Credits should carry over each month. At least partially. | Voters

Credits should carry over each month. At least partially.

Sam Bivens

Let's say i have 500 credits this month that I purchased. I bought them with my subscription. But I couldn't program much this month so I only used 100. Well now the next month you charge me another $15 and delete the 400 credits I didn't use? Come on now. Now if I hit 501 credits this month I'll have to purchase more. When you just stole 400 credits from me. Product is amazing by the way. But you guys have to get the payment structure ironed out. I want you guys to make money because I think the product is great. But you guys need to fix this so people like myself don't want to even think about leaving. Because the competitors will copy/steal whatever innovations you guys come up with eventually. You need to be innovative and honest about your payment structure. At least allow 50% of credits to be rolled over. That way when I see $15 come out of my bank account, I don't think "dang.. they just stole 200 credits from me." Instead I'll think "Yes! Now I have even more credits for when I want to spend a week straight coding!"

April 14, 2025

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I completely agree with Sam’s request, and I want to add a few important points.
As users and teams, we are financially committed to Windsurf through monthly or yearly subscription payments. These payments directly support the platform’s sustainability, and as such, we believe we are fully entitled to retain any unused credits and have them fully carried over to the next month—without any reduction.
It’s not acceptable to reset or delete leftover credits simply to match a plan quota. This model fails to account for real-life scenarios where users may take breaks during some weeks or months (due to holidays or other reasons), and then dive deep into development during others. We should not be penalized for this natural variation in usage.
Moreover, there is another critical issue: credit consumption is often unstable. The system occasionally "hallucinates" responses and consumes a large number of credits while delivering irrelevant or unusable output. Currently, there's no way to recover those wasted credits, and it feels like the model is intentionally burning through credits without delivering real value.
In short, the credits we pay for are our rights—they should not disappear, especially when the output doesn't meet expectations. Please consider implementing full credit rollover and improving the stability and fairness of the credit usage system.

Stoyan Manolov

You are nuts if you think this would be a sustainable business model! You pay a subscription on which you have some limits, in this case credits. Next month you start over, they don't steal s*it from you. Does any other company do this? Cursor? Claude? Anyone?

Nathan Sebban

They will never do it

Simeon Williams

Also .. why am I paying $10 for 250 extra credits, when I can spin up a new account for $5 more ($15) and get 500 credits. Better value for money. Plus doesn't me and the new account get an extra 250 credits each (referral), so for $15 I get 750 on new account, plus 250 in the old account, totalling 1000 credits for $15 across the 2? If my math is off, let me know.
Remember you dealing with Devs here, not the general public. We think differently.
Windsurf, you got a good system going on here, but this credit system wasn't great before, got a bit better, but still not 100% there at all.

William Diaz Pabón

Simeon Williams, I propose that for Windsurf to avoid these tricks, it should allow you to pay $15 USD for 500 credits, which is what they sell in the monthly membership, and that additional credits behave as they work today if they accumulate. So there is no difference in credits, but it starts with $15 USD and if you work a lot in the month it continues to be recharged automatically when there are 15 credits left to reach zero (as is the case with additional credits today) and so on everyone is happy.

PS: And follow the recommendations, hehehe

Simeon Williams

Great Idea! Especially as Free Google CLI just dropped. This AI ground is not stable, the lost of credits is a hard thing to take when the next month you got work to do and you have no extra credits left, that was taken from me .. that I paid for! Now I can easily switch over to Google Gemini Pro for free to carry on.

Windsurf, you need to understand, I paid you $15 for those 500 credits, and taking them from me, what I paid for, fells wrong! There has to be some middle ground.

Juan Pedro Iriarte Paolina

Totally agree

Joseph

Yes!

Ivan Dorna

I agree!

Fabrice

excellent proposal

C. David Moreno R.

Paid credits should carry over without expiring.

As users, we support the product financially each month because we believe in it. But when we can’t use all our credits and they disappear, it feels unfair and frustrating. Allowing credits to roll over shows respect for our investment and builds trust. It gives us real flexibility—some months we’re busy, others we dive deep. It also reduces cancellations and improves the overall experience. Leading platforms like Audible already do this because they understand a key truth: when users feel they’re winning, they stay loyal and happy.

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