# LinearB | How Credits Work

> LinearB's pricing model is designed with your flexibility in mind. It's a hybrid system that empowers you to manage your costs effectively.

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# LinearB Pricing and Credits

LinearB's pricing model is designed with your flexibility in mind. It's a hybrid system that empowers you to manage your costs effectively. There are two components to our pricing system: 
* A fixed seat price is based on the number of users assigned to your teams.
* Usage-based credits are consumed when LinearB automates a PR for any member of your organization.
One PR consumes 100 credits, regardless of the number or type of tasks — like an AI-based code review or policy-based routing — that LinearB runs. It also doesn’t matter whether a user or a bot created the PR, any PR automated by LinearB consumes 100 credits.

## How users and bundled credits work

You only pay for users assigned to a team (‘billable users’). A user (a ‘unified user’) can combine multiple account types: a platform account, git accounts, project management accounts, and AI tool accounts. When several accounts merge into one user, they count only once. You only pay for users assigned to a team (‘billable users’). You can add unlimited users who aren’t on a team at no additional cost. Bots are never billable, even when they generate PRs. The number of user seats determines the amount of bundled credits included in your plan.

## The number of user seats determines the amount of bundled credits included in your plan.

Plan

Price per user

Bundled Credits per user

Essentials

$29/month

1,000 credits/month

Enterprise

$59/month

1,500 credits/month

Your credit allocation is a shared pool for the entire organization, so you don’t need to manage credits at the user level. Users who aren’t on a team can still consume credits from your shared pool. Credits reset on the first of each month. If usage exceeds the bundled allocation, you can add credits at any time by purchasing credit packs, which are added to your monthly allocation. 

## What happens if you exceed your credit limits?

Our overage policy is designed to be flexible and fair so you can predictably manage your costs during your initial ramp and easily navigate any changes that occur in the future. Here’s how we do that: 1\. You get a buffer period 
* You can exceed your monthly credit allocation in any two months per contract year at no charge.
* These months don’t need to be consecutive.
2\. We cap overages to protect you 
* To prevent accidental runaway use, we cap the free overage at 120% of your credit allocation to prevent accidental runaway use or abuse.
* The 120% cap is removed during the first two months of your deployment to allow time for right-sizing.
* If you reach the cap, automations pause until the next monthly reset or until you purchase additional credits.
3\. You can purchase additional credits at any time 
* Credits are sold in packs of 5,000 & 10,000 (e.g., 50 or 100 additional PRs).
* Additional credits are recurring monthly credits. Once purchased, they are added to your account through the end of your contracted period.
* Volume discounts are available for large deployments.

## What if I need additional credits?

The product's usage dashboard shows your credit balance and current consumption. You will also receive usage notifications and alerts if you are approaching credit limits. If you need additional credits, simply click the button on your billing dashboard to contact a LinearB representative. Credit packs are priced as follows, with volume discounts available for large deployments.

## Credit packs are priced as follows, with volume discounts available for large deployments

Pack Size (credits)

Monthly Price

Cost per Credit

5,000

$67.50

$0.0135

10,000

$125.00

$0.0125

Contracts and billing are offered on an annual basis only. Your contract will be adjusted when additional credit packs are purchased. Extra credits will be applied for the duration of your contracted period.

## How to estimate your credit usage

For example, assume a developer team of 50 users looking to purchase our Essentials plan. The monthly bundled credit allocation works out to: 
* 50 users x 1,000 credits/user = 50,000 credits/month
* 50,000 credits support 500 automated PR/month or 10 PR/user/month
Next, estimate your monthly PR volume based on the number of commits. Include PRs generated by both developers and bots. When you initially setup LinearB for your free trial we backfill the previous 90 days of data so you can make an accurate assessment. Once you have the total PR volume, estimate the percentage of PRs that LinearB will automate. This number can vary significantly between companies, but a good rule of thumb is to start with 50% and adjust up or down depending on your goals. 

## Scenario A

Total PR/month

700

% Automated

50%

Automated PR/mo.

350

Estimated Credits Required

35,000

## Scenario B

Total PR/month

1,000

% Automated

60%

Automated PR/mo.

600

Estimated Credits Required

60,000

Finally, compare the estimated credits required to bundled credits. In Scenario A, you would expect no additional credits to be needed in the short term. In Scenario B, you should purchase 10,000 additional credits and evaluate usage to see if more are required. In all cases, teams should validate these assumptions based on actual usage during the free trial period and/or the first two months of production, i.e., the buffer period. This is enough time to determine steady-state usage and growth so that you can plan and budget accordingly.

## Still have questions?

Please [contact us](https://linearb.io/contact-us) if you need help estimating your usage or have other questions.

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