Costs

Costs is one page for what AI use cost. Open it from the avatar menu, directly under My Account. The figures are estimates from metered usage, in US dollars. Comfy Cloud credits are billed separately by Comfy and are listed in their own Comfy Cloud section below the statement; they are never part of the month's dollar total.

It is one list: everything you pay for. Your own use -- asking the assistant, rewriting prompts, the screenplay and plan tools, and voice generation in projects you have not shared -- and, if you own a project that is shared with other people, the voice generation in it by whoever made it. It reads like a bank statement:

• It shows one month at a time, the current month to start, with the month's total beside its name ("October 2026 $8.29"). With no other filter on, that total