Miro AI credits are a monthly metered allowance for Miro's AI features: 10 credits per team per month on the free plan, 25 per member per month on Starter ($8/member), 50 per member per month on Business ($20/member), and up to 100 per member on Enterprise, with an unlimited add-on at $7 per member per month. Credits do not roll over. One credit generally covers one AI action: generating or editing an image, summarizing a board, producing a diagram from text, or a step in an AI workflow. All figures are from Miro's own pricing page, checked August 2026.
What a Miro AI credit actually buys
Miro AI's feature set spans image creation and editing from prompts, diagram and mindmap generation from text descriptions, document generation (briefs, summaries, outlines), board summaries, meeting transcription, "Sidekicks" (specialized AI collaborators for tasks like research analysis), and "Flows" that chain AI operations together.
The important calibration: this is whiteboard AI. Image generation exists to fill a frame on a board, not to produce an asset you would ship. The credits are metered accordingly. Ten credits per team per month on the free plan is a taste; even the Business plan's 50 per member assumes AI is an occasional assist, not the workload.
The monthly math, by team size
Where the meter starts to bite is teams that generate images as part of real work. The unlimited add-on exists precisely because the allowances are small, and it prices per member.
| Team | Miro plan cost | AI included | With unlimited AI add-on |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 people, Starter | $40/mo | 125 credits/mo | $75/mo |
| 5 people, Business | $100/mo | 250 credits/mo | $135/mo |
| 10 people, Business | $200/mo | 500 credits/mo | $270/mo |
Two structural quirks to notice. First, credits pool per member but the add-on bills every member, whether or not they touch AI. Second, because credits expire monthly, a quiet month is spend with no output.
What the same money buys outside Miro
If the reason you care about AI credits is generating actual creative (images and video you would put in an ad, a deck, or a feed), the comparison stops being Miro versus Miro add-on and becomes whiteboard AI versus production models.
For scale: on 8frame, $19/month buys 1,000 credits that roll over, where an image from a frontier model (Nano Banana Pro at 21 credits, Seedream 5 at 6) costs single-digit to low-double-digit credits, and a 5-second Kling v3 video clip with audio runs 86. One Starter seat's worth of Miro-plus-unlimited-AI ($15/member) is most of an 8frame subscription that runs Veo 3.1, Kling v3, Seedance 2.5, FLUX, and the rest of the current roster. The catch runs the other way too: 8frame has no sticky notes, diagrams, or board summaries. It is not a whiteboard with AI; it is an AI canvas where collaboration is free and generation is the product.
Which one you need depends entirely on what the output is. Meeting artifacts and diagrams: Miro AI is fine and the free 10 credits may genuinely cover it. Production creative: metered whiteboard AI is the wrong shape no matter how many credits you add.
FAQ
Do Miro AI credits roll over? No. Allowances reset monthly. Unused credits are gone.
Can I buy more Miro AI credits without upgrading plans? Yes, the unlimited AI add-on is $7 per member per month. There is no smaller top-up pack on the standard plans, and Enterprise credit pools are sales-negotiated.
Is Miro AI good enough for marketing creative? For layout drafts and internal boards, yes. For shipped creative, the models behind whiteboard AI features are not the frontier image and video models, and the metering assumes low volume. Teams shipping creative typically run generation in a dedicated tool and keep the whiteboard for planning. See Miro alternatives for creative teams.
If the credits you actually want are generation credits, start where the canvas is free and the models are the product: 8frame from $19/month, with 1,000 credits that roll over.