What are Account Tiers

Your account tier is determined by how much you have topped up in total, and it controls the price you pay per task.

Tier	Unlocked at	Pricing
Bronze	Default	Standard list price
Silver	$100 cumulative	Discounted
Gold	$1,000 cumulative	Discounted further
Platinum	$10,000 cumulative	Best discounts

Check your current tier at any time:

curl "https://api.get3w.com/v1/balance" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

{
  "balance": 42.5,
  "currency": "USD",
  "account_level": "Silver"
}

How Upgrades Work

Three properties matter in practice:

• Cumulative, not current. The threshold is measured against everything you have ever topped up, not your present balance. Spending your credit down never costs you a tier.
• Paid top-ups only. Gift credit, promotional grants, and redeemed codes don't count toward the threshold — only top-ups made through a payment channel.
• Upgrade-only and immediate. Tiers never decrease on their own. A top-up that crosses a threshold triggers recalculation right away, so the new tier applies to your very next request.

Top-ups in CNY are converted to USD before being compared against the thresholds, so the tier you reach doesn't depend on which currency you paid in.

Discounts

Discounts are the concrete benefit of a higher tier. They are configured per model rather than as one flat rate across your account, so the saving depends on which models you actually use — a tier might reduce the price of video models substantially while leaving some image models at list price.

Discounts are expressed the Chinese retail way, as a fraction of ten: 8.0 means you pay 80% of list price, 5.0 means half price. The absence of a configured discount means standard price.

Inheritance

Higher tiers inherit from lower ones. If a model is discounted for Silver but has no Gold-specific entry, Gold users still get the Silver discount. This means a higher tier is never worse off than a lower one, and Get3W only has to configure the differences at each level.

Bronze is standard price by definition and never carries discounts.

Channel-Specific Discounts

Because pricing is keyed on the model and channel, a discount can target one service tier of a model — for example a cheaper economy channel for Gold users while official stays at list price. The most specific match wins, falling back to the model-level discount for channels that have no entry of their own.

Where Discounts Apply

The same discount resolution runs on every pricing path — the cost estimate shown before you run a task, the balance check at submit time, and the final settlement. What you see quoted is what you are charged.

Concurrency and Rate Limits

Get3W does not currently cap requests per minute or limit how many tasks you can run at once, on any tier. In practice your throughput is bounded by:

• Your balance. Every task is priced and checked against your balance before it is queued. A submission that your balance cannot cover is rejected with 402 and never runs, so a large batch can stop partway through.
• Upstream provider capacity. Tasks are queued and executed against third-party providers. Under heavy load, queue wait time grows — visible as timings.queue_wait in the result.

Because there is no concurrency cap, batching is a matter of what your balance and your own client can sustain. Submitting large batches asynchronously with ?webhook= scales better than holding open many sync connections.

TIP

If you're planning a high-volume run, top up ahead of it rather than relying on incremental payments. A mid-batch 402 leaves you reconciling which tasks made it through.

Trial Credit

New accounts are seeded with a small trial credit (about $0.10) so you can run a first task before topping up. It covers a cheap image or speech generation; video and digital-human models cost more than the grant. Trial credit does not count toward tier thresholds.

Next Steps

• Account Levels — Tier reference
• How Pricing Works — How tasks are priced
• Payment Methods — Add credit to upgrade
• How to Check Balance — Read your tier via API