Credits, Widgets, and the Marketplace

Beyond your personal questions, ounie has a small credit system that powers website widgets, the marketplace, and a few other features.

What credits are

Credits are Ounie's universal currency. One credit equals one cent of face value. Your own private questions never use credits — Free runs on its question bank, and Pro and Team run on a monthly quota. Credits are spent only for things like website-widget questions beyond your included allowance, paid marketplace brains, Landing Studio composition, and Auto-Research runs.

Buying credits

You buy credit packs in a one-time checkout from your billing settings, on any plan, and credits never expire:

• Starter — 1,000 credits for $10
• Growth — 5,000 credits for $40
• Scale — 20,000 credits for $120

Owners of paid brains also earn credits when their brain is asked, and can cash earned credits out to USD.

Website widgets

A widget embeds one of your brains on another site as a read/ask-only "Ask" bubble, so your visitors can ask questions answered from your brain. Add it with a one-line embed script that injects a launcher bubble and a chat iframe pointing at your brain. You can customize the name, accent color, light/dark theme, a greeting, and suggested questions, with a live preview as you edit.

Every plan can create unlimited widgets. Widget questions are answered first from your plan's included allowance — a one-time 1,000 lifetime on Free, 5,000 per month on Pro, and 25,000 per month on Team, pooled across all your widgets — and then from your prepaid credits at half a credit each. Protections include an origin allowlist, a per-widget daily cap, and a per-brain cap, so a single brain can't drain your allowance or wallet. Free and Pro widgets show a "powered by Ounie" badge; Team can remove it.

The marketplace

The marketplace lets you sell access to a brain. You price a brain per question (in credits) or as a pass, and buyers spend credits to ask it — after a few free preview questions. To sell, you need a paid plan and a connected stripe account for payouts (with identity verification); buying never requires a plan. The platform fee is 20% on Pro and 15% on Team. Pro can publish up to three paid listings; Team has unlimited listings.

Agents can pay too

Listings can be made "agent-ready" so autonomous AI agents can discover and pay for access programmatically, in addition to human buyers — opening a machine-to-machine market for your brain's grounded, cited answers.