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Introducing Credits — A Fairer, Clearer Pricing Model with Nowa 3.1

· 3 min read
Anas Alsalhi
Anas Alsalhi
Founder at Nowa

We’re excited to share an update to how usage works in Nowa.
Instead of a flat “per message” charge, we’re moving to credits based on the actual tokens your prompts use. Smaller prompts use fewer credits; larger prompts use more. It’s fair, simple, and easier to understand.

Why we changed it​

Per‑message billing often led to long, packed prompts just to “count once.” That made prompts produce worse quality results since it's always a good practice when dealing with LLMs to keep prompts small and focused for more accurate and better results.

Credits align cost with usage. When you use fewer tokens, you spend fewer credits. When your prompt is more complex, you spend a bit more. You pay for what you use — nothing more.

How credits work​

  • Credits are now token‑based, not message‑based
  • Short prompts typically use a fraction of a credit
  • Longer prompts and outputs use more credits, proportionally
  • You can see usage per prompt and for the whole chat

Examples

  • “Make this Card widget look more modern/elegant.” Typically ~0.05–0.10 credits. Previously, this would have been a full message regardless of tokens.
  • “Create a modern todo home page with add/delete/complete logic.” About 1 credit on average.

Transparent usage​

We made it very clear to see the input token, output token and credit consumption for each message you sent, as well as for the entire chat.

Going to the settings, you will see exactly your consumption in the last days with exact time, credits, tokens, etc

What this means for your plan​

This means you will be able to use AI agent more often than before with the exact same plan.

We changed the "messages" to "credits" while keeping the same number, so for Launch plan you have 50 credits instead of 50 messages, and same goes for Scale plan having 200 credits instead of 200 messages.

This is beside the AI agent becoming 4x faster and produces 3x better results than the previous versions.

Limits reset with Nowa 3.1​

To support the transition, we reset usage limits with the Nowa 3.1 release.
There’s no need to wait for your monthly cycle — your credits are refreshed, even if you used some earlier in your subscription.

We’re here to help​

Our goal is to make Nowa the place to unleash your creativity, build successful Apps that users love, while have fun doing it.

If you have any question please always reach out to us at team@nowa.dev or using our Discord community. We always love talking to you!