Credit

The credit is the unit we sell. One credit covers voicing an article up to a character ceiling; beyond that, one more credit per started block. That is the whole model, and it fits in two sentences because there is nothing else to it.

Why a per-article unit rather than per character

Per-character billing looks fairer and is unusable in practice: nobody knows how many characters they publish per month. What a newsroom knows is how many articles it publishes and roughly how long they run. The unit therefore follows what the customer can count, not what would be most elegant to invoice.

The corollary is the started block, and that is the unpleasant part. An article one character over the ceiling spends two credits, and the unused characters of the second do not roll over. We write it everywhere the subject comes up, including on the page where you pay, because it is exactly the kind of rule a customer discovers at the wrong moment.

The calculation to run before choosing

Multiply your monthly article count by the credit cost of an average article. To get that cost, count roughly six characters per word in French news copy, spaces included: the figure of five you read everywhere comes from English, and underestimating would lead you to pick too small a volume. The calculator on the Pricing page runs the conversion in that direction.

The calculation exposes a real editorial trade-off: depending on your average length, coming back under the ceiling can halve your bill. Better to see that before signing than in the third month.

What a credit does and does not include

A full regeneration spends a credit, like a generation, since the article is remade. A targeted correction is charged too, and under exactly the same rule as a production: one credit per thousand characters started, never fewer than one, and each correction opens its own rather than drawing on a leftover. There is no included editing allowance; there was one until 10 August 2026, withdrawn when the credit moved to a finer block. What remains true, and it is the only reason to prefer a correction, is that it covers only the passage rewritten where a regeneration pays for the whole article again: on a long read the gap runs to dozens of credits. Audio read by a cloned voice counts for several credits, and the client area announces that before each generation rather than after.