One balance, one currency
A new account starts with no credits. The trial comes with some: $3 for your first week on the web or $2.99 on iPhone, with 100 credits (80 + 20 bonus). Beyond that, credits are bought exactly one way, a subscription or a credit pack, and spent exactly one way, on generations. API access does not change either half of that. The five plans run from $9 for 240 credits a week to $649.99 for 19,200 credits a year, and the six packs from $1 to $50.
No plan gates the catalog either: all 385 models are available on every plan, so there is no “API tier” to upgrade to for a bigger model list. Unused credits roll over for as long as the subscription is active, whichever surface spent them.
The same job costs fewer credits through the API
The same job consumes half as many credits when you run it with an API key instead of in the app.
Read that as consumption, not as value. A credit is one currency at one price — nothing about the credits you bought changes, and there is no API credit, no conversion and no exchange rate. It is the number of credits deducted for an API-key request that is lower than for the identical request made in the app.
Three ways in
All three reach the same API at https://api.versely.studio/api/v1 and all three bill identically — pick whichever fits how you work.
MCP server
Paste one connector URL into Claude or any MCP-compatible client and sign in with your Versely account. No key handling, no code.
CLI
Install @versely/cli, run versely auth login, and it wires your key, the MCP connection and the Versely skills into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and other agents.
Agent skills
Pull the Versely skills into an agent so it can drive generation, slideshows, UGC, music, social publishing and full pipelines on its own.
The full walkthrough for each lives on the developer page.
Budgeting a script
Because there is no separate API rate card, the per-job credit costs are the same ones the app quotes. The two numbers that matter when you are looping over a batch:
1–1,988 cr
video — 197 models, cheapest to dearest single generation
1–28 cr
image — 138 models, cheapest to dearest single generation
32 cr
Cheapest complete multi-scene video project
Budget for attempts rather than outputs: every generation a script runs spends credits, including the takes you discard. The full per-model breakdown is on what a credit buys.
No free API tier
There is no sandbox allowance, no trial key and no free daily quota. The cheapest model in the catalog is 0 credits and nothing prices at zero, so every call needs credits in the balance. A new account starts with none; the credits that come with the trial (100 credits (80 + 20 bonus) on the web and on iPhone) are spent by the API the same way the app spends them. After that, the balance comes from an active subscription, topped up with credit packs from $1. When the balance runs out, generation stops until it is topped up.
The same holds through the MCP server: connecting is free, and generations spend the credits in your Versely balance.
API billing questions
Is there separate API pricing?+
No. There is no API-only plan, no per-seat fee and no separate API wallet. API access draws on the same credit balance as the app, topped up by the same subscriptions and credit packs.
Does a job cost the same through the API as in the app?+
The same job consumes half as many credits when you run it with an API key instead of in the app. Credits themselves are one currency at one price — nothing about the credits you buy changes — it is the consumption for an API-key request that is lower.
How do I get API access?+
Through any of the three connection paths: the MCP server, the CLI, or the agent skills. The CLI handles key issuance and wiring in one command; the MCP connector signs in with your Versely account directly.
Is there a free API tier?+
No ongoing one. API calls spend credits from your balance exactly like in-app generations do, there is no daily allowance, and the cheapest model in the catalog is 0 credits. New accounts start with no credits. The credits that come with the trial ($3 for your first week on the web or $2.99 on iPhone, with 100 credits (80 + 20 bonus)) can be spent through the API, and after that a subscription keeps the balance funded, and credit packs top it up.
What happens if my balance runs out mid-project?+
Generation stops until the balance is topped up. Credit packs add to the same balance immediately, which is the usual way to cover a spike without changing subscription cadence.
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