--- title: "Plans and credits" description: "What each site plan includes, and what credits pay for." canonical: "https://atelier201.com/docs/platform/credits-and-plans" updated: "2026-11-06" --- # Plans and credits Creating a site is free; putting it online is paid. A draft is created, edited and shared through preview links at no cost, and only a site on the Site plan goes live. Each site is paid on its own. The workspace has no plan: it only buys optional AI credits, and pays one subscription for its Sites. ## Site plans | | Draft | Site | | ----------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | | Price per site, per month (excluding VAT) | 0 | 9 EUR | | Or per year (excluding VAT) | 0 | 90 EUR, two months free | | Online | No: preview links only | Yes | | Address | Preview links, 7 days by default, 30 at most | `.atelier201.page` and custom domains | | Custom domains | 0 | 3 | | Media storage | 100 MB | 5 GB | | Built site (pages, scripts, styles) | 200 MB, 10,000 files | 1 GB, 30,000 files | | Time one build may take | 5 minutes | 10 minutes | | Sized for visits a month | Not online | 50,000 | | AI credits added each month | 0 | 1,000 | | Publications kept for rollback | 5 | 50 | A workspace can hold 10 drafts, or 25 once it has paid for a Site or for credits. Sites are never limited. Publishing a draft is refused with a `403 feature_not_available` whose `action_url` opens the site's plan. Traffic is never a cut-off. Past its visits, the owner is told and offered an add-on. ## Add-ons for a Site A Site that outgrows its plan takes as many units as it needs. Add-ons are coming soon. | Add-on | One unit adds | Price per month (excluding VAT) | | ------------ | ---------------------- | ------------------------------- | | More traffic | 100,000 visits a month | 10 EUR | | More storage | 25 GB of media | 3 EUR | Reading, editing, building, previewing and publishing are part of the plan. They cost no credits on any surface: the app, the REST API, MCP and the CLI. So do free stock photos and videos. A Site whose plan ends, at the end of the period already paid, goes offline on every address: visitors see a page saying the site is taking a break, with a link for its owner (HTTP 503, so search engines keep its pages for a while). Its draft, its history and its preview links stay, and it comes back as it was when the plan is paid again. A failed payment does not take a site offline at once: Stripe retries it for about two weeks first. ## What credits pay for Credits pay for AI, and nothing else: the AI assistant in the app, and images and videos made with AI for a site. The assistant reads the site, proposes changes that you apply, and asks you questions. An AI agent you connect through MCP, the CLI or the API uses its own model, so it spends no Atelier201 credits, unless it makes an image or video with AI and its credential has the `media:generate` permission. An image or video made with AI costs a fixed price per model, shown before it is made: in the assistant on the card you approve, through the API and MCP as an estimate that costs nothing. A failed generation gives its credits back. Some examples: | What | Credits | | --------------------------------------------------------- | --------- | | A quick draft image (`p-image`) | 8 | | A photo in standard quality (`flux`, `nano-banana`) | 88 to 126 | | A high-quality image with text in it (`gpt-image`) | 320 | | A 5-second ambient video (`p-video`, 768p) | 438 | | A 5-second realistic video (`wan`, 720p) | 1,250 | | An 8-second cinematic video with sound (`seedance`, 720p) | 4,624 | When the balance runs out, the assistant stops and tells you. Everything else keeps working. ## Where credits come from You buy credits in any amount from 10 EUR, VAT excluded. Up to 25 EUR, 1,000 credits cost 1 EUR; past that, each credit costs less the more you buy, down to 0.65 EUR per 1,000. For example, 50 EUR buys 52,900 credits and 200 EUR buys 246,600. Every AI model is available to everyone, and the assistant charges what the AI uses. Members are unlimited. | Source | When | Expires | | --------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | --------- | | Welcome credits | 5,000, once per person | 90 days | | Paid sites | 1,000 per Site, each time a site invoice is paid | 35 days | | Bought credits | When you buy them | 12 months | | Referral reward | The new workspace on signup, the referrer on the first purchase | 90 days | Credits are spent **oldest expiry first**, so nothing expires unused while a longer-lived grant sits untouched. > **Info: Refunds are additions, never subtractions** > > A credit refund appears as a new grant, not as a correction to an old one. The > ledger is append-only, so the history of what happened survives.