Tokens

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Understand AI tokens

AI tokens are a complex topic related to all AI apps, not just Bolt. For details background on tokens in AI, check out Nvidia blog | Explaining Tokens — the Language and Currency of AI.

For Bolt specifically, it’s important to note that the majority of token usage is related to syncing your project’s file system to the AI: the larger the project, the more tokens used per message.

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Reduce your token usage

Refer to the resources on prompting effectively and maximizing token efficiency.

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Buy more tokens

You can upgrade to higher-tier plans that include more tokens in My Subscription. You can also purchase token reloads there, although upgrading your plan is usually more cost-effective.

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Token reloads versus monthly tokens

Here is a clip of our CEO Eric explaining token reload pricing. We’d love to hear your feedback on this topic!

Token reload isn’t available on Teams plans.

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Token rollover

Tokens associated with a paid subscription don’t roll over from month to month.

Tokens associated with a token reload do rollover from month to month, but you must have a paid subscription to use these tokens.

To provide better token pricing through volume discounting, Bolt reserves GPUs from the upstream inference providers. The providers bill for this regardless of whether the compute is used.