How Actions add up.

An Action measures what your request really costs: the text the assistant reads and writes to answer you, and its searches on the web. A simple question costs a fraction of an Action; a long request, more.

An Action is not money. It is not resold, not exchanged, not transferred from one Apple account to another, and not refunded in money (except in the cases of the refund policy).

Where your Actions come from. From the monthly volume of your Plan, reset at each period, with no carry-over.

The scale is the same for everyone. In practice (measured in September 2026, for guidance):

• A simple message: 0.3 to 0.5 Action.
• A message that consults your data (nights, meals, budget): about 0.7.
• A message after a few minutes of pause: up to 2.5 more, while the service re-reads the conversation.
• A meal photo analysed: about 0.5.
• A message with web search: 3 to 4.
• An image created: 12.4 Actions, whatever the format — as much as 40 to 50 simple messages.
• A multi-step request: each step counts, 20 steps at most.
• The titles and memories the assistant draws from a conversation: from 0.1 (Premium only).
• Distress detection, night sounds, and everything that does not go through the assistant (entering a meal, logging a night, tracking a budget, exporting): 0.

The exact scale. The cost follows the length of the text, counted in “tokens” (one token is about three quarters of a word):

• 56.5 Actions per million tokens read.
• 5.65 Actions per million tokens re-read from the service’s memory (7 on the audio channel).
• 70.625 Actions per million tokens put into memory the first time.
• 191 Actions per million tokens written.
• 0.29 Action per web search, and 0.29 Action per web page read.
• 12.4 Actions per image created ($0.024754 paid to the provider).
• At least 0.1 Action per answer.

Number of images, on top of the Action volume: 1 a month on Free, 10 during the 7-day trial, 30 a month on Premium. 5 images at most per request: beyond that, the request is refused and costs nothing.

This is the most important point of this page. A simple question costs less than an Action. But when you ask the assistant to search, write, check and start over — a seven-day meal plan, a project split into tasks — it can take up to 20 steps, each counted. A single message can then cost several Actions.

• The app does not yet show the cost before sending: it shows what you have used during the month.
• If a request fails along the way, the successful steps stay counted, not the one that failed.
• A request where no step succeeds costs nothing.

• “How did my night go?”: about 0.7.
• A photo of the meal and “what does that come to?”: about 1.
• “Suggest what comes next in my day”: about 0.5.
• “Prepare my groceries and my plan for the week” (5 steps): about 3.
• “Summarise my spending this month”: about 0.7.
• Total: about 6 Actions, up to about fifteen if every message arrives after a pause.

With the 15 Actions of Free, that is one to two days of assistant use, not a month: Free is for discovering. With the 1,000 Actions of Premium, that day weighs less than 2% of the month.

No Action is counted when:

• the answer fails (outage, network error, message refused);
• the answer is interrupted before the end (you stop, you close, the connection drops);
• the service itself resends a request after an error;
• the request is refused because you have no Actions left;
• the assistant detects distress;
• you use the Spaces without the assistant.

The service sets Actions aside at the start of a request, then counts them if the answer is complete, or returns them if it is not. An unconfirmed hold cancels itself after 15 minutes.

• Free: 15 Actions a month. The four Spaces with no limit, the assistant within that limit, and a monthly taste of the advanced features.
• Premium: 1,000 Actions a month on monthly, 1,500 on the 3-month plan, 2,000 on the 6-month plan. The long plans are not cheaper: they give more Actions every month.
• 7-day free trial: 500 Actions.

The detail of the Plans is in the subscription policy.

The monthly volume starts fresh at the beginning of each period, at midnight (UTC): the 1st of the month on Free; on your subscription date on Premium (subscribed on the 25th, your volume returns on the 25th of each month, whatever your plan). If that date does not exist in the month (the 31st in February), it is the last day of the month.

What is left is not carried over: the next month starts again at the ceiling of your Plan.

Moving from Free to Premium opens the Premium volume, without taking back the free Actions. Changing plan (monthly, 3 months, 6 months) does not reset the counter; the volume of the new plan applies at the latest the following month.

When the month is used up, the app tells you when the volume returns. On some screens, that date still displays in numerals (2026-10-25).

• Settings > Subscription: what you have used over the month.
• In the chat: a line under the answer when you approach the limit, and the exact balance when it is reached.
• There is no request-by-request detail: we can only verify totals.

The request is refused before being sent: nothing is counted, nothing is billed, and the app explains when your Actions return.

Nothing else stops. The four Spaces, entering, calculations, widgets, the watch, notifications, exports and already-downloaded sounds keep working. You can always read, enter and export your logs. Emergency numbers always display.

What you can do: wait for the next period, or move to Premium (subscription policy). A reply in progress is never cut for lack of Actions.

The scale and the volumes may change. A drop in volume or a rise in a cost does not touch a period already paid: you are told at least two months ahead, and you can cancel free of charge (terms of use).

Usage that looks wrong to you? Write to [email protected] with the date and the device. We check the totals and the technical traces of the service, which do not contain your exchanges. If the error is confirmed, your Actions are returned at once; if it is significant or repeated, you can ask for a refund of the period (refund policy).

Nothing runs without you. The only automatic operations come from your conversation: its title, and what the assistant remembers from it. They are reserved for Premium and counted from 0.1 Action.