Build actions

Building through the connector does not spend Floot credits — the thinking is paid for by your Claude, ChatGPT, or other AI subscription. What Floot meters is the work its own infrastructure does, and the unit is a build action. Generating images is the one thing that also spends credits, covered below.

What counts as one build action

One tool call your assistant makes to Floot is one build action. Reads count the same as writes: listing files, reading a file, running a typecheck, writing code, running SQL, publishing. Any call keeps your project's build machine awake, which is what the meter is really tracking.

Two things never count: failed calls and cancelled calls. A build that goes wrong and retries is not charged for the failure.

Tools that are never metered

Floot exempts 9 tools, so an account that has hit its limit can still check on work in progress, stop it, take an app offline, and open its projects. Floot's own limit message names the 6 your assistant calls:

Status polling (get_job_status, get_publish_status), list_projects,
get_preview_url, cancel_request, and unpublish_app are not metered and
still work; other tools are paused until the reset. Failed and cancelled
calls are never counted.

The other 3 draw Floot's own project list and app preview inside ChatGPT and Claude. Everything else is metered, including orientation reads like get_guides and list_files. Any tool Floot adds later is metered unless it is exempted too.

How many you get

Your day is 24 hours starting at a fixed hour set for your account. New accounts get the hour they signed up, so resets are spread across accounts rather than all landing at one moment. It is not midnight where you are, and it does not follow daylight saving. Plan & usage shows your reset time in your local time, and every limit message from your assistant states the exact instant.

The daily limit is the only one. There is no weekly cap on any plan, so every day starts with the full allowance whatever you used the day before. Unused actions do not carry over.

The daily number is a cap, not a balance. Nothing is banked, and nothing is taken away at the reset: you start the next day with the full number again.

When you upgrade partway through a day

The higher limit applies within about five minutes of the upgrade, but the actions you already used that day still count against it. If you had used 100 on Free, Pro leaves you 900 until your next reset, and the full 1,000 every day after.

Only your Floot plan changes the limit. Buying credits does not, and neither does a paid Claude or ChatGPT subscription. If you pay for Floot and are still held at 100 a day, either you are on an older credit plan (below), or your assistant is connected to a different Floot account from the one you paid on — see Connector troubleshooting.

Build actions are not credits

Build actions and credits are separate meters, and they do not convert into each other.

Build actions

What your AI assistant spends when it calls Floot through the connector. They refill daily and are the meter for connector work.

Credits

What image generation spends, and what the AI features inside your own published app spend when people use it. Paid plans include a monthly credit grant.

One connector tool crosses over. generate_image writes AI images into your project and spends credits as well as a build action. Those credits are billed to the project owner's account, not to the account driving the chat — so generating images in someone else's project spends their credits. The AI features inside a published app bill the same way: off the app owner's account, whoever is using the app.

If you are on an older Floot plan

Plans on the older credit ladder buy credits, not build actions, so over the connector they are metered at the free limit of 100 a day. That catches people out — you are paying, and still getting the free caps. Switching to Pro or Power moves you onto action-based limits. The switch page at https://floot.com/dashboard/billing/switch shows exactly what switching would mean for your account before you commit.

What to know before you open it:

• The switch is one-way. Older plans are closed once you leave one.
• What you pay depends on the price difference. Same price: nothing today. New plan costs more: you pay the difference today. New plan costs less: your billing changes at your next renewal.
• The new build-action limits apply immediately in all three cases.
• Your credits are kept. When the switch takes effect today, unused credits from the current month carry over, up to 100,000, as a one-time bonus that is valid for 60 days. When the new plan costs less, you keep your current credits until renewal instead. Credits already in your balance keep their own expiry dates.
• Nothing else moves. Hosting balance, published apps, domains, and data are untouched.

When you hit the limit

Two things happen at the same time.

• Your assistant gets a refusal instead of the tool result. It names the limit you hit, says when it resets, says what used the day's actions (which AI app and which project, between which times, and how many file reads, edits and checks), and carries a plain Floot URL. The URL is deliberately plain text rather than a link — links get flattened when a reply is copied into an email, and users were left with nothing to click.
• If you have the project open in a browser, Floot surfaces a prompt there too, so the message does not depend on your assistant relaying it.

Which page the URL opens depends on your plan: on Free, the upgrade page; on Pro, a move to Power or an Action Boost; on Power, an Action Boost; on an older credit plan, the switch page. The URL is tied to the Floot account your assistant is connected as. If you open it while signed in to a different account, Floot shows you both accounts before any checkout, so the upgrade lands where your assistant will see it.

The unmetered tools keep working, so your assistant can still poll a running build, cancel a pending request, and take an app offline while you are capped.

Action Boost

On Pro and Power, the limit message also offers an Action Boost: a one-off $5 pack (plus any tax) of 5,000 extra build actions. It lasts for the rest of the day you buy it and all of the next day — your account's days, as above — and packs stack, oldest used first. For the same window, app builds are unlimited and builds started during it never count toward your monthly allowance.

A boost is a single charge and never renews. It takes effect as soon as the payment goes through. Unlimited app builds still means at most 2 building at the same time.

On Power you can also turn on Buy Action Boosts automatically (on the Action Boost page, which Plan & usage links to under Building actions). When the day's actions run out, Floot buys a boost with your saved card and the call goes through, so an agent working on its own keeps going. Each one is the same $5 pack, with tax added where it applies and its own invoice and receipt. There is no limit on how many are bought; turn it off anytime. If a payment is refused you get an email, and after 3 refusals in a row it turns itself off. Only you can turn it on: your AI assistant can't.

Your current plan and its allowances are on the plan page.