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What it costs, roughly
The shape of the bill before you spend anything: cents a question, three finished pages for A$8.50, nothing for a run that fails.
You buy credit and each answer spends a little of it
Credit is bought in four sizes, A$20, A$50, A$100 or A$200, and spent answer by answer. Every reply carries what it cost, on the reply itself, so the meter is always in sight. Nothing is charged while you are away, and nothing is charged for a run that breaks on our side.
Orders of magnitude
Three sizes of work
A question
Cents. Asking, arguing about a direction, changing your mind. Most of a working day is this.
Three finished pages
About A$8.50 for three finished pages of a collection: directions, model, sheet and layout, modelled and laid out on your own machine.
A render
A few cents to a few dollars, depending on how much the picture has to show and which picture model draws it.
Two dials
Model and effort set the price of the next answer
Above the text box, Select model chooses the size of mind that answers: Core for everyday chat, Reason for pictures and things it has to look at, Deep for analysis and professional judgement, Prime for the hardest problems. Effort, from Low to Max, sets how thoroughly it works; higher effort means a more thorough answer that takes longer and uses more of your credit. DuoHand picks both sensibly on its own for each step of a job; the dials are there for when you want to overrule it.
Questions
Before you spend
Where do I see the balance?
Settings, Credits. The row shows what is left; Topping up is the page for adding to it.
Where do I see what I have spent?
Settings, Usage: this month so far, split by kind of work. And on every reply, as it happens.
Can I try it for nothing?
Talking, sketching and arguing cost cents, so a first conversation costs less than a coffee. Bring one piece and see what comes back; Your first collection says what to bring.
Does credit expire, and can I get it back?
It does not expire. It is spent on work rather than returned as money, and closing the account ends it. Credit has the rules in full.
More in this chapter
- Signing inEmail links, Google, and staying signed in.
- Where everything isThe sidebar, the chat box and Settings, named the way the app names them.
- Your first collectionWhat to bring the first time, and what comes back.
- How a run worksBrief, directions, the one you keep, files in your folders — the shape of every job.
- Changing your mind, and stoppingWords typed while it works steer it; an empty box and the same button stop it.