Weekly allowance
How the weekly allowance is released, why it does not roll over, and what that means for how you use it.
WARNING
There are no paid plans today. This describes a plan that is built but not launched. Nothing here affects the free application.
A plan includes an allowance of credits, released every 7 days.
It does not roll over
This is the term most worth understanding before you pay for anything, so it is stated plainly rather than buried:
IMPORTANT
Unused allowance is discarded when the week resets. If your weekly allowance is $10 and you use $3, the remaining $7 does not carry forward. A fresh $10 is released and the old balance is gone.
We are not going to pretend this is a feature for you. It is how the plan is priced: a fixed monthly price buys a weekly ceiling rather than a bank of credits, and unused allowance is where the plan makes money. Grok works the same way, for the same reason.
The practical consequence is that a plan is worth having if you use it most weeks. If you code in bursts a few times a month, purchased credits will probably suit you better, because those do not expire.
When it resets
The reset is every 7 days from when your plan started, not on a calendar week.
Your account page and nala usage both show the exact time.
Resetting does not touch purchased credits. Those are a separate balance and never expire while your account is open.
What gets used first
Always the allowance, then purchased credits:
run costs 100 credits
allowance remaining 60 → 60 from allowance, 40 from purchased
allowance remaining 0 → 100 from purchased
This ordering exists so you never spend money you did not have to. It is the same order in the ledger, the usage panel, and the CLI, because a breakdown that disagreed with the charge would be a bug report.
Sizing
The allowance is derived from the plan price rather than set independently, so it cannot drift from what the plan costs. Note that a year contains 52 weekly allowances against 12 monthly payments — 4.33 allowances per month, not 4 — which is accounted for in the derivation.
What happens when it runs out
The allowance being used up is a normal state, not a failure. See When you run out.