You can find your current balance in billing tab of your account settings
How Credits Balances Work
Updated 2 weeks ago
Overview
All credit balances are denominated in credits (Unlimited accounts also have a separate fair-use transcription allowance, measured in minutes)
Every account has 2 types of credits
Allowance Credits (resets every month)
Top-up Credits (never expires)
Balances are only relevant for users with a paid account — Unlimited Subscription or purchased one of our LifeTime Deals
You can find all your credit balances under the billing settings in your account
Using Credits
Credits can be used for various features in Transcript LOL. The charges vary based on your account plan.
Manual Transcription
Unlimited Plan — Free
Lifetime Plan — Paid at 60 credits per hour
Automated Transcription
Paid at 60 credits per hour
Summaries, Custom Prompts & Chatbot
Paid per response
Varies by model selected
Order of spending
We always spend from your monthly allowance credits first before dipping into your Top-up credits. Once you run out of both credit balances, our service will reject actions that are paid under your account’s current plan.
Allowance
What is monthly allowance
Allowance is the monthly credit added to your account. Only eligible accounts will receive the allowance every month.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for monthly allowance, your account must meet at least one of the following:
You have an active Unlimited Plan Subscription (monthly or yearly)
You have purchased and redeemed a Lifetime Deal on your account
How much do I get
Subscription accounts: You will receive 2000 credits allowance per month per billing account
Lifetime accounts: You will receive the equivalent of your LTD benefits as follows:
Tier 1 — 400 credits (equivalent to 400 minutes)
Tier 2 — 800 credits (equivalent to 800 minutes)
Tier 3 — 1600 credits (equivalent to 1600 minutes)
Tier 4 — 2400 credits (equivalent to 2400 minutes)
Subscription Seat Users
Allowance credits are granted and held at the billing account level; seat add-ons do not add monthly credit grants
All seat users can spend the credit allowance from the billing account
The credit allowance within each seat account will always be 0 (unless the seat has their own subscription)
This allows you to reassign seats at anytime and keep all billing under a single account
How does it work
Every month, if your account is eligible, you will receive a fixed amount of allowance (see details below)
Any unused allowance from the previous period will expire at the start of a new period
The exact date of your allowance resets depends on when you started your subscription
Example 1: (monthly subscription)
You subscribed to our Unlimited Plan (monthly) on 12th of August. Your first month allowance is added immediately after your payment is cleared. Every month, roughly around the 12th, we recycle your allowance once Stripe confirms the payment for your subscription renewal. This can be delayed if your payment has delays.
Example 2: (annual subscription or LTD account)
You subscribed to our Unlimited Plan (annual) on 12th of August or redeemed your Lifetime codes on 12th of August. Your first month allowance is added immediately upon payment or redemption. Every 30 days, we recycle your allowance. The exact date and time of the recycle may vary by up to 24 hours due to technical constraints of our cron jobs — so your 2nd recycle may happen between 11th to 13th of September.
Credit Top-ups
What is Top-up Credit Balance
Top-up credit balance reflects any manual top-ups you performed in your account. These credits never expires and can be used in conjunction with an active subscription.
Top-up Credits Access
You must have an eligible recurring subscription or a Lifetime entitlement to access your top-up credit balances
Your top-up balance stays in your account even when you cancel your subscription
You will need an eligible recurring subscription or a Lifetime entitlement to view, add, or spend from your top-up balance
Get Free Credits rewards
The Get Free Credits tab in your account menu lists promotional activities that earn you free credits. This program is separate from Refer & Earn.
Activity | Reward |
|---|---|
Add a backlink to Transcript.lol on your website | 1,000 credits, one-time |
Post a video about Transcript.lol on YouTube or TikTok | 1,000 credits, one-time |
Leave a review on G2 | 500 credits, one-time |
Credit Transcript.lol in your podcast show notes | 200 credits per episode, up to 5 episodes |
Review our Chrome extension | 200 credits, one-time |
Post about Transcript.lol on social media with a link | 100 credits per platform |
Claiming a reward
In your account menu, open the Get Free Credits tab.
Click Claim on the activity you completed.
Enter a link that proves you completed the activity, such as the URL of your published backlink, video, review, show notes, or social post. For a Chrome extension review, a link to a screenshot also works.
Submit the claim.
Once you submit, our team verifies the claim and adds your credits.
FAQs
Where can I find my current balance?
Why can’t I transcribe, we have enough balance
Please double check your account balance from billing settings
Please check your usage logs for how your balance was used