- Credits
- Credits pay for the work. Every model call, web search and picture spends some, and each charge leaves a receipt saying which agent did what. Nothing else is rationed.
- Plans
- Newsroom is $599 a month or $6,490 a year, with 400,000 credits a month. Network is $1,499 a month or $16,190 a year, with 1,000,000.
- Bought outright
- 600 credits a dollar, any amount from $25 to $5,000, with or without a plan. A plan is the cheaper rate.
- A month of work
- Modelled below on Phanor's default schedule, with a picture drawn for every story. The premium rows write on Claude Sonnet 5; the rest use the model Phanor ships with, which costs a fraction of that.
The bars run the full million of Network's allowance. The black mark is where Newsroom's 400,000 sits.
So Newsroom carries ten stories a day on premium models with half its allowance unspent, and more than three times as many stories if you write on the model Phanor ships with. Network carries that same month on a fifth of its credits. Twenty a day on premium models is the one row that overruns Newsroom, by about a tenth, and that month wants Network or some bought credits. Every request shows what it cost, so you can check these figures against your own first week rather than take them on faith.