization does not have enough development credits to start this session." with the Buy credits button, which opens the purchase window. The assistant gives you the same link in its answer.

If a development session went past your balance, the difference appears on the Overdraft line: it is deducted from your next purchase.

Why MCP doesn't consume anything

The difference comes down to who provides the model:

• with the MCP server, it's your agent — Claude, Codex, Cursor — and its billing stays with its provider;
• with the built-in agent, it's Faaaster, hence the credit consumption for development sessions.

So if you're an owner, admin or member of a site, MCP lets you work on it with your own agent, without dipping into your credits.

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Updated on: 11/12/2026