# Credits

> The starter credit, credit grants, the order credits are spent in, and when they expire.

Source: https://nodus-platform-site.pages.dev/docs/guides/billing/credits/
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Credit grants are credit Nodus gives you, as opposed to credit you buy. Each grant is a `CreditGrant` you can read but not change:

Terminal window

```console
$ nodus get creditgrants
NAME           SOURCE    AMOUNT   REMAINING  EXPIRES
grt_01j9x...   Starter   $30.00   $12.40     2026-10-31
grt_01j9y...   Promo     $25.00   $25.00     2026-11-30
```

The console lists them under **Usage & billing → Credits**, with what each has spent and when it expires.

## Starter credit

The first org you create gets **$30.00** of starter credit once your email address is verified. It expires 30 days after the org is created. Each person gets starter credit once, however many orgs they create.

Orgs that only have starter credit keep tighter limits until their first top-up: 20 GiB of egress a day, $1 a day of console assistant use and no multi-node runs.

## Where grants come from

|Source|How you get it|
|-|-|
|`Starter`|Your first org, once your email is verified|
|`Promo`|[Redeeming a promo code](https://nodus-platform-site.pages.dev/docs/guides/billing/promo-codes/)|
|`Admin`|Credit added by Nodus support, for example a pilot or a migrated balance|
|`Goodwill`|Credit from Nodus support for a problem on our side|

Some plan grants pay only for Indra (`nodus/indra`) model calls; they show `nodus/auto`, Indra’s other name, as their scope and are never spent on anything else.

## Spending order

Charges draw from grants first, soonest expiry first, then from grants that never expire, and only then from purchased credit. You never have to pick which credit pays.

## Expiry

You get an email 7 days and 1 day before a grant expires. At its expiry the unspent remainder leaves your balance at once, even if a run is still using it; the run keeps going on its other credit. Grants are never refunded or turned into cash.

A grant also settles unpaid charges first, the same way a top-up does.