Free where it can be. Metered where it has to be.
Depth2Beam draws a hard line between what runs on your own machine and what runs in the cloud — and only the cloud side costs credits.
Shape, Photo, and Blend are unlimited
These three engines compute depth entirely in your browser from the image you loaded. There's no server round-trip and no per-generation cost to Depth2Beam, so there's none to you either — use them as many times as you want, on as many images as you want.
AI Depth and the Relief Generator call a real cloud model
AI Depth sends your image to a hosted depth-estimation model; the Relief Generator sends a text prompt to a hosted diffusion model. Both are real, metered API calls with a real per-generation processing cost — that's what the shared AI credit allowance pays for, not an arbitrary paywall on features that could otherwise be free.
| Action | Runs where | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Shape / Photo / Blend generation | Your browser | Free, unlimited |
| Panel shapes, masking, layered export | Your browser | Free, unlimited |
| AI Depth / AI Depth + Detail generation | Cloud depth model | 1 credit |
| Relief Generator generation | Cloud diffusion model | 4 credits |
A free monthly allowance of AI Depth generations is included after a quick email activation (used only for Depth2Beam/Image2Beam product updates — no spam), and purchased credits cover anything beyond that, including the Relief Generator. AI Depth and the Relief Generator draw from the same shared allowance — there's one balance to track, not two.