Credits and usage

Every prompt you send to the Legal AI spends credits. Your plan sets how many you get; this page explains what moves the number, and the habits that make a month's worth go further.

Credits are metered per action, so usage reads by team and by matter type rather than as one number.

Cost follows complexity, not word count

There is no fixed price per question. A short, well-scoped ask spends a fraction of a credit. Drafting a full agreement spends more. Analysing a long contract, or several documents at once, spends more again — the work is genuinely larger.

How credits arrive, by plan

Where credits come from, and whether they survive to next month, depends on how you pay.

Free

A one-time allocation to try the product — not a monthly refill. When it runs out, the AI stops answering until you subscribe. Documents exported on the free tier carry a watermark.

Monthly

Your allocation refreshes at the start of each billing month and does not roll over. Anything unused at month end is gone, so a light month does not bank credits for a heavy one.

Annual

The year's allocation is granted up front rather than metered out monthly, so a heavy month and a quiet month even out on their own. It also costs less than paying month to month for the same year.

Top-up

Extra credits, bought whenever you need them, on top of whatever your plan gives you. Unlike plan credits, purchased credits do not expire — they stay in the account until you use them.

See current plans and allocations

Bigger plans buy volume, not a better model

Moving up a tier changes how many credits arrive and nothing about the answers. The model, the reasoning and the accuracy are identical on every paid plan — the same question returns the same answer on the smallest plan as on the largest. Size a plan by how much you expect to use it, not by how good you need the answers to be. Which features a plan unlocks is a separate question, covered on Plans and Feature Access.

Credits are pooled across your firm

Every seat gets its own AI and its own private history — you cannot open a colleague's conversations, and they cannot open yours. Credits work the other way: they sit in one workspace pool that everybody draws from.

The habits that make credits last

Most of the difference between a plan that lasts the month and one that does not comes down to three habits.

One matter, one conversation — then start a new chat

This is the big one. Each time you send a message, the AI re-reads the conversation before answering, so the same question costs more on the fortieth message than on the fourth. Keep a matter in its own thread while you are working on it, and open a new chat when you move to the next one. A thread that has run all year is the most common reason an account empties early.

Attach what the question needs, and no more

Context is not free. Ten documents attached to a question that turns on one of them costs ten documents' worth of reading. Point it at the clause, the contract, or the file that actually matters.

Ask once, properly

One specific prompt — jurisdiction, parties, what you want out — usually costs less than five vague follow-ups that circle the same answer, and it comes back better.