How credits work
Every package includes a monthly pot of credits. This page explains what they are, what things cost, and what happens if you run out.
A credit is what you spend when we find something
Searching Ainstein is free. Browsing results is free. Sending what you find to your CRM is free. You spend credits at the moment Ainstein does the expensive part: revealing a contact detail, or sending ai off to work through the database for you.
If nothing is found, nothing is charged.
What is included
Credits are included with every licence and pool across your whole account, so a heavy user and a light user share the same balance. They reset on the first day of each billing month and do not carry over.
| Package | Credits per licence, each month | A 10-licence account |
|---|---|---|
| Discovery | 200 | 2,000 |
| Insight | 500 | 5,000 |
| Intelligence | 1,000 | 10,000 |
What things cost
One balance covers everything, so you are never holding two kinds of credit and guessing which one runs out first.
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| Action | Credits | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free, always | ||
| Standard search | 0 | Search and filter the people, company and jobs databases as much as you like. |
| Viewing a profile | 0 | Everything on the record except the contact details you have not unlocked. |
| Sync to your CRM | 0 | Send a person or company into your CRM, and keep it updated. |
| Signals and alerts | 0 | Being told when someone moves, when a job reposts, when a saved search hits. |
| Contact details | ||
| Work email | 1 | A verified email address at their current employer. |
| Personal email | 3 | An address that survives a job change. |
| Mobile number | 10 | A direct mobile. The hardest thing to find and the most expensive for us to source. |
| ai in the app | ||
| Agentic ai search | 3 | Three credits each time you ask. A back-and-forth conversation that lands on a good shortlist is usually six or seven questions, so around 20 credits. |
| Over MCP, using your own ai | ||
| Enriched search | 2 | A search that returns enriched data from our database, run from your own tools. |
| ATS search | 1 | A search against your connected ATS. |
| A search that finds nothing | 0 | A search that returns no result is never charged. |
| Contact unlocks | As in app | Work email 1, personal 3, mobile 10, the same rates as inside Ainstein. |
| Per ai turn | 0 | No per-turn charge over MCP. You connect your own model and pay for it directly. |
Agentic ai search costs 3 credits a turn in the app because Roi-AI pays for the model. Over MCP there is no per-turn charge, because you bring your own model and pay for it directly. Enriched and ATS searches over MCP are charged as above.
A search that returns no result costs nothing. If a detail turns out to be wrong, tell us and we put the credits back.
What 500 credits actually buys
A recruiter on Insight, working a normal month:
- 100 work emails · 100 credits
- 20 mobile numbers for the roles that need a call · 200 credits
- 10 agentic ai searches, conversational, around 20 credits each · 200 credits
- Unlimited standard searching, syncing and signals · nothing
That is 500 credits. Most desks land under it. The ones that do not are usually running high-volume outreach, and those teams tend to be on Intelligence.
If you run out
You do not stop working. Extra credits are charged at US$0.04 each, added to your next invoice. The rate is the same on every package, in every market.
Every account has a monthly ceiling on extra credits, set by default to twice your included allowance. An admin can raise it, lower it, or switch extra credits off entirely so the account simply stops at its allowance. When the ceiling is reached, paid actions pause while standard searching, syncing and signals keep working, until the next month resets the balance or an admin lifts the ceiling.
On Insight and Intelligence, admins can also set a limit per person, so one enthusiastic user, or an agent left running over MCP, cannot spend the team’s month in a week. Once someone reaches their own limit their paid actions pause too, while the rest of the team carries on.
Common questions
- Do unused credits roll over?
- No. The balance resets at the start of each billing month.
- Can I buy credits in advance instead?
- There is no separate credit pack to buy. Extra usage is billed after the fact at the same US$0.04, so there is nothing to forecast and nothing to waste.
- Can I get more agentic ai search without paying more per credit?
- Moving up a package is the cheaper route. Insight includes two and a half times the credits of Discovery, and Intelligence five times, for a much smaller step up in licence cost.
- If I unlock the same person twice, do I pay twice?
- No. Once a detail is unlocked on your account it stays unlocked for everyone on it.
- What if my agent runs away over MCP?
- The account ceiling and the per-user limit both apply to MCP. When either is hit, further paid actions stop until the month resets or an admin lifts the limit, so an agent cannot run past what you have set.
- Who can see what the team is spending?
- Admins see usage by person and by action in settings, on every package.