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# Credits

## How Credits Work

DataLab charges credits for any message sent in a chat and additional credits for paid data or tool use - like using a data product that's not owned by another organization or doing a web search.

If your question requires two paid data products or tools, Alkemi charges credits for the initial message and for querying the two paid data products.

Here's a break down of an example prompt to better understand how credits are charged:

> Search the web for technology news and identify businesses, their website domains and stock tickers for the businesses found **(1 credit)**, then for each of those stock tickers, run a query against the @(stock data) product for the performance YTD **(6 credits)** and then run another query against the @(clickstream) product for who the top 5 referral domains are to their websites **(6 credits)**

## How Credits are Priced

Each new account comes with free credits. Additional credits can be purchased à la carte and the cost of each credit is determined by your plan.