AI credit usage seems very high
I'm not sure what's happened in the last few weeks, but my credits seem to be SHOOTING down.
I just topped up 10 credits, asked Sonnet 5 Medium “tell me what my uncommitted files are doing” (I haven't opened the project in a long time) and it thought for 1s, worked for 5s, thought for 1s and my credits had dropped to 9.80 credits.
At this rate, I'm going to get only 4 or 5 full conversations for £10.
Is there any way we can monitor the usage?
This feels like a lot of credits for very little AI.
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Hello Dave,
Thank you for your feedback, and I apologize for the experience you had.
Credit usage is calculated dynamically for each interaction based on several factors, primarily the number of tokens used — units of text from both your input and the AI’s response. Since credit usage can vary depending on the length, complexity, and context of a request, the credit cost may differ from one interaction to another.
However, in some cases, there could be other reasons for high quota consumption. To understand and analyze the root cause in your case, I request that you open a ticket with our support team here: https://www.jetbrains.com/support/, and share some details so that we can assist you with the issue.
You can alos check the following to understand more about credit usage: https://helpserver.labs.jb.gg/help/ai-assistant/2025.2/licensing-and-subscriptions.html
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/articles/SUPPORT-A-2448
Warm regards,
Sajal