100 credits on the house.

No. Buying a plan charges immediately — there is no trial period between choosing a plan and the first charge. Free is not a trial either: there is no clock on it and nothing to cancel. It is simply the plan an account is on until it buys another one.

100 credits a month — three one-minute animations, or five one-minute caption videos, or any mix of the two — and a choice of five animation presets and five caption styles. They refill on the same monthly cycle a paid plan does: Free is a standing plan, not a trial, so there is no clock on it and nothing to cancel. What a paid plan buys is more credits, longer sources, all thirty-one presets and thirty-seven caption styles, and the watermark coming off.

Every Free render carries a burned-in "Created on Cueits" mark, bottom-right. A free render is a real render — the same planner, the same panels, the same export — and the mark coming off is most of what paying buys. It is decided at the moment the frames are burned, so a plan that starts mid-render produces the mark you are entitled to then.

Yes, and on Free too. "1,000 credits a month" means a thousand every month, not a thousand for the year, and they reset on the monthly anniversary of your billing date. Plan credits do not roll over — but credits you BUY never expire, and are only spent once the monthly allowance is gone.

You get the credits back. They are held when you press render and only charged when the video actually lands; a render that fails releases them, and your history shows the line as refunded rather than quietly dropping it. Uploads, transcription, the first plan and beat editing are all free — the render is the one thing that costs.

Because length is the sharpest cost in the product. A ten-minute video takes roughly six times the planning and six times the drawing of a ninety-second one, and holds the single render slot for all of it. It is the honest reason to upgrade rather than a synthetic one.

Five animation presets — Editorial Ledger, Ranked Countdown, Blueprint Grid, Sticky Wall and Chat Thread — and five caption styles: Karaoke, Typewriter, Quiet, Solo Smash and Gradient Sweep. They are complete designs, not samples, and they are deliberately unlike each other so five is enough to see what the product can look like. Every paid plan opens all thirty-one presets and all thirty-seven caption styles. You can preview every one of them on Free, including the locked ones — a look you have only read the name of is not a look you can choose.

The account drops back to Free rather than locking out, and everything you have already made stays — your library does not get held hostage. You keep rendering on Free's monthly allowance, with the watermark back on and the picker back to the five free looks. A video already made in one of the others keeps it, and can still be re-exported.

A talking-head short between 5 and 600 seconds, up to 100MB, as MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV — within whatever your plan allows. Both the length and the size are checked in your browser before the file is sent, so you are not charged minutes of mobile data to be told the video is too long.

The graphic panel is, genuinely — it is redrawn at that size rather than stretched, so the type and the artwork are as sharp as the file allows. The speaker half is your own recording, so if you shot 1080p, that half is scaled up. The export screen tells you when that is the case, beside the option, rather than leaving it to be discovered in the file. We stop at 2K for the same reason: almost nobody shoots 4K on the phone these are made with, and a 4K label on a file whose speaker half is a 1080p upscale promises more than it delivers.

No, and that is the only combination of included options we turn down. Those three multiply the same expensive thing — frames drawn — and together they are more work than one render can finish. Ten minutes at 2K/30 works, and so does five minutes at 2K/60. The export screen greys out the combination and says why, rather than accepting it and failing an hour later.

By the minute of your source video, rounded up. An animation costs 30 credits a minute and a caption video costs 20, so a 90-second animation is 60 credits and a three-minute caption video is 60. 2K costs a quarter more and 60fps a quarter more — every charge is rounded up to a whole ten, and the export screen shows the price and the arithmetic before you commit to it.

If you are on a paid plan, top up for whatever you need — name any amount from $5 upward and the credits are worked out at that amount's rate. It starts at $0.024 a credit and gets cheaper as the amount grows: $0.022 from $10, $0.021 from $25, $0.020 from $50 and $0.019 from $150. Bought credits never expire and are only spent once the month's allowance is gone, so nothing is wasted by topping up early. Upgrading is the cheaper answer if you are running out every month; a top-up is for the month that ran long. Free accounts wait for the monthly reset or pick a plan — a top-up comes with the subscription rather than instead of one.

Dodo Payments, on their hosted pages. Checkout and the customer portal — card, invoices, cancellation — both live on their domain, so card details never touch Cueits.