I’ve been using Builder.io actively for the past few days, and my AI credits usage has been steady — around 120 credits total across multiple projects over 3–5 days.
Today, in the middle of a project, my usage suddenly spiked from ~120 to over 500 in a matter of minutes… and I didn’t actually get any generated output from it. No new components, no code snippets, nothing useful — just a massive jump in the counter.
For context, I’m on the $30/month plan, which makes this especially frustrating. A few snippets of code shouldn’t cost nearly my entire monthly allowance, especially when there’s no visible result.
I saw the August 14, 2025 update about Agent credits being “a smarter way to power AI interactions,” but right now this feels anything but smart. If credits can vanish this quickly without delivering value, then the system is not balanced for actual day-to-day building work.
Suggestions:
Add transparent usage logs that show exactly what burned credits and when.
Stop counting “background” or auto-triggered processes against credits unless the user explicitly asks for them.
Consider more generous allocations or a cap on charges for no-output requests.
Right now, paying $30 for what can amount to a few pieces of code feels unreasonable. If this is the new Agent credit model in action, it needs serious rebalancing before it can be fair to paying customers.
The calculation system is very problematic, in 5 minutes I haven’t used much code and almost 100 credits have been used up, I don’t think it’s fair here. Too expensive when the money is gone before the result is out. Even the responses say that there is no cost but are still deducted by the processes, fixing system code errors is also counted.
Could not agree more. After the ,migration of AI Credits to Agent Credits, the Limit exhausted with in minutes. Looks like some kind of known scams or a technical glitch has happened here. Just look at the attached usage chart (when the usage is same across all days since past 3-4 days) and see the sudden spike. I want my Agent Credits to reset properly and I believe it should be with in 100. Moreover, I am working with only 1 project and that too 2-3 hours of usage. This is insane and would request to fix it ASAP.
Hello I’m Adam, one of the Product Managers at Builder. I’m sorry that you ran into issues with the new credits system. I know our support team has been helping users as issues come up - whether in forums like these or via direct contact.
There’s definitely no ill-intentions here when it comes to pricing and usage. We want you to get lots of value from the product, and to use it daily for all of your projects. The goal of usage-based pricing has been to provide a more transparent, understandable approach that you can have a direct effect on via prompting and provided context.
Early on (which this post was created the day we released updated pricing) we did experience some errors around the UI not displaying the number of credits correctly and some users being charged for runtime errors caused by Fusion where they were not previously charged for them. We have addressed those issue, and you should not continue to run into them. Please let us know if you do.
Since releasing this two weeks ago we have worked to make the following improvements based on feedback like yours:
Fusion is now optimized and more efficient - dropping credit consumption by 20-30% while preserving quality output and responses
users can now choose from a variety of models for interactions - some costing half as many credits as the default model
users can now clearly see how many credits were charged when a response is returned by hovering over the “more info” icon located over the chat box in Fusion
In addition to these updates, we are continuing to make Fusion better everyday in order to increase its value to you and all of our other users.
If there’s anything else I can help address, I’m definitely happy to - both in terms of feedback on this credit system or in general.
I’m Adam, one of the Product Managers at Builder. I’m sorry that you ran into issues with the new credits system. I know our support team has been helping users as issues come up - whether in forums like these or via direct contact.