A harbour runs on published dues, posted where every captain can read them before entering. This studio keeps the same manners: every job prints its exact credit cost before it runs, and nothing — nothing — is charged in the dark.
The posted dues are short. A standard still costs 6 credits; a premium still, 41. An edit costs 21 credits; an image face swap, 26; an image upscale, 61. Video work is quoted per job by duration and resolution — video face swaps from 31 credits, video upscales from 101 — with the exact figure printed before confirmation, every time. A job that fails refunds its credits on its own.
The daily courtesy belongs on the same board: registration is free, and checking in each day collects 6 credits — exactly one standard picture a day, so the studio can be judged by its own light before a single pack is bought. Packs themselves are one-time purchases; there is no subscription quietly renewing in the fog.
Read the board, then sail. It is the whole of the financial method here, and it has never wrecked a budget yet.