Credits & Usage
How Sheetminer's credit system works and where to see your balance.
Sheetminer runs on a credit system: processing a document costs credits based on its page count, and every account starts with a free monthly allowance.
How credits are spent
Credits are charged when a document is processed (OCR plus layout parsing when you add it to a sheet), based on the number of pages - a 4-page document, for example, costs 8 credits. Once a document is processed, Snip, Table Snip and Search run against it without reprocessing the document or costing further credits, so it’s worth adding a document once and running as many of those as you need. AI Snip is the exception: each AI Snip run costs 1 credit per 2 pages of the document (minimum 1 credit), because it reads the whole document with an AI model to find the fields you ask for. A 4-page document, for example, costs 2 credits per AI Snip run. Setting up AI Snip fields is free: choosing a built-in template, editing fields, or using Generate or Suggest fields to build them with AI doesn’t use credits.
Checking your balance
Your remaining credits are shown in the Extract tab whenever you’re about to upload a document (“Will use N credits to process 1 file. You have N credits remaining.”), and in the account menu at any time.
Free allowance
Every account gets a free allowance of credits each month, which renews automatically. This is enough for occasional or light use without needing a paid plan.
Paid plans
For higher volume, paid plans provide a larger monthly credit allowance. See the pricing section on the homepage for current plans and rates.