Pricing & credits
How credits work on Slicy — tiers, top-ups, the 20 % markup, and refunds on failed generations.
Pricing & credits
Slicy is credit-based. Every generation costs a number of credits computed live from the AI provider's current per-call price + Slicy's 20 % markup, rounded to 2 decimals.
Tier overview
| Tier | Price | Credits / month | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slicy free | €0 | 100 (one-time) | No time limit, no credit card. Generations carry a "made with Slicy" watermark on free-tier downloads. |
| Slicy Small | €5 / mo | 500 | First paid tier. No watermark on downloads. |
| Slicy Medium | €15 / mo | 1,500 | Most popular. |
| Slicy Large | €40 / mo | 4,000 | Power users + agencies. |
| Top-up | any amount | 100 credits per €1 | No subscription. Credits never expire. |
Credit math: 1 credit = €0.01 user-facing price. Slicy's gross cost per credit must stay ≤ €0.0083 to be profitable (20 % markup baked in).
What costs credits
- Every paid model node run — fal, OpenAI, Recraft, Google, OpenRouter.
- See /docs/models for typical per-run cost by model.
What's free (every tier)
- BiRefNet background removal.
- Design text overlay (golden-ratio + saliency text placement).
- Cache hits — re-running an identical prompt + settings on the same model uses the dirty-subgraph cache and costs 0 credits.
Refund semantics
- Job fails before provider bills us: automatic refund, no action needed.
- Job fails after provider bills us: Slicy still refunds you. We absorb the upstream cost.
- Provider returns a low-quality output: no automatic refund (the provider charged us), but if you think the model misbehaved badly, email us — we sometimes refund as goodwill.
Top-up vs subscription
- Top-up is the right choice if your usage is sporadic. Credits never expire.
- Subscription is the right choice if you generate regularly — you save vs the per-€1 top-up rate.
How to upgrade / top up
- From the canvas, click your account avatar (top-right).
- Choose Pricing or Top up.
- LemonSqueezy handles checkout — they're our Merchant of Record, so EU VAT is included in the listed price (no surprise tax at checkout).
Cancellation
Subscriptions can be canceled any time from the same account panel. You keep access until the end of the current billing period. Top-up credits never expire even after cancellation.
DSGVO / EU consumer rights
- Right to withdrawal: see slicy.ai/withdrawal.
- Terms of service: slicy.ai/terms.
- Privacy: slicy.ai/privacy.