Account & platform guide
Understanding TrendyTube credits and usage
Credits measure the work your TrendyTube plan can run. Learn what you can spend now, what is held for future schedules, what has already been used, and when estimates or refunds adjust the balance.
Before you begin
Open the Credits indicator.
Sign in and select Credits in the top navigation. Review Available, Used, Reserved and your reset date, then open Settings → Usage for other limits. Numerical examples in this guide are illustrative.
Part 01 · Put it to work
What is a TrendyTube credit?
A credit is a unit of your plan's usage allowance for tasks such as generating titles, descriptions, scripts or Shorts, researching topics, and running automation. It is an in-product usage unit, not cash. Your current plan defines your credit allowance and which features you can use.
A credit cost reflects the requested work. It may change with inputs such as video duration, script length, research fields, and future scheduled runs. Check the cost shown on the form before submitting rather than assuming every action has the same price.
Credits are not the only limit. Your plan can also restrict channels, tracked keywords, video lengths, script minutes, Shorts, exports or daily keyword searches. An Available credit balance does not bypass those other allowances.
Part 02 · Put it to work
Available, reserved and used
Available = Total credits − Used − Reserved, with Available never displayed below zero. These numbers describe your allowance for the current credit period.
Example only: Of 100 credits, suppose 25 are Used and 40 Reserved. That leaves 35 Available. If the remaining future schedules are stopped and the full 40-credit reservation is released, 75 become Available; the 25 already Used stay used. If a scheduled run consumes 10 Reserved instead, Used becomes 35, Reserved becomes 30 and Available remains 35.
The three credit states
Available
Credits you can spend on a new eligible request right now.
Reserved
Credits held for upcoming Research Hub and Video Keyword Tracking scheduler runs within the current period.
Used
Credits charged for work already started or completed. They ordinarily stay used unless an eligible refund or correction applies.
Part 03 · Follow the steps
How your credit balance changes
Balance and costs
Check your current credit balance
Sign in and select Credits in the navigation. Read the Available, Used and Reserved figures, the total allowance and the reset date. Settings → Usage shows the rest of your plan's quotas.
Why check Available? That is what a new request can spend now. Paid plans generally follow their subscription billing period; Free and other account types have defined credit windows too. Use the Resets date shown for your own account, rather than assuming every user resets on the first day of the month.
Review the cost before submitting a request
When configuring a supported feature, look for its credit cost before you select Generate, Create, Search or Add. A workflow that also starts future automatic runs may show a second Reserved credits estimate.
What happens on submission? TrendyTube checks whether your available allowance and applicable feature limits cover the work. The immediate request cost is charged to Used when the paid work starts; credits for future scheduled runs are held in Reserved. Recheck the estimates if you change the source video, script length, schedule or other settings.
Two amounts with different jobs
Immediate cost
The request you are starting now, such as adding videos or creating a script or research channel.
Reserved credits
The additional allowance held for future scheduled runs; these credits are not yet completed-work charges.
Scheduled work
Understand the credits held for automatic schedules
Research Hub can refresh a channel's research fields, while Video Keywords refreshes enabled tracked keywords for selected videos. TrendyTube estimates the remaining scheduled work in the current credit period and holds the credits necessary to run it.
Why reserve ahead? An active schedule needs capacity for work that has not happened yet. More frequent runs, more selected research fields or more enabled keywords can require more Reserved credits. Slowing, pausing or switching off future runs recalculates the reservation and releases the amount no longer needed to Available. A run already queued or underway may keep its reserved credits until its final cost is confirmed.
Watch Reserved move into Used when a run completes
When an automatic run consumes its reservation, the applicable credits move from Reserved to Used. Your Available amount normally does not increase from that transfer because the credits were already committed.
Example only: Start with 100 total, 25 Used, 40 Reserved and 35 Available. A scheduled run consumes 10 of the held credits: you then have 35 Used, 30 Reserved and still 35 Available. If you switch off all remaining future runs and none are pending, those remaining 30 can return to Available. The completed run's 10-credit cost remains Used.
Example: a 100-credit balance
Before the scheduled run
- Available
- 35
- Reserved
- 40
- Used
- 25
After 10 reserved credits are used
- Available
- 35
- Reserved
- 30
- Used
- 35
The 10 credits move from Reserved to Used. Available stays at 35 because those credits were already held for the run. Understand Research Hub's initial field estimate
At channel creation, TrendyTube does not yet know exactly how many usable research fields its analysis will activate. It determines an affordable initial field capacity using your plan's maximum fields, selected schedule and Available balance, then estimates the one-time creation cost and future schedule reservation.
