Booq has no monthly subscription. You top up a wallet, and each job is paid from it. Run one project this month and you pay for one project; run nothing and you pay nothing.
What you pay for a job is what it actually cost to make, plus Booq's service fee. This guide follows a job from the moment you confirm it until it is settled, and shows where you can check every step in your wallet.
The wallet: top up once, pay per job
You top up the wallet through the bank payment page. VAT is added only at that moment and paid there; the amount that reaches your wallet is the net amount, and project charges carry no extra tax, because it was already paid at top-up.
- New accounts receive a signup credit, so you can try the services before paying anything.
- A top-up discount code is added as bonus credit: you pay the same and receive more credit.
- The only monthly charge is a larger storage plan, and only if you choose one.
Estimate first: what you see before you confirm is reserved
Before you confirm a job, the project page shows two figures: an estimate of what the job will cost, and the most it can cost. Both update as you change options, such as the number of target languages or the model you pick.
When you confirm, the estimate is reserved from your wallet. It is not a final charge yet: it is set aside for this job so the work can run without interruption. In your wallet history the row reads “Reserved for project”.
"The estimate is our best calculation of what your job will really cost. The maximum is a promise: the final charge never goes above it."
Settled to the real cost
While the job runs, every paid step records what it actually cost: the speech recognition, the translation, the voices, or the images and video clips your job needed. When the work finishes, Booq adds up those costs and adds its service fee. That total is the real price of your job.
The service fee is a fixed share on top of what the AI providers charge. There is no minimum charge per project: a short file costs what a short file costs.
When it costs less, and when it costs more
If the real cost is lower than the reserved estimate, the difference returns to your wallet automatically. The row in your history reads “Refund — actual cost lower than reserved”.
If the real cost is higher, only a limited extra is collected: never above the maximum you saw before confirming, and never more than your available balance. Anything beyond that is covered by Booq, and the finished work is delivered to you either way.
Discounts, campaigns and codes
Campaigns running for a service and discount codes you enter on a project are applied to the final charge, after the real cost is known. The discount therefore always applies to what you actually pay, not to the estimate.
Failed work is refunded
- A project that fails with an error returns its reserved amount to your wallet automatically and in full; the row reads “Refund — job failed”.
- In the Video Studio each step is reserved and settled on its own, so a failed step is returned on its own and the project stays usable.
- A result that was produced but did not please you is not refunded, because the work was done. That is why many services stop for a free review before the costly stage.
Where each settlement shows
Every movement of money is its own row in your wallet history, so you can follow a job from start to finish:
- Reserved for project: the estimate set aside when you confirmed.
- Additional reservation: a later step of the same job reserved more.
- Refund — actual cost lower than reserved: the difference that came back to you.
- Additional charge — actual cost: the limited extra collected because the job cost more.
- Refund — job failed: the reservation of a failed job, returned to you.
Which services settle to the real cost
Every paid service now settles to its real cost, from translation and dubbing to images, music and the Video Studio. The table on the pricing page marks each of them “settled after the run”, and it is read from the same settings billing uses, so it changes the moment a service changes.
What is free
- Downloading media from a link, at any length.
- Review steps, where you check and correct text before the costly stage.
- Editing a project and saving your changes.
- Reusing files from your library in later projects.
- Rendering the finished film in the Video Studio.
What this pricing does not do
- It offers no subscriptions or prepaid bundles; each job is paid from the wallet.
- It does not publish a fixed price per minute or per character: the cost of each job is worked out for that job, and the estimate shows it before you confirm.
- The estimate is not a fixed quote. The final charge can be lower, or higher by a limited amount, but never above the maximum shown.
- It does not refund a result you did not like once the work has run.
To see how each service is billed today, open the pricing page. To follow your own jobs, check your wallet. New to Booq? Start with the getting-started guide.
Frequently asked questions
Does Booq have a monthly subscription?
No. You top up a wallet and each job is paid from it. If you run nothing, you pay nothing. Only the larger storage plans are monthly.
Is the price I see the price I pay?
What you see is an estimate, and it is reserved from your wallet. The final charge is settled to the real cost of the work: if it is lower the difference comes back, and if it is higher only a limited extra is collected, never above the maximum you were shown.
Can a settlement take more than my balance?
No. An extra amount is only collected up to your available balance and up to the maximum you saw before confirming. Booq covers anything beyond that, and you still receive your output.
Is there a minimum charge?
No. Each charge follows the real cost of that job plus Booq's service fee, so a small job costs little.
How is tax handled?
VAT is charged only when you top up your wallet. Project charges carry no separate tax.
What happens if a job fails?
The reserved amount returns to your wallet automatically and in full. In the Video Studio a failed step is returned on its own.
