CUTL is pay-as-you-go. There is no subscription and no monthly fee. You buy coins and spend them on the work you actually do, mostly cost calculations. When your balance runs low you top it up, and unused coins stay on your account.
What coins are
Coins are the credit you spend inside CUTL. Buy a pack once, then draw it down as you price parts. Nothing renews on its own and nothing expires on a monthly cycle, so a quiet month costs you nothing.
What uses coins
Coins are spent when CUTL does real processing for you. The main cost is a calculation: analysing a drawing and producing a cost.
| Action | Coins |
|---|---|
| Quick calculation (single part) | 100 per calculation |
| Project part calculation | 100 per part: a 20-part project costs about 2,000 |
| Recalculation after edits | 100 per calculation |
| Part split out of a multi-part drawing or PDF | 20 per extracted part |
| PDF drawing in a calculation | needs at least 500 coins on the balance to start, then 20 per extracted part |
| Part Editor: Upload photo or Describe it | 200 per generated part |
| Part Editor: Pick a shape or Upload DXF | free |
| Part Editor: Save to the library or Add to project | 100 each time (the part is calculated like any drawing) |
| Part Editor: editing, Download DXF | free |
| Quoting a STEP assembly: each laser-cut part to make sent to calculation | 100 per part |
| DXF to STEP conversion | free |
| PDF to STEP conversion | free |
| Create PDF drawing from a 3D model in the STEP viewer | free |
| API calls | billed in coins, see below |
Everyday setup work does not cost coins. Creating your account, adding machines, materials and cutting modes, browsing your history and downloading quotes are all free. In an assembly quotation, starting the quotation, analysing the assembly again, supplier price links and all the exported lists and quotes are free too. You only spend when you run a calculation or generate a part.
Check your balance
Your current balance is shown in the app at app.cutl.online, in the billing area. From there you can also see your recent transactions, so you can tell exactly what each calculation or top-up cost.
The Billing page
Team owners and administrators find everything about money on one page: Billing in the side menu, or click the coin balance in the top bar. Other roles do not see it.
- Balance: your coins, split into paid coins and bonus coins. Bonus coins are spent first. Top up balance opens the coin packs.
- Spending: what the team spent in a period (7 or 30 days, this month, last month or your own dates), as a daily chart and a table per section and operation.
- Invoices: pay by bank transfer instead of by card. Request an invoice, enter the number of coins (at least 1,000; the price follows the coin packs), choose the organisation that pays and Download invoice (PDF). The invoice is valid for 10 days, and the coins arrive as paid coins once the payment is in.
- Prices: every operation CUTL charges for, with its price in coins and what it covers. 0 means free for now.
- Operations journal: every charge and top-up with filters for dates, section, operation and status, and Download CSV for exactly what the filters show.
Top up by buying a coin pack
When you want more coins, buy a pack. Packs are one-off purchases: you pay once, the coins land on your balance, and nothing recurs.
There are four pack sizes:
- 1,000 coins (about 10 calculations), a small starter pack for trying things out; it may not be offered in every region yet
- 10,000 coins (about 100 calculations)
- 50,000 coins (about 500 calculations)
- 100,000 coins (about 1,000 calculations)
Larger packs work out cheaper per coin. The starter pack is the dearest per coin, because it exists so you can try CUTL for very little, not as the sensible way to buy volume.
Current pack prices are listed on the pricing page.
Redeem a promocode
A promocode adds coins straight to your balance. Codes usually come from a partner or a campaign, and each code can be redeemed once per team (in CUTL, coins and billing are shared across your team, not per individual login).
If a code will not redeem, it has usually already been used on your account, has reached its overall limit, or has passed its expiry date. Check the code with whoever gave it to you.
Using the API
The CUTL API is billed the same way as the app: each call that runs a calculation draws coins from your balance, so a single top-up covers both the web app and your integrations. Your integration can read the current balance with GET /v2/integration/balance before it submits work. See the API guide for endpoints and authentication.
Next, head back to Getting started to price your first part, or see Quoting & cost calculation to turn an estimate into a commercial offer.