Almost every AI music tool sells credits rather than songs, and the numbers can feel abstract until you map them to what you actually want to make. This guide lays out what each action costs on Autunes, where credits come from, what they cost in rupees, and how to plan a month of work without running short.
Why AI music uses credits at all
Different jobs take very different amounts of computing work. Rendering a full song with vocals takes far more than re-singing one line or splitting a song into stems. A flat monthly fee would either overcharge light users or limit heavy ones. Credits let each action cost roughly what it takes to produce, and let you choose how to spend your allowance.
The Autunes price list in credits
These are the costs for the main actions. Some tools are only on Pro and Creator, as noted.
- Full song on Zori5 Turbo: 10 credits.
- Full song on Zori5.5 XL, the richer engine: 15 credits.
- Short-form audio for reels and jingles: 15, 30 or 60 seconds cost 2, 3 or 5 credits, depending on the template.
- Variation, a fresh take of the same song: 5 credits (one on Free, unlimited on Pro and Creator).
- Edit section, re-singing one line: 3 credits (Pro and Creator).
- Auto-fix pronunciation: 10 credits (Pro and Creator).
- Stems, six tracks per song: 5 credits (Pro and Creator).
- Layer Studio, one added instrument: 5 credits (Pro and Creator).
- Jam, sing or hum and Autunes adds the band: 10 credits, every plan.
- Voice clone, an Autunes song in your voice: 8 credits (Creator).
- Long Forms such as a chalisa or qawwali up to about 12 minutes: 30 credits (Pro and Creator).
Where credits come from
Free accounts get 15 credits once, on signup. The Free plan has no daily refill. Pro gives 300 credits with each 30-day pass and Creator gives 1,600. On a yearly plan, the same monthly amount arrives when you buy and again every 30 days for the year, not all at once.
Anyone can top up: 100 credits for ₹199, or a custom amount from 5 to 500 credits at about ₹2 a credit. Top-up credits never expire. On Pro and Creator there is also a safety net: when your balance falls below 20, it is brought back up to 20 at the start of each new day while the pass runs.
AudPods on paid plans draw from a separate AudPod balance: Pro adds 200 AudPod credits a month and Creator 500, so narrated stories do not eat into your song credits.
What a credit costs in rupees
On Pro, ₹599 for 300 credits is ₹2 a credit, so a Turbo song works out to about ₹20 and an XL song about ₹30. On Creator, ₹2,999 for 1,600 credits is about ₹1.87 a credit, roughly ₹19 for a Turbo song and ₹28 for an XL song. Custom top-ups follow the same ₹2 rate less a rupee: 5 credits for ₹9, 50 for ₹99, 300 for ₹599.
The plans also include things credits do not measure, such as downloads of any song, a commercial licence and private songs by default. That is why Pro can be better value than a top-up of the same size even though the credit price is similar.
What 300 credits look like in a real month
Take a YouTuber who makes Hindi songs for a weekly channel on Pro. Four main songs on Zori5.5 XL cost 60 credits. Two takes each, to pick the better one, doubles that to 120. Stems for all four, to remix the vocal level in an editor, add 20. Ten single-line fixes add 30. Eight 30-second reel clips to promote the songs cost 24. That is 194 credits, leaving 106 for experiments.
Or a wedding planner on Creator making personalised songs for clients: 1,600 credits cover about 106 XL songs, or 80 XL songs plus 4 Long Forms for a pooja and a full set of stems and fixes.
What credits do not pay for
Some purchases are priced in rupees, not credits, so it helps to know which.
- The ₹9 single-song licence for downloading a Free-plan song.
- Full lyric videos on the Free plan, ₹19 (free on Pro and Creator).
- The Karaoke pass, ₹99 for 30 songs or ₹199 unlimited for 30 days. Karaoke never uses song credits.
Ways to spend fewer credits
Small habits make the same balance go much further.
- Fix one wrong line for 3 credits rather than remaking the song for 15.
- Draft on Zori5 Turbo, then render the keeper on Zori5.5 XL.
- Set takes per generation to one when you are only exploring.
- Use short-form lengths for reels instead of a full song you will cut down.
- Write lyrics with clear section tags before you generate, so the first render is closer.
Refunds on failures, and common mistakes
If a generation fails, for example a song or a stem split that does not complete, the credits are returned to your balance. You are paying for finished output, not attempts.
The usual mistakes are counting takes as free (each take is paid for), expecting a daily refill on Free (there is none), and buying credits when what you really need is a paid feature like stems, which a top-up alone does not unlock on the Free plan.