Pay-as-you-go Credits
Not everyone wants a monthly subscription. If you only cut a few projects a year — a kitchen, a wardrobe, a batch of shelves — paying every month for optimizations you rarely use makes no sense. Credit packs let you pay once for a set number of optimizations and use them whenever you need, with no recurring bill.
This is a CutOptim-only option. Competitors sell monthly subscriptions or expensive perpetual desktop licenses — none offer a one-time top-up.
How credits work
CutOptim gives every free account 3 optimizations per month. When you reach that limit, instead of forcing you onto a subscription, you can simply buy a credit pack:
- Your 3 free monthly optimizations are always used first.
- Once they are gone, each additional optimization that month draws one credit.
- At the start of the next month, your free quota resets to 3 again — credits are only touched after the free quota runs out.
The monthly free quota does not accumulate. Unused free runs are lost at month end. Credits are different — they stay valid for 12 months and stack across purchases.
Buying a credit pack
There are two packs:
| Pack | Optimizations |
|---|---|
| Starter | 10 |
| Value | 25 |
The current price for your currency is shown on the Pricing page. Both packs are valid for 12 months from the date of purchase. You can buy a pack from three places:
- The Pricing page, in the Pay as you go section.
- The in-app prompt that appears when you reach your monthly limit.
- The Buy more link on your dashboard once you hold credits.
Checkout is a single secure payment through Lemon Squeezy (our Merchant of Record, EU VAT handled). There is nothing to cancel afterwards.
Using your credits
Credits are spent automatically — there is no button to press. After your monthly free quota is used up, the next optimization simply consumes a credit. CutOptim always draws from the pack that expires soonest, so nothing goes to waste.
Every feature is free on every plan. Credits are not about unlocking tools — every optimization already runs with all of them: the material inventory, material-specific mode, cost optimization, Excel / DXF / SVG export, the step-by-step sawing plan, and a clean PDF. What a credit buys is one extra run beyond your 3 free monthly optimizations.
Validity and expiry
Each pack lasts 12 months. Your dashboard shows:
- your current balance (total unused credits across all active packs), and
- the earliest expiry date — the day your soonest-expiring pack runs out.
Buy a top-up at any time; new credits stack on top of what you already have.
Credits or subscription — which should I choose?
Every feature is available on both — and on the free plan too — the difference is only how you pay for runs:
- Choose credits if you optimize occasionally — a few projects spread across the year. Pay once, no commitment, and every run still has every tool.
- Choose Pro if you optimize regularly every month. A subscription swaps paying per run for unlimited optimizations; after roughly three or four monthly projects it is the cheaper option.
There is no wrong answer — start with credits, and switch to Pro whenever your usage grows.