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title: "Files & Usage"
description: "What counts as a file, how your monthly allowance is spent, and how to spend less of it."
section: "Manage"
canonical: "https://geordy.ai/docs/credits"
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# Files & Usage

What counts as a file, how your monthly allowance is spent, and how to spend less of it.

## How files work

One file is one format generated for one page: the first build and every refresh after it. So your monthly usage is pages × formats enabled × refreshes per month. That is the same unit your plan allowance is written in and the same one the dashboard counts.

> Refresh frequency is the multiplier most people forget. Ten pages refreshed daily costs thirty times what ten pages refreshed monthly costs, for the same ten pages.

If you have seen this called credits, it is the same thing counted under an older name: one credit was one file. Files are the unit your plan allowance is written in, and the unit the dashboard counts.

## Quick examples

- 1 page, weekly: 1 page × 3 formats × 4.33 ≈ 13 files/month
- Top 5 pages, weekly: 5 × 3 × 4.33 ≈ 65 files/month
- 25 pages, weekly: 25 × 5 × 4.33 ≈ 541 files/month
- 100 pages, monthly: 100 × 5 × 1 = 500 files/month
- 100 pages, daily: 100 × 8 × 30 = 24,000 files/month

## Calculator

_(This section is an interactive calculator on the web page.)_

## Using fewer files

- Refresh weekly unless the page really changes daily
- Enable only the formats you actually deploy - this is the biggest lever
- Mark pages you do not want structured as excluded, so nothing is generated for them
- Start small - 5 pages, weekly refreshes, 3 formats ≈ 65 files/month
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Source: https://geordy.ai/docs/credits
This is a machine-readable markdown version of that page, generated by Geordy.