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AI credits: there are none to buy
Why TeachForge sells no AI balance, and the three ways you use AI instead.
Your chatbot, your key or your GPU. Nothing in between.
No credits, no allowance
TeachForge does not sell AI credits, and no plan comes with an AI allowance. There is no balance to top up, no per-request charge from us, and no queue for a machine of ours. If you have seen an AI Credits tab mentioned somewhere, it is not part of the product you use.
What TeachForge does is the part that makes AI useful for teaching: it compiles the prompt. The AI panel turns your description, your choices and the task's rules into one complete prompt, then checks whatever comes back before it fills the form. Which AI answers that prompt is your choice, and it stays on your side.
The three ways
| Way | What you do | Who pays |
|---|---|---|
| Copy Prompt | Copy the prompt into any chatbot you already use, then paste its reply back. | Nobody, or your own chatbot subscription |
| My API key | Save your own provider key once; after that it is one click. | Your provider, directly |
| My GPU | Point TeachForge at a GPU endpoint you run; after that it is one click. | Nobody: it is your hardware |
Copy Prompt works on every plan with no setup. My API key and My GPU are set up under Profile → My AI Endpoints, which you see on Standard and above when bring-your-own AI is enabled for the site. The details are in Use your own provider key and Connect your own GPU.
All three send the same compiled prompt, with the same task defaults. A better result from one of them comes from the model you chose, not from a different path through TeachForge. The same prompt everywhere compares them side by side.
Which one to start with
- Just starting, or on Free: Copy Prompt. It costs nothing, and you use whichever chatbot you already trust.
- You already pay an AI provider: your key. Nothing new to run, and one click per build.
- You build a great deal, or your school runs its own hardware: your GPU. Generation costs nothing per request; the browser tab stays open while it runs, because your browser is what talks to the GPU.
Copy Prompt is the way people skip and should not. It needs no account details and no configuration, and the only cost is a paste. When a prompt is too long for your chatbot's box, Download prompt saves it as a text file you can attach instead.
What it costs you
Your TeachForge plan is the only thing TeachForge charges you for; its page is Plans. Anything spent on AI is spent with whoever runs it for you: your chatbot subscription, your provider's bill for your key, or the electricity for your own GPU. TeachForge never sees that bill and never adds to it.
Your provider key is encrypted when it is stored and never shown back to you. Clear on My AI Endpoints removes it from TeachForge (revoke it with your provider too if it was ever exposed), and Copy Prompt keeps working without it.