AI Tokens
A simple credit balance for the AI-powered features, with every charge visible in your history.
Here is the simple rule: only the features that call out to cloud AI cost anything. Everything else runs entirely on your own computer and is free. The AI features draw from a small pool of AI Tokens. Fixed-price tools show the exact cost and ask you to confirm first. Muse is metered differently because one reply can make several model calls: it charges the measured cost after each response and keeps the running spend visible in its header.
What Uses Tokens
- Chapter Analysis — the AI read of a chapter and its paragraphs
- Chapter Pulse — the AI emotional-arc reading
- AI Images — generated art for characters, locations, and items (a faction’s crest is designed by hand, not generated)
- Manuscript Lens — only its optional cloud AI insight (the built-in analysis is free)
- Podcast — each generated episode, with its cost confirmed before it runs
- Storyboard — rendering a scene’s panels as artwork
- Muse — chat, deep craft actions, scans, and conversation compaction
Always Free (On Your Device)
- Chapter Check — the on-device proofreading engine
- Prose Metrics and Word Cloud
- Read Aloud — the local text-to-speech voice
- Search & Recall across your whole project
- Manuscript Lens's built-in analysis (World, Loops, Prose, and Echoes)
✦Quick start
- 1Start an AI-powered action — say, analysing a chapter.
- 2A confirmation appears showing the exact cost and your current balance.
- 3Click Run to spend the credits, or Cancel to back out — nothing is charged until you confirm.
- 4Low on credits? Top up from the same prompt, or open Credits from your avatar menu.
How Credits Work
- Fixed-price AI tools show their cost up front, plus your balance before and after
- Muse charges its measured cost after each response and shows the balance, session spend, and last-response cost in its header; live balances count down after use and up after a top-up or refund
- If you don't have enough, the prompt offers to top up the amount you need
- The Credits drawer (in your avatar menu) shows your balance, recent runs, and top-up packs
Token confirmation prompt and balance drawer
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Your token balance is tied to your ChapterMuse account, and every AI run is itemised in the Credits drawer so you always know where your credits went.