# AI credits and testing

**URL:** <https://forum.hercules.app/t/ai-credits-and-testing/909>\
**Category:** Other\
**Created:** [September 2, 2026, 10:34pm UTC](https://forum.hercules.app/t/ai-credits-and-testing/909 "2026-09-02T22:34:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dare\_Rihter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.hercules.app/dare_rihter/32/973_2.png) [@Dare\_Rihter](https://forum.hercules.app/u/Dare_Rihter)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 10:34pm UTC](https://forum.hercules.app/t/ai-credits-and-testing/909/1 "2026-09-02T22:34:02Z")

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Hi

testing Your product. I ended testing with free credit in 15 minutes. Seriously. So Your app is usable for me about an hour/month.

Please explain if I do not understand something basic.

I am developer, SW architect, former CDO in middle sized dev company, founder etc. with 35 yrs long career.

First impression was good. AI glitches and hearing aid needed for agent to hear me what I talked about, but promising.

Assume You’re Young team with a good but still very young conceptual idea, let’s say it’s still puberty time.

It’s not my intention to dig into every aspect of Your product, because simply You obviously stand on opinion, that every potential customer must be limited to obscure test time to decide, whether Your system will be appropriate for longer term subscription model with You?

Please tell me something positive about how You consider clients which come to the end of subscription model in one day of serious work? What to do with another 30 days in the month? Just curious. 🙂

Best, Dare

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**Author:** ![Dare\_Rihter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.hercules.app/dare_rihter/32/973_2.png) [@Dare\_Rihter](https://forum.hercules.app/u/Dare_Rihter)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2026, 12:27am UTC](https://forum.hercules.app/t/ai-credits-and-testing/909/2 "2026-09-17T00:27:09Z")

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No answers to annoying questions, dear Hercules money pump before beginning of testing only. Shame on You.

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**Author:** ![Anthony\_Saldana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Anthony\_Saldana](https://forum.hercules.app/u/Anthony_Saldana)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.hercules.app/t/ai-credits-and-testing/909/3 "2026-11-05T18:14:04Z")

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Hey! So sorry for the delay here. Free plan includes a limited number of credits that allow you to try out the product. Most users can build a small prototype with those but larger projects will need to upgrade for more credits.

To make the most of your credits, I recommend reading the Improve Accuracy guide [[Make Hercules more accurate - Hercules](https://hercules.app/docs/ai/improve-accuracy)]. It gives you 4 very specific tricks you can always use to make Hercules cheaper, faster, and more accurate.