Usage & billing cycles
What’s measured
Section titled “What’s measured”Usage is counted in credits, summed across every run in the current cycle. Credits are framework-weighted: 1 credit = 1 Playwright test = 100 pytest/Vitest tests (a Playwright test costs 1 credit; a pytest/Vitest test costs 0.01). A Playwright run with 200 tests adds 200 credits; the same count of pytest tests adds 2. Retries that store another result count too. You can watch the current total on your organization’s Billing screen, which also shows the raw test count behind it.
When the cycle resets
Section titled “When the cycle resets”- Free cycles are anniversary-based: they reset on the same day-of-month your organization was created. An org created on Jan 15 resets on Feb 15, Mar 15, and so on (clamped for short months - e.g. a Jan 31 anniversary lands on Feb 28).
- Pro cycles follow your subscription’s billing period from Polar. The displayed usage, reset date, and estimated charge all track that period - so a subscription that renews on the 30th resets on the 30th, not on your original org anniversary.
Free: the hard cap
Section titled “Free: the hard cap”When a Free org reaches 1,000 credits in a cycle, further uploads are blocked until the next reset. A banner in the dashboard tells you you’ve hit the cap. Your test runs are unaffected - they pass and fail exactly as before; they just aren’t recorded until the cycle rolls over (or you upgrade).
Pro: included + metered overage
Section titled “Pro: included + metered overage”Pro includes 10,000 credits per cycle. Past that:
- Each additional credit is metered at $0.001 - an early-bird rate, half the standard $0.002, locked for at least 2 years for orgs that start Pro now.
- Overage is billed in arrears - it appears on your next invoice, on top of the $20 base.
- Pro never blocks. Uploads keep flowing no matter how far over you go.
The Billing screen shows an estimated charge this period, computed from your current usage:
estimate = $20 base + $0.001 × max(0, credits − 10,000)| Credits this cycle | Estimated charge |
|---|---|
| 8,000 | $20.00 |
| 10,000 | $20.00 |
| 15,000 | $25.00 |
| 35,000 | $45.00 |
Managing payment & invoices
Section titled “Managing payment & invoices”Checkout, the customer portal, payment methods, and invoice downloads are handled by Polar. Reach them from the Billing screen → Manage subscription.