When your WorkBuddy credits run out, check your balance and expiry date first, rather than topping up straight away. Credits are issued monthly, valid only for that month, and do not roll over. When the system deducts credits, it takes the earliest-expiring package first. Gifted credits are valid for 1 month from the date they arrive. After membership expires, your allowance drops back to the trial version, while credits left in an add-on pack can still be used. Knowing which package expires first is the only way to make sense of the balance.
Where Credits Go, and Why They Disappear Faster and Faster
All conversation and task requests consume credits. How much depends on two things: the unit price of the model used, and the complexity of the task itself. Simple questions cost little; long code analysis, multi-turn conversations, and knowledge-base searches cost more. The stronger the model and the more reasoning involved, the more is deducted per request. There is also one easily overlooked rule: Buddy One credits share a single balance across WorkBuddy, Tencent Docs, ima, and Tencent Weiyun. Products linked to the same account all deduct from that same balance, so heavy use in one product leaves less in the others.
Stop the Bleeding in Three Steps, Then Decide Whether to Top Up
First, open the credits page and see how many remain and which package expires first. Break tasks down first: split a large task into several parts, feed in only the materials needed, and use fewer follow-up rounds. Second, check whether a loop-execution confirmation is stuck. When the system pauses before a tool call and prompts you, choose Terminate Request: consumption that has already occurred but produced no final answer will enter a refund assessment. An ordinary manual cancellation does not enter that assessment — do not confuse the two. If you choose Continue Execution in a loop confirmation, that call runs as normal and does not count as a loop; the consecutive-call counter resets to zero and starts accumulating again. Read the prompt clearly before tapping, and do not treat every pause as a fault. Third, decide: buy an add-on pack for occasional overuse, and upgrade your plan only if you consistently run short. Before upgrading, check the allowances for each version on the official credits page. One final reminder: do not hand your account to a third-party tool that promises to farm credits. If your account and session security are lost, the credits saved are not worth it.
