Knowledgebase

Pikkumies runs on the AI credits your Pulsed Media services earn. Every question you ask it costs some credits; how many depends on how much work the question takes.

See what you have left

• When you start it. In a terminal, pikkumies prints a credits line before the session opens, for example 💳 4.7M credits ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱ 94% left · ≥1.1M tokens · today 35k.
• In tmux. pikkumies tmux keeps the same line in the tmux status bar and refreshes it every minute.
• Ask it. "How many AI credits do I have left?" It answers with its own credits tool and never reads your key.
• doctor. pikkumies doctor shows the credits left on your key.

Reading the credits line

• The first number is your balance, rounded down.
• The bar and the percentage compare the balance with your latest grant of credits. A ~ before the percentage means that comparison is approximate.
• ≥ … tokens is a floor: at least that many tokens of model work are left at the model's highest rate. In practice you usually get more.
• today is what was spent so far today (UTC).

What uses credits, and what does not

• Uses credits: each question and every step the agent takes to answer it. A question that makes it run several checks and read documentation costs more than a quick answer.
• Does not: the daily update of Pikkumies, pikkumies doctor, and the credits line itself, which reads your balance without asking the model anything.
• Scheduled jobs you set up with Pikkumies run the agent too, so they use credits when they run.

How many credits each plan earns, and what else they pay for: What can I do with AI credits on my seedbox? and Pulsed Media AI Credits.