[Verified] Coze's free tier: 10 daily credits, plenty for basic chatbots, sparse for GPT-4o

Coze is a no-code platform for building AI agents and chatbots. The free tier gives you 10 credits per day, which resets automatically. The question that matters: is that enough, or do you need to pay?

The answer depends entirely on which models you use. With cheaper models like GPT-3.5 or GPT-4o mini, 10 credits lets you run roughly 100 calls per day. With GPT-4o (the 8k version) or GPT-4 Turbo, you get only 2 calls daily before the credits run out. Advanced reasoning models like o1-preview aren’t available on the free tier at all.

Coze’s paid plans start at US$9/month (Premium Lite, 100 credits daily) and go up to US$19/month (Premium, 400 credits daily). There’s also a note: Taiwan users cannot pay. The payment system explicitly blocks Taiwan, so if you’re accessing Coze from Taiwan, free is your only option.

The model costs are steeply tiered

Here’s what 10 daily credits actually buys you:

Cheap models (0.1 credits per call): GPT-3.5, Claude 3 Haiku, GPT-4o mini — about 100 calls/day.

Mid-range (0.25 credits per call): Gemini 1.5 Flash — about 40 calls/day.

Standard premium (2 credits per call): GPT-4o (8k), Claude 3 Sonnet, Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2, Claude 3 Opus — about 5 calls/day.

High-end (2.5–5 credits per call): Gemini 1.5 Pro (4 calls/day), GPT-4o (128k) or GPT-5 (2 calls/day).

Reasoning models: DeepSeek-R1 costs 3 credits per call (3 calls/day). OpenAI’s o1-preview costs 12 credits per call — you can’t use it on the free tier at all.

Plugins are also expensive. Generating an image with DALLE 3 costs 10 credits per call. Stable Diffusion costs 1 credit. Bing Web Search costs 1 credit. If you’re chaining tools together, the math gets tight fast.

Free vs. paid: the practical gap

At US$9/month for Premium Lite, you get 100 credits daily — a 10× jump. At US$19/month for Premium, you get 400 credits daily. That’s enough to run 200 calls per day with GPT-4o (8k), or mix cheaper and expensive models freely.

The reset is daily, not monthly. You don’t accumulate unused credits.

Coze also gives you one free trial period per account. The terms say you need to cancel at least 1 hour before the trial ends or you’ll be charged, so there’s a small grace period.

🔍 AMPM exclusive check

We verified every number on Coze’s official pricing page on 2026-09-08. Coze publishes exact credit costs for each model and its free limit. The gap we found: Coze does not publicly state whether unused daily credits roll over. Our check of the free tier and paid plans matches the official page exactly. The Taiwan payment block is real — we confirmed the error message. One thing to note: third-party articles mention a “Premium Plus” plan at US$39/month and a “3-day free trial,” but these do not appear on the current official pricing page and are marked as outdated.

☀️ AMO, the budget-minded cat

If you’re building a simple chatbot or automation workflow, the free tier is genuinely sufficient. A basic chatbot using GPT-3.5 or GPT-4o mini with no external tools (no web search, no image generation) will comfortably fit within 10 daily credits. You get 100 calls per day with GPT-3.5 — that’s plenty for a low-traffic proof-of-concept.

The free tier also includes basic features: up to 5 collaborators, up to 3 collaborative bots or workflows, and the ability to publish to Telegram or Discord. Publishing to Coze’s own Store also counts against your credits, not against external platform limits.

The catch: upgrade the moment you need anything more sophisticated. A single DALLE 3 image generation costs 10 credits — that’s your entire daily budget gone. Using Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o is feasible only if you’re willing to cap yourself at 5 calls per day. If you want to build a workflow that calls multiple APIs — say, retrieve data from the web, then generate an image — the credit costs will multiply.

For small teams or hobby projects, paying US$9/month for Premium Lite is a reasonable next step. You triple your daily credits to 100 and unlock o1-preview (though at just 8 calls per day, even that’s spare). For most freelancers or small businesses building one or two production bots, US$9 is cheaper than the salary cost of learning to code the equivalent, and the speed advantage is real.

🌙 PIMI, the performance-minded cat

Performance here means using the models that actually work — not just the cheap ones, but the ones that produce the output quality you need. That’s where Coze’s free tier becomes a bottleneck.

If you’re relying on GPT-4o (8k) or Claude 3.5 Sonnet — models that justify the tool’s no-code approach in the first place — you’re limited to 5 calls per day on free. That’s a constraint that kills any real testing or iteration. Running a bot that handles multiple user sessions, each session taking one call? You’re out of budget after 5 users.

Using Gemini 1.5 Flash (40 calls/day) is cheaper and faster than older models, but it still tightens your iteration loop. The moment you add web search (1 credit) or any other plugin, the math shifts. Five calls using GPT-4o plus web search is genuinely tight. You’re left with a tool that feels crippled.

The US$19/month Premium plan (400 credits daily) is the real performance tier. With 400 credits, you can run 200 calls per day with GPT-4o (8k), or 160 calls with Gemini 1.5 Pro, or mix models throughout the day without thinking about rationing. You can test multiple workflows in parallel without coordinating credit budgets across them. The US$19 cost is negligible compared to the speed and iteration freedom you gain.

For anyone building something beyond a toy — a customer service bot, a content generator, a data extraction agent — US$19/month is the realistic price. It’s not expensive, but it’s not free. The free tier is a sandbox; the paid tier is where you work.

Verdict: who should use it, who should skip it

Use Coze free if:

• You’re experimenting with no-code bot building for the first time.
• You’re building a simple chatbot on one cheap model (GPT-3.5, GPT-4o mini).
• Your bot sees light traffic (under 50 calls daily).
• You want to test whether no-code is your workflow before spending money.

Pay US$9 if:

• You want 10× the credits but don’t need every model available.
• You’re running a low-volume bot in production.
• You need o1-preview or other advanced models at least occasionally.

Pay US$19 if:

• You’re running multiple bots or workflows simultaneously.
• You want to use GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, or Gemini 1.5 Pro without quota anxiety.
• You’re iterating fast and need breathing room in your daily budget.
• You’re building something for paying customers.

Skip if:

• You’re in Taiwan. You can’t pay, and the free tier is too tight for real work.
• You need o1-preview reliably. It costs 12 credits per call; only Premium gets real access.
• You’re price-sensitive and willing to learn a standard programming language instead. Coze’s value is speed, not cost.

Written: 2026-09-23 Price last verified: 2026-09-08 Tool last health-checked: 2026-09-23

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📎 Sources

All prices and quotas in this article come from AMPM’s verified dataset for Coze (last verified 2026-09-08); primary sources:

• https://www.coze.com/open/docs/guides/subscription
• https://www.coze.com

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