> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.abacusdocs.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Credits and billing

> 1,000 welcome credits, USD packs, and what happens when the balance hits zero.

Abacus Docs is pay-as-you-go. Extraction, reprocess, schema tests, chat, and Black Hole filing spend **credits** from the organization balance.

The header chip shows how many credits you have left and links to **Settings → Billing**.

<Card title="What actually spends credits" href="/account/what-gets-billed">
  Page rates for extraction and schema tests, model usage for the schema-builder agent and Chat, and what is free.
</Card>

## Welcome credits

A new individual account can **Activate free credits** during onboarding — **1,000 credits**, no card. That is the free grant, not a subscription.

Enterprise auto-join (a verified work email that matches an existing enterprise domain) can receive a smaller welcome grant into the shared pool, once per account.

## Packs

On **Settings → Billing**, Owners and Admins can buy:

| Pack       | Price | Credits |
| ---------- | ----- | ------- |
| Starter    | \$10  | 1,000   |
| Standard   | \$20  | 2,000   |
| Pro        | \$50  | 5,000   |
| Enterprise | \$500 | 50,000  |

Prices are USD. Kuwait-billed organizations follow a subscription status instead of this pack list.

Enterprise **members** do not see purchase controls. The page tells them the organization manages billing and shows an admin contact.

## When credits run out

A zero-balance organization is steered to a credits-exhausted page (or pricing, on some hosts). You can still **read** work you already paid for — open documents, browse batches, and revoke shares. New extraction and chat turns are blocked until someone buys a pack or an admin grants credits.

Archived organizations and lapsed subscriptions are blocked more broadly.

## Enterprise

Enterprise organizations share one credit pool. Upgrade paths and domain auto-join are handled in product; do not use the retired `/enterprise/` dashboard — it redirects to organization tools, and its old usage export is gone.

<Note>
  Credits are not tokens and not millicredits. The product UI always speaks in credits.
</Note>