> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# How do Cloudinary credits work?

Cloudinary's self-service pricing structure is based on **credits**. You can flexibly utilize the credits in your free or paid plan for transformations, storage and/or bandwidth based on your use case.

> **NOTE**: Some [Enterprise](https://cloudinary.com/pricing) or other Custom plans may be based on 'units', rather than 'credits'.  If your plan works with units, contact your Customer Success Manager for details.

**One credit can be used for:**

* 1000 transformations 
  * Most image transformations, including complex chained transformations count as a single transformation. 
  * Most video transformations are counted per second. (The number of [transformations per second](transformation_counts#progressive_videos) depends on the delivered video resolution).
  * Some advanced transformations or formats that require sophisticated processing have special [transformation counting](transformation_counts) rules.
* 1 GB of managed storage
  * Storage includes your main asset storage, a cached copy of each derived asset (from delivered transformations), and any revisions backed up to the [Cloudinary backup storage](backups_and_version_management).
* 1 GB of delivered bandwidth 
  * For images, the bandwidth is based on the _delivered_ image file size.
  * For videos, 1 GB generally comes to ~500 seconds of delivered SD video or ~250 seconds of HD video)
  
    Or combined portions of each.

**For example, suppose that in one 30-day period, you need:**

* 2 GB of image and video storage (2 credits)
* 4 GB of delivery bandwidth (4 credits)
* 4000 transformations (4 credits)

You'll use 10 credits during that period.  In this case, the [Free plan](https://cloudinary.com/pricing) would be more than enough for you to use and to continue to add more Cloudinary functionality.

You can see your current credit usage and breakdowns in the [Dashboard](https://console.cloudinary.com/app/home/dashboard/) of the Console.

If you find you're approaching the upper limit of your current plan, you can upgrade to another self-service plan using the **Change plan** option in the [Accounts](https://console.cloudinary.com/app/settings/account) page of the Console Settings. 

To upgrade to an [Enterprise](https://cloudinary.com/pricing) plan (or if you have any other questions about upgrading), [contact our Enterprise support and sales team](https://cloudinary.com/contact?plan=enterprise). 
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