Credit guide

The short version

• You buy from Cladior. Cladior pays the developers whose apps you read. Your statement shows Cladior, once, not a separate charge for every site you visit.
• You only pay for what you use. Charges are per request, sized to the data you actually received.
• Automatic renewal is off unless you turn it on. Switch it on and Cladior buys more credit from your saved card before you run out, so nothing stops mid-page. Switch it off again in the same place, any time.
• Every charge is itemised in your dashboard, showing which app, when, and how much.

Credit is not a subscription. Leaving an app alone costs nothing, and what you do not spend stays on your account for whenever you next read something.

What you are buying

Credit is prepayment for Cladior's own metered access service. It is spent here and nowhere else: it is not a stored-value account, it cannot be sent to another person, and it is not redeemable for cash.

That distinction matters for a practical reason as well as a legal one. Cladior is the party you buy from and the party you would ask for a refund. You never have a billing relationship with the individual apps you read, which is the entire point of not having to sign up to each of them.

Renewing

Automatic renewal is off unless you turn it on. Nothing is charged to your card without you asking for it first.

Turn it on in Settings → Credit renewal and Cladior buys the next block of credit from your saved card when yours runs low, before you run out, so a page never stops halfway through. You pick how much is bought, anywhere from $1 to $100, and how low the balance gets first. Turning it back off is the same switch, in the same place, and takes effect immediately.

How charges work

Each time you use a connected app, a small amount comes off your credit at the rate you agreed to when you connected. Charges are per kilobyte of data the app returns. If the rate is $0.000010/KB and a request returns 50 KB, that is $0.000500. Every charge appears in your Transactions tab instantly.

When your credit runs out

If renewal is off, or the saved card is declined, the Cladior proxy stops forwarding requests for all connected apps. The apps themselves still load; only the metered calls are blocked. No session is revoked and no connection is broken, and buying more credit restores access immediately.

You can also set a low-credit browser notification in Settings, which is worth having if you have turned renewal off.

Reading your transactions

Your Transactions tab separates the two things that are easy to confuse. Each credit purchase is one row, showing what Cladior actually charged your card. Open it and you get the breakdown: which apps that credit went on, how much data each one served, and what each cost.

Purchases show a positive amount (green); usage shows what it consumed. Select a single app to see every individual request against it.

Privacy

Cladior charges by data size only. The content of what you access through connected apps is not read or stored by Cladior.

Spending calculator

Adjust the rate and your estimated monthly data use to see what you would spend.