How do usage limits and credits work?
Last updated June 3, 2026
Usage is how Repaint measures the work the AI does for you. Every time you ask the AI to do something, it spends a little of your usage. You get an allowance to spend each week, and it refills on a weekly cycle.
How usage works
Your usage allowance belongs to your workspace, not to a single site. Everyone in the workspace and every website in it shares the same weekly allowance. The size of that allowance depends on your plan: Plus includes more than Free, and Pro includes 4× the weekly usage of Plus. See how to choose a plan.
You can see your usage anytime on the Usage tab in your workspace settings. It shows a meter with the percentage you've used so far, along with the date and time your allowance resets.
Your allowance refills once a week, all at once, on the same weekly schedule that started when you signed up or upgraded. It's a fixed weekly cycle, not a rolling one, so your full allowance comes back at the reset. Unused usage doesn't carry over to the next week.
What counts as usage
Anything the AI does counts as usage. Every message you send it spends some, and so does the work behind it, like generating pages, reading a site you're importing, creating images, and making edits. Even saving a direct edit to the page uses a little, because an AI agent applies that change for you.
Manual actions are free, since they don't involve the AI. Publishing your site, for example, doesn't cost any usage. Asking the AI to do something, like connecting a custom domain, uses a small amount like any other chat request. For tips on making your usage go further, see usage limit best practices.
What happens when you hit your limit
As you get close to your limit, a warning appears above the chat. Once you run out, you can't send any more messages to the AI until you get more usage. You can wait for your weekly reset, upgrade from Free to a paid plan, move from Plus to Pro for 4× the included weekly usage, or buy usage credits on either paid plan.
Running out doesn't take your site down. Your published site stays online no matter what, and you can still open the editor to preview your site. You just can't ask the AI to make changes, and direct edits are paused too, since saving them relies on the AI.
How extra usage credits work
Credits let you keep editing after you've used up your weekly allowance instead of waiting for the reset. They're available on both Plus and Pro, so you'll need a paid plan before you can buy them.
Credits are measured in dollars. You buy however much you want, like $5 or $25, and your balance ticks down as you make edits. They're only spent once your weekly allowance is gone, so you always use your included usage first. Anything you buy never expires, so leftover credits stay on your account.
You can buy credits as a one-off, or turn on auto-refill to top up automatically when you run low so your editing isn't interrupted. With auto-refill, you can set a spending cap so your costs stay predictable. Your credit purchases and usage show up on the Usage tab alongside your weekly meter.