What is a try-on credit?

Why these apps meter by usage

Generating an image costs the app real compute every time a shopper asks for one, so try-on pricing is usage-based rather than seat-based. That is good for a small store — you are not paying enterprise rates for a catalog of forty products — and it means your bill tracks how much shoppers actually use the feature.

Ask what consumes a credit

Before you commit to a plan, ask the developer what draws down the balance: a first generation, a retry on the same product, the same shopper trying a second product. Different apps answer this differently, and the answer changes your effective monthly volume more than the headline number does.

Estimating how many you need

Work from product-page sessions rather than plan names. Take monthly sessions on the products you plan to enable, assume a small fraction will try the feature, and start one tier below what that suggests. It is easier to move up after a month of real data than to pay for headroom you never touch.

What happens when you hit the limit

With Looksy you keep going at a per-try-on rate rather than stopping: $0.14 on Starter, $0.12 on Growth, $0.10 on Scale. Plans are usage-based, have no contract, and cancel from Shopify. Check that any app you are considering behaves the same way, because a hard stop mid-month is a worse outcome than a small overage.

Sources: the public Shopify App Store listing for Looksy. Last checked 27 July 2026.

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