Winds

Winds are IP Bot's prepaid usage currency. Running a Power costs Winds; the balance is fueled by your weekly allowance, optional top-ups, and refunds on failed runs.

How Winds are spent

When a Power runs, Winds are drawn in this order:

• Weekly allowance first — resets every Monday.
• then à-la-carte top-ups — these never expire.
• then overage — only if you're on pay-as-you-sail (see below).

Spend is tracked in an append-only ledger; your balance is the sum of entries for the current period. Failed Power runs are automatically refunded — you only pay for successful work.

What 40 Winds/week buys you

A quick ready-reckoner: the free Dinghy plan's 40 Winds/week covers roughly —

• ~20 Instagram comment replies or DM responses (2 Winds each), or
• ~13 image-to-draft runs (3 Winds each), or
• ~8 blog posts from a prompt (5 Winds each).

Each successful run debits a fixed cost; failed runs cost nothing. Mix and match — see the per-Power costs in the Powers catalog.

How Winds are acquired

• Weekly refill — every plan gets a weekly allowance (free Dinghy = 40 Winds/week).
• Top-ups — buy à-la-carte packs that never expire.
• Refunds — returned automatically when a run fails.

Overage modes

• Drop anchor (anchor) — pause when you hit zero. No surprise charges. This is the default.
• Pay-as-you-sail (payg) — auto top-up so automations keep running, within your daily spend cap.

Plans

À-la-carte packs: 100 Winds for $8 · 500 Winds for $40 · 1,500 Winds for $110. See the full pricing page.

Check & top up programmatically

query { getWindsBalance }                     # current balance + period
mutation { createWindsTopupSession(packId: "medium") }  # Stripe checkout for a pack