After setup, TrendyTube adjusts the creation charge and reserved credits to reflect the usable fields actually activated. If an initial estimate covered seven fields but only four became usable, the excess immediate creation charge can be refunded and the future reservation recalculated for the four active fields. These are illustrative field counts, not fixed credit prices. If the maximum is unaffordable, setup may use a lower supported capacity rather than always charging for the plan's maximum.
Understand the 30-keyword preview when adding tracked videos
In Video Keywords → Add Videos, the interface shows two amounts. The immediate Add Videos cost depends on the selected videos' durations. The future Reserved credits estimate assumes 30 keywords for each new video at its chosen update frequency, because the actual keyword lists are not known yet.
What happens after analysis? The system recalculates the future reservation from the real enabled keyword sets, schedules and any shared channel keywords. If fewer keywords need tracking than the original assumption, unneeded reserved credits become Available again. That is a reservation adjustment, not a refund of the immediate duration-based video-addition charge. If setup fails, any eligible credit refund is handled separately.
Failed tasks
Understand automatic refunds when paid work fails
If a paid task fails, TrendyTube can return credits automatically for supported failed requests. Once a refund is applied in the current credit period, Used decreases and Available increases; related task quotas may also be restored where supported.
What should you do? Check the project's final status, then refresh the Credits indicator or Settings → Usage. Processing does not mean Failed. If a failed task's expected refund has not appeared after the refund has been processed, contact support with the tool and task details. Deleting an ordinary completed result does not refund the generation work.
Know when deleting a stuck project can refund credits
Sometimes a project stays Processing long after it should have finished. Supported tools let you delete a still-processing task after that tool's waiting period has passed. If the task qualifies and has not already been refunded, deleting it returns the eligible credits.
Why does the project status matter? This remedy is for work that did not finish, not an option to undo successful work. Deleting a completed script, title, description, Short or tracked-video project does not itself return the credits spent to create it. Stored Shorts may have a separate storage allowance that changes when media is deleted; storage is not the original generation charge.
Check the Delete action and message on the individual project for its current eligibility.
Reset dates
See what happens when your credits reset
At the end of your current credit period, the prior period's used-credit counter resets and your applicable plan allowance is established for the new period. Active schedules can reserve credits for their upcoming work in that new period, so your Available credits can be less than the total immediately after renewal or reset.
Do other limits reset at the same time? Not necessarily. A daily search limit, monthly creation quota or a fixed maximum number of channels can behave differently from the global credit balance. See Settings → Usage for your account's actual amounts and dates, especially after changing plans.
Help · Common questions
Frequently asked questions
Can I spend Reserved credits on a new generation?
No. Those credits are committed to upcoming scheduled runs. Reduce or turn off future scheduled work to release the portion no longer required; costs of runs that already completed stay Used.
Why did Reserved decrease without Available increasing?
A scheduled run may have consumed the reservation, moving credits to Used rather than releasing them. Compare all three numbers. If a future schedule was reduced, the released portion should instead become Available.
Why does my credit estimate change after channel or video setup?
Research Hub can initially charge for an estimated field capacity and then refund any qualifying excess when fewer usable fields are activated. Video Keyword Tracking previews future reservations assuming 30 keywords per new video but recalculates from the actual enabled keywords. That second change releases Reserved credits; it is not a refund of the video-addition charge.
Does deleting completed work return its credits?
Ordinarily no. Credits spent to perform successful work stay Used for that period. Timed-out still-processing tasks have a distinct refund pathway, and some deletions can separately release storage allowance.
Why am I blocked when I still have credits?
You may have reached a separate feature limit such as maximum channels, keywords, script minutes, Shorts, exports or daily searches, or you may not have enough Available credits to cover both a creation charge and required future reservations. Check the request form and Settings → Usage.
When do my credits reset?
The Credits popover shows the current credit reset date, and Settings → Usage shows other quota windows. Paid accounts ordinarily follow a subscription billing period, while Free or other entitlements can use a different window.
Open Usage settings
See your Available, Used and Reserved credits, reset date and other plan limits.
Open Usage settings