Every generation on Elyum ends in a verdict. Here's the loop:
1 · Generate
Pick what you're making (or let Elyum route the model for you), write your prompt, and press Generate. The exact Credit price sits on the button before you press it — video is priced per second at the resolution you picked, images per render. The amount is held, not charged.
2 · Judge the previews
Renders come back as watermarked previews. Look at them properly — play the video, zoom the image. Nothing is billed while you decide, and previews never expire: a take stays open, with its Credits on hold, until you give it a verdict.
3 · Keep or kill
Keep — the hold becomes the charge, and the clean, full-quality file unlocks. No watermark, yours to download and use anywhere, commercial work included.
Kill — the hold returns to its original Credit allowance. Returned Credits keep their original expiry date; subscription Credits whose deadline has already passed expire when returned.
Failed renders (errors, timeouts, QC failures) refund themselves automatically and never touch your kill allowance.
Only a kill spends from your monthly allowance: one kill for most models, more for Seedance 2.5, Seedance 2.0 (not Fast or Mini) and Wan 3.0 at higher resolutions (kill allowances). Keeping, leaving a take open, or a failed render never does.