Pay Less, Do More: Your Credits Now Go Roughly Twice as Far

Over the past months, hundreds of thousands of build actions have run through Stunning — first websites, booking systems, online stores, staff dashboards, edits big and small. All of that real usage taught us something simple and important: not every request deserves the same amount of horsepower.

Changing a headline is not the same as architecting a checkout. Yet like most AI builders, we used to spend nearly the same effort on both — and effort is what your credits pay for.

The engine now thinks before it works

So we rebuilt how the engine allocates its intelligence. Before every single request, it now reads what you actually asked for and matches the effort to the task. A quick text change gets a quick, light touch. A full redesign gets the design specialist. And when something genuinely hard shows up — a tricky bug, a complex system spanning your whole app — the engine automatically brings in its deepest reasoning, does the hard work, and then steps back down. You never have to think about any of this. It just happens, on every request.

Up to 60% fewer credits

In our end-to-end tests — building complete apps with ordering, dashboards and databases, then iterating on them like a real user — the same projects finished with up to 60% fewer credits than before, at the same quality bar.

You pay for effort. You get results.

This is the principle behind the whole upgrade: your credits should buy outcomes, not overhead. Simple things are now cheap because they are simple. Hard things still get the full power they deserve — and only they do. That's why the balance you have today will build more websites, ship more features, and survive more experiments than it did last month.

You'll also see a small new detail after every build: how many AI engines worked on it. That's the upgrade working for you — several specialists collaborating on your project, each doing what it does best, at the lowest cost that gets the result.

Lower costs on every mode — Auto goes furthest

The upgrade isn't locked to one mode: whichever model you pick from the selector, your work now costs fewer credits. Still, Auto — the recommended default for every workspace — is where your credits go furthest: it's the mode that matches effort to task automatically, on every request. Just open Stunning, describe what you want, and build. If you've been holding back on an idea because of credits — this is a good week to try it.

— The Stunning team