{"id":1016,"date":"2024-05-07T11:49:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/docs\/how-are-the-credits-counted-when-using-the-archive-optimizer\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:37:14","password":"","slug":"how-are-the-credits-counted-when-using-the-archive-optimizer","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/how-are-the-credits-counted-when-using-the-archive-optimizer\/","title":{"rendered":"How are the credits counted when using the Archive Optimizer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1 credit = 1 image<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A credit is used each time the <a href=\"https:\/\/shortpixel.com\/archives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive Optimizer<\/a> optimizes an image or PDF by&nbsp;<strong>at least 5%<\/strong>. If we&#8217;re not able to optimize an image by at least 5%, then no credit will be used! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note that&nbsp;if you choose to create WebP or AVIF files upon optimization, an extra credit will also be spent for every image that gets a WebP\/AVIF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Example<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Say you upload a <strong>.zip file with 50 images<\/strong>, and you choose to create <strong>WebP <\/strong>versions and <strong>AVIF<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Original file optimization:&nbsp;50 credits<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>WebP creation: 50 credits<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AVIF creation: 50 credits<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Total credits used: 150 credits<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"callout-green\">If you don&#8217;t want to worry about how many credits you are going to spend, get the <a href=\"https:\/\/shortpixel.com\/pricing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unlimited plan<\/a>! For only $9.99\/month, you can optimize as many images as you want!<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s the maximum file size for the Archive Optimizer?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Archive Optimizer accepts files <strong>up to 20 GB<\/strong> in size!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 credit = 1 image A credit is used each time the Archive Optimizer optimizes an image or PDF by&nbsp;at least 5%. If we&#8217;re not able to optimize an image by at least 5%, then no credit will be used! \ud83d\ude42 Please note that&nbsp;if you choose to create WebP or AVIF files upon optimization, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[55],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1016","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-archive-optimizer"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":151,"total_views":"1398","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin_mdli53m5","author_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/author\/admin_mdli53m5\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Archive Optimizer","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/archive-optimizer\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1016\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}