# Can you buy extra pickaxe credits more than once?

**URL:** <https://community.pickaxe.co/t/can-you-buy-extra-pickaxe-credits-more-than-once/2543>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [November 12, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/can-you-buy-extra-pickaxe-credits-more-than-once/2543 "2024-11-12T22:34:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![jrosenthal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/jrosenthal/32/721_2.png) [@jrosenthal](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/jrosenthal)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/can-you-buy-extra-pickaxe-credits-more-than-once/2543/1 "2024-11-12T22:34:30Z")

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Just doing some due diligence here and making sure that we understand potential $$ implications of deploying a pickaxe to parts of our userbase. I know you can buy an extra 2500 pickaxe credits for $50. Can that be purchased multiple times? Any discount at any point? We’re building a knowledge base, and the folks in charge of it very much prefer the 1 credit per user message pricing than the complexity of openAI’s tokens.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![nathanielmhld](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/nathanielmhld/32/11_2.png) [@nathanielmhld](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/nathanielmhld)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 12:07am UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/can-you-buy-extra-pickaxe-credits-more-than-once/2543/2 "2024-11-14T00:07:56Z")

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Yes, they can be purchased multiple times, absolutely. But the bulk discounts are factored in already, with the different packages, so unfortunately no further discounts are available at this time.

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**Author:** ![admin\_mike](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/community.pickaxe.co/admin_mike/32/283_2.png) [@admin\_mike](https://community.pickaxe.co/u/admin_mike)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://community.pickaxe.co/t/can-you-buy-extra-pickaxe-credits-more-than-once/2543/3 "2024-11-14T23:16:09Z")

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Generally speaking, if you are expecting heavy usage I would recommend opting to use your own API key rather than credits. Generally it is [cheaper to use your own API key](https://youtu.be/7jda-io90_I) rather than buying credits from Pickaxe as a middle-man, though it certainly is easier to buy credits from us.