Example: investigate why customers hesitate to buy.
Diagnose — 0 credits. Assess the offer/need gap and save your review.
Discuss — 1 credit per completed response. Use your connected AI model to draft a customer question.
Act — 1 credit per completed approved Connect outcome. Send the follow-up through a supported connected tool (a Connect).
One of each = 2 ALLYK credits. Model usage is billed separately.
Illustrative calculation. More completed responses or actions use more credits.
Execution requires supported tools, permissions and approvals.
Credit Usage
Your plan includes a monthly allowance of ALLYK credits for completed chat responses and actions.
Completed Diagnostics assessments and saved reviews use 0 credits.
Completed chat responses and supported actions use the allowance shown for your plan.
Approving, rejecting, or editing an existing draft, and viewing history or notes, do not consume credits. Setup, drafts, retries, denied, failed, or archived work never counts as a billable outcome.
Outcome
Credits
When it counts
Deterministic Diagnostics assessment or saved review
0
The assessment or review itself adds no credit charge. Separate completed BYOK chat responses and supported actions follow the rules below.
Completed BYOK chat
1
A model response is returned to the workspace.
Completed approved Connect outcome
1
The approved request receives a confirmed success from the connected service. Editing or discarding its resulting item later does not reverse that completed work.
Completed scheduled preparation run
1
The scheduled review or draft finishes and its output is available. Later archiving does not reverse a completed run.
Completed local or agent operation
1
The selected local or agent capability reports a completed outcome or receipt.
Setup, drafts, retries, denied, failed, or archived work
0
These never count as a completed billable outcome.
BYOK provider tokens
0
They are shown for transparency and billed directly by the selected model provider, not ALLYK.
Every current operation costs at most one credit.
Any increase requires prior notice and a published pricing-table update.
Future multi-credit operations will show their exact cost before running.
At zero credits, new billable work pauses. Saved work stays available.
No automatic overage. Wait for your reset or choose a continuation option.
What uses an ALLYK credit
A coding task uses at most one ALLYK credit, and only when the AI gives you a result. Your model provider bills its own tokens separately.
Coding task outcome
ALLYK credits
When
Completed
1
The AI's change was applied in your project and its checks passed.
Reviewed, no change
1
The AI reviewed your request and proposed no change. Its review is the result, and nothing in your project changes.
Applied, checks failed
1
The AI's change was applied in your project and its checks failed. The change stays for you to review or undo.
ALLYK outage or crash
Free
ALLYK was unavailable or stopped before giving you a result.
A request ALLYK prepared incorrectly
Free
ALLYK sent a malformed request, or sent the AI the wrong input for your task.
Provider error with no valid reply
Free
Your model provider answered with an error, or with no usable reply.
Cancelled before the AI runs
Free
You stopped the task before ALLYK sent anything to the AI.
Why ALLYK
Test Before Building
Compare your offer with what customers say they need.
Choose what to investigate before investing more time or money.
Keep Decision Context
Keep assessments, conversations, notes and documents with your project.
Return to the reasoning when new evidence changes your decision.
Follow Through
Turn the decision into a plan with your chosen AI model.
Use connected tools for supported actions and review what happened.
Try the full workflow with one business question: assess it, plan your response and prepare the next step.
Use your own evidence and review the results. Connected actions require tools, permissions and approvals.
Lower Costs
Use your chosen AI inside ALLYK through Bring Your Own Key (BYOK).
Connect a compatible provider such as DeepSeek, or a supported model you host.
You pay that provider for model usage, or cover your own hosting costs.
You do not need a separate consumer AI chat subscription for BYOK Chat.
Total cost = your ALLYK plan + model API usage or hosting.
Your choice of model can lower costs. Savings depend on usage and hosting.
Self-hosted models need a public HTTPS, OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
The hosted app cannot reach localhost or private-network servers directly.