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Credits, daily caps, and Deep Search explained

Sep 10, 20261 min read133 words

How the credit system keeps pricing fair, what a Deep Search really is, and when it is worth spending one.

FaceGPT runs on credits so you only pay for what you use. Here is how the system fits together.

Every standard face search costs a single credit. Your plan grants a pool of credits per period, and some plans add a daily cap to keep usage fair across everyone.

What makes Deep Search different

Deep Search is a more thorough pass that crawls forums, archives, and unindexed sources a normal scan skips. It draws from a separate pool, included in paid plans and toppable with packs that never expire.

Use a normal search to start. Reach for Deep Search when the trail goes cold.

Because deep packs never expire and stack with any subscription, they are a good way to keep a reserve for the searches that really matter.

  • credits
  • deep search
  • billing
Written by
The FaceGPT Team
Engineering & Research, FaceGPT

We build the face search pipeline behind FaceGPT — detection, embeddings, and the index that serves them in under a second.

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