{"slug": "ask-hn-are-ai-credits-too-locked-to-individual-applications", "title": "Ask HN: Are AI credits too locked to individual applications?", "summary": "A Hacker News user reports that AI credits are locked to individual applications, citing an instance where credits for an agentic IDE could not be used on a Hostinger deployment agent, forcing a wait for reset, an upgrade, or a token purchase. The user asks whether this limitation is a widespread problem or a personal annoyance.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||\n1 point by |\nThe problem: I already had AI credits, but those credits were locked to one application. context : I was using both an agentic IDE and a Hostinger deployment agent. One day, I ran out of credits on the deployment agent. To keep using it, I either had to wait for credits to reset or upgrade to a higher subscription or buy tokens. At the same time, I already had a subscription for the IDE, but I could not use those credits on Hostinger. simply despite having credits, we cannot use them. Is this actually a problem for other people, or is it just something that bothered me personally? | |||||||||||\n|", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-are-ai-credits-too-locked-to-individual-applications", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356667", "published_at": "2026-08-19 04:08:42+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-19 04:40:49.707902+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Hostinger", "Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-are-ai-credits-too-locked-to-individual-applications", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-are-ai-credits-too-locked-to-individual-applications.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-are-ai-credits-too-locked-to-individual-applications.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-are-ai-credits-too-locked-to-individual-applications.jsonld"}}