# Billing & Credits

The **Billing & Credits** section lets you manage subscription plans, monitor credit burn, and purchase additional credit packs.

## Billing management

From this section, authorized users can:

* view current subscription,
* change organization plan,
* manage billing details and payments,
* track plan renewals and consumption behavior.

## Credit model overview

Flashback uses a **credit-based consumption system**. Credits are consumed based on node type and operation profile.

### Consumption rates

#### Public nodes

* **Storage egress**: `10 credits / GB`
* **AI/LLM tokens out**: `0.001 credit / token out`

#### Private nodes

* **Storage egress**: `1 credit / GB`
* **AI/LLM tokens out**: `0.00005 credit / token out`

> Public-node traffic generally consumes credits faster than private-node traffic.

## Plan credit allocations

### Individual

* `10 credits/month`

### Organization Free

* `40 credits/month`
* No monthly/annual paid billing cycle

### Starter

* `1,100 credits/month` or `15,000 credits/year`
* `$100/month` or `$1,000/year`

### Growth

* `9,500 credits/month` or `130,000 credits/year`
* `$300/month` or `$3,000/year`

### Scale

* `89,000 credits/month` or `1,125,000 credits/year`
* `$1,000/month` or `$10,000/year`

## Credit pack top-ups

You can add extra credits with packs (up to **3 packs per month**):

* `+100 credits` for `$20`
* `+500 credits` for `$50`
* `+1,000 credits` for `$100`

## Upgrade and downgrade behavior

* On upgrade: you receive plan credits for the selected billing periodicity.
* On downgrade: already allocated credits for the paid/prepaid period are preserved.
* Example: if a monthly period is already paid, credits remain available during that period.

## API mapping

* Credits: [Credits API](https://docs.flashback.tech/support-reference/platform-api-reference/credits)
* Subscription & billing: [Subscriptions API](https://docs.flashback.tech/support-reference/platform-api-reference/subscriptions)