What to Make With Your First 30 Free AI Credits
Four finished things you can actually make with a free WorkCrafter account, costed exactly — plus the one mistake that wastes half the grant in the first ten minutes.
By the WorkCrafter team · how we write these guides
A new account comes with 30 credits and no card. The problem is not the amount — it is that a blank prompt box and six tools give you no idea where to start, so most people generate one thing, look at it, and never come back.
This is the opposite of that: four small projects you can finish in one sitting, each costed exactly, and the one habit that decides whether 30 credits feels generous or gone.
First, what a credit buys
The costs are fixed and published, which makes planning a session arithmetic rather than guesswork:
- Text or code — 2 credits.
- Image — 10 credits.
- Voice-over — 10 credits.
- Music track — 15 credits.
- Video clip — 50 credits.
- Editing, trimming, adding music, exporting — free, always, no limit.
So 30 credits is three images, or two voice-overs, or fifteen text runs — and **not** a video, which costs 50 on its own. Saying that plainly up front saves the disappointment of discovering it at the wrong moment.
“Thirty credits is enough to finish something small. It is not enough to explore. Pick the thing you actually want and make it.”— WorkCrafter
Project 1 — A social post that looks made, not generated (12 credits)
- Write the caption with the text tool — 2 credits. Ask for a specific length and tone, not "a caption".
- Generate the image at the ratio you will actually post — 10 credits. 1:1 for a feed, 9:16 for a story.
- Download and post.
That leaves 18 credits. The reason this one works as a first project is that it finishes: you end the session with something published rather than a folder of experiments.
Project 2 — A narrated clip for a product or idea (25 credits)
- Draft a 60-second script — 2 credits. Around 140 words is a minute of speech; most people write three times that.
- Generate the voice-over — 10 credits.
- Generate one image to sit behind it — 10 credits.
- Assemble in the browser editor — free. Add the voice as the audio track, hold the image, export an MP4.
Three credits left, a finished video, and nothing uploaded to anyone's server — the editor renders on your own machine.
Project 3 — A set of three matching illustrations (30 credits)
The whole grant, spent on the one thing that is genuinely hard: consistency. Write a style block and change only the subject line between runs.
[SUBJECT], flat vector illustration, bold simple shapes,
muted teal and sand palette, subtle grain, no outlines, 3:2Three images that look like a family are worth more than ten that don't, and this teaches the habit that makes every later set cheaper: hold everything constant except the one thing you are changing.
Project 4 — A music bed and a written piece (17 credits)
- Generate a 30-second instrumental with the music tool — 15 credits. Describe mood, instruments and use, not a genre.
- Draft the piece it belongs to — 2 credits.
Thirteen credits spare. Music is the most under-used tool on any AI platform and the one that most changes how finished a video feels.
The habit that decides whether 30 feels generous
The single biggest waste is regenerating from a vague prompt. Three attempts at "a nice logo" costs 30 credits and teaches you nothing, because you changed everything each time and cannot tell which word helped.
Change one variable per run. Add a lighting phrase and regenerate; keep it or drop it; then change the style. You will spend the same credits and end up knowing why the good one was good — which is the part that makes the next session cheaper.
Where to spend nothing at all
- **The video editor** — trimming, reordering, music, export. Free forever, on any account.
- **The prompt library** — 98 prompts that already work; start from one instead of a blank box.
- **Regenerating a failed run** — failures are refunded automatically, so an error costs time, not credits.
- **Browsing what others made** — every public creation is shown with the prompt that produced it.
Frequently asked questions
Do the free credits expire?
No. They sit on the account until you spend them, and nothing auto-charges when they run out — the tools simply say the balance is empty.
Can I make a video with 30 credits?
Not a generated clip — that costs 50 on its own. You can make a video, though: a voice-over plus an image, assembled in the editor, which is Project 2 above and costs 25.
Can I use what I make commercially?
Yes. The terms grant you the output on free credits exactly as on paid ones, with no watermark and no resolution cap.
What happens when they run out?
Nothing, until you choose to top up. There is no subscription and no card on file, so an account that runs out simply stops generating until you buy credits.
Pick one and finish it
The mistake is treating 30 credits as a sample to poke at. Choose a project above, finish it in one sitting, and you will know within twenty minutes whether this is a tool you want — which is the only question a free tier can actually answer.
