# Billing and plans

> What's included, how usage is counted, and managing your subscription.

# Billing and plans

## How usage is counted

Rendering costs money because generating narration audio and avatar footage costs money. Decodx
makes that explicit rather than hiding it in a credit abstraction:

- Every job is **estimated before it runs**, broken down by what actually costs money.
- You **approve** the estimate; nothing paid happens before that.
- **Cached work is not re-charged.** A re-render that only touches one scene is priced like one
  scene.

That last point is the whole economic argument for Decodx — see
[How it works](/docs/how-it-works).

### How the estimate is worked out

One AI minute covers each started minute of finished video. A scene with narration stays on screen
long enough for its narration to be spoken at your project's voice speed, so the estimate counts
that full length — the same length the video renders at, and the amount a render uses. Avatar
footage counts at a higher rate because it costs more to generate. If nothing changed since your
last finished render, rendering again is free. The estimate next to **Render video** also shows how
many AI minutes you have left this month.

## Plans

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Current plans and what each includes are on the [pricing page](/pricing).

## Managing your subscription

Change plan, update payment details and download invoices from billing settings. A billing portal
handles payment methods and receipts.

### Need more minutes?

As a rough guide, 1 AI minute makes about 1 minute of narrated video, so the meter in billing
settings shows how much narrated video your minutes left will make. Anyone in the workspace can
choose **Request more minutes**, there or whenever they run out. Add how many minutes you need and
what they're for if you like. Our team and your workspace admins are notified, and we reply by
email. A workspace can send one request an hour.

## Your account

Profile and preferences, two-factor authentication, and active sessions are managed in account
settings, separately from workspace administration.