Credits & plans
Prices change
The figures here are a snapshot of the official docs at one point in time and are for reference only. Check the current pricing on the official site before buying.
Shared with CodeBuddy
WorkBuddy and CodeBuddy share one account and one credit pool. No separate subscription needed.
Personal plans
Since 1 July 2026, the single "professional" plan expanded into standard / advanced / ultimate.
| Free | Standard | Advanced | Ultimate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly | Free | ¥99/mo | ¥199/mo | ¥999/mo |
| Monthly auto-renew (30% off) | — | ¥70/mo | ¥140/mo | ¥700/mo |
| Annual (30% off) | — | ¥840/yr | ¥1,680/yr | ¥8,400/yr |
| Annual auto-renew (further 20% off) | — | ¥672/yr | ¥1,344/yr | ¥6,720/yr |
| Base credits / month | 500 | 2,000 | 4,000 | 20,000 |
| Bonus credits / month (promo) | — | 2,000 | 5,000 | 30,000 |
| Credits per month (promo) | 500 | 4,000 | 9,000 | 50,000 |
| Inline code completion | 5,000/mo (unlimited during promo) | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Automated tasks | 3 (99 during promo) | 15 (99 promo) | 30 (99 promo) | 99 |
| Model selection | Auto routing (all models during promo) | All models | All models | All models |
| Projects | 5 per person | 10 | 15 | 20 |
| Project members | 3 per project (5 during promo) | 5 | 8 | 10 |
| Personal assistants | 3 per person | 5 | 8 | 10 |
| Suits | Zero-cost trial | Light daily assistance | Frequent, multi-project work | Heavy use on complex projects |
Cross-file understanding and comment-to-code are on all four tiers.
Personal top-up packs
Available to paid members (standard and above):
| Validity | Size | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1 month | 1,000 credits | ¥50 |
There is no permanent purchase entry
When a paid member's monthly credits are close to running out, a prompt appears in WorkBuddy or under personal home → subscription management. Buy and use immediately.
Enterprise plans
| Enterprise Ultimate (SaaS) | Enterprise Private (private cloud) | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | ¥198 per seat, from 1 seat | ¥316 per seat, from 100 seats |
| Annual | ¥2,376 per seat, from 1 seat | ¥3,792 per seat, from 100 seats |
| Credits | 2,000 per person, refreshed monthly | 2,000 per person, refreshed monthly |
| Credit use | Shared across the team | Shared across the team |
| Chat | Unmetered | Unmetered |
Enterprise top-up packs
| Validity | Size | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6 months | 2,000 credits | ¥100 |
| 6 months | 5,000 credits | ¥245 |
| 6 months | 10,000 credits | ¥480 |
| 6 months | 50,000 credits | ¥2,375 |
| 6 months | 200,000 credits | ¥9,200 |
How credits work
What they are
WorkBuddy meters large-model compute with credits. Every conversation-related request costs credits, and the amount depends on two variables:
Model token pricing. Stronger models reason better and know more, but their tokens cost more to process.
Task complexity. A short question costs little; long code analysis, multi-turn conversations and knowledge-base retrieval scale up.
Deduction order
The system spends whichever credits expire soonest (standard, advanced, ultimate, top-up packs). Where expiry dates match, base credits go before bonus credits.
Expiry
Personal:
- Monthly membership runs from the purchase date to the same date next month (bought 5 November → valid to 5 December); annual runs a calendar year
- On expiry the monthly allowance drops to the free tier's
- Top-up packs run from purchase date to the same date next month
- If the paid plan expires while a top-up pack still has credits, you can keep using the pack until it expires or runs out
- Credits are issued monthly, valid that month, and do not roll over; bonus credits expire one month from arrival
Enterprise:
- Runs from the purchase date to the same date next month
- On expiry the organisation loses access to all product functionality
No roll-over
Unused credits do not carry into next month. Use them.
What burns credits fastest
| Burn rate | What you did | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Very high | Summoning an expert team | Several experts in parallel over multiple turns — officially 3–5× a single expert |
| Very high | Long conversations with Max mode on | Context is never compressed; every turn resends the full history |
| High | Context window at 1M | Every turn is billed against the big window, and a bigger window does not make it smarter |
| High | Complex task plus complex Skill | Many tool calls, many correction rounds |
| Medium | Summarising connector data | Connector reads and writes are free; understanding them is not |
| Medium | Automations | Daily means 30 runs a month, which adds up |
| Low | Short questions, format conversion, copy polishing | Single turn, short context |
| Free | Memory extraction | Officially at WorkBuddy's own expense |
| Free | Browsing Inspiration, reading mail in the Agent Mail UI | Never enters model context |
| Free | Library storage, organising, searching, manual editing | Only AI processing is billed |
| Free | Accepting or rejecting AI revisions | — |
Four habits that keep the bill down
- Leave the context window at 200K and Max mode off. Raise it only for genuinely long documents.
- One task per conversation. A conversation that runs too long makes you pay for irrelevant history every turn. When it drifts, start a new task.
- Prove the direction on a cheap tier first. Validate in fast mode, then switch to maximum for the final run.
- Cost an automation before enabling it. 30 credits a run × once a day = 900 credits a month, nearly a quarter of the standard plan.
Upgrading
You can upgrade to a higher tier at any time during a subscription. The remaining value of the current plan is prorated automatically.
Where
The avatar dropdown inside WorkBuddy → upgrade next to the current plan; or Settings → Account; or the admin console → plan and usage.
Billing
The system charges the new plan's full price, then automatically refunds the current plan's remaining value to the original payment account. You only pay the difference.
Remaining value:
- Monthly: monthly price × (1 − credits used ÷ total monthly credits)
- Annual: remaining full months × average monthly price + average monthly price × (1 − this month's credits used ÷ total monthly credits)
Only base credits count towards the calculation; bonus credits do not.
Key rules
Upgrades only, no downgrades
The amount you pay must exceed the amount refunded.
Monthly-to-monthly, annual-to-annual, monthly-to-annual and annual-to-monthly are all supported, though annual-to-monthly requires buying more months than the original plan has remaining.
The minimum purchase period is the remaining validity rounded up to a whole month or year.
Credits:
- Credits restart on the new cycle
- Remaining base credits from the old plan are reclaimed, with the new plan's full allowance issued
- Bonus credits are also reclaimed and reissued under the current bonus scheme
- New credits take effect before old ones expire, so there is no gap
- Top-up packs are unaffected — not reclaimed, keeping their validity and balance
Paying the difference:
- The new contract is signed before the old one is cancelled; you do not have to cancel manually, and the old plan's remaining value returns automatically
- Monthly and annual auto-renew subscriptions must cancel the old contract first, which converts the current plan to a monthly purchase, and then upgrade
- After a subscription expires you can only buy new, not upgrade
An example
A standard monthly member at ¥99, with 4,000 credits this month (2,000 base + 2,000 bonus), 1,000 used, 20 days of validity remaining, upgrading to advanced monthly at ¥199.
- Remaining value = 99 × (1 − 1000 ÷ 2000) = ¥49.5
- You pay ¥199; ¥49.5 returns to the original payment account
- New validity: upgrade date plus one month
- New credits: 9,000 issued in full; the remaining 3,000 reclaimed (base and bonus both)
- Top-up packs unaffected
Renewing
Manual: official site → avatar → personal home → plan and usage → renew next to the current plan → confirm and pay.
Auto-renewal: official site → personal home → plan and usage → manage under the subscription plan.
On expiry: you drop to the free tier. Content already generated is unaffected; advanced features are restricted.
Maximum term: up to 30 months. At the cap, existing entitlements are unaffected.
Refund rules
The conditions are strict
Each product order under an account carries one refund entitlement.
- Monthly (including auto-renew): refundable within 24 hours of payment, provided no credits from that order have been used (including promotional bonus credits)
- Annual (including auto-renew): refundable within 7 calendar days of payment, provided no credits from that order have been used; annual members who subscribed before the current pricing took effect are not eligible
- Top-up packs and redemption codes are not refundable
"No credits used" is a hard gate — try it once and you cannot refund. So run the free tier for a week before choosing a tier.
The process
- Sign in to Tencent Cloud, go to submit a ticket, and find the product
- Fill in the details and contact information and submit
- Support processes it within 3 working days
- On approval, the refund returns by the original route within 5–10 working days
- Check the status on the Tencent Cloud order management page (marked "refunded")
- If declined, the outcome is on your tickets page
Checking usage
Sign in at workbuddy.cn → avatar → personal home → plan and usage.
You will see your current subscription plus available and used credits per resource pack. Enterprise members also see the allowance their company assigned.
Invoices
Personal: personal home → "Billing and invoices" → "View invoices" → the Tencent Cloud console invoice management.
Enterprise: enterprise admin console → "Order management" → "Invoice management" → the Tencent Cloud console. Sign in with the enterprise's bound Tencent Cloud UIN.
Legacy user transition
Paid members from before 1 July 2026 keep their entitlements and gain the new capabilities automatically, with nothing to do:
- Allowance upgrade: base 1,500 + free-tier 500 becomes the standard plan's 4,000 per month from the next billing cycle
- No gap: the free tier's 500 credits stop working from 1 July 2026, and 500 credits are issued once during July to cover the current cycle
- Capability upgrade: unlimited code completion and all models available
| Member type | Price and transition |
|---|---|
| Monthly auto-renew active | Six months of price protection: ¥58/mo until 31 December 2026, then ¥70/mo from 1 January 2027 |
| Monthly, no auto-renew | Entitlements run to expiry, then the new pricing applies |
| Annual | Entitlements run to expiry, then the new pricing applies |
The free tier's 500 credits are no longer issued once you have a paid plan. Cancelling auto-renewal after the current pricing took effect means repurchasing at current prices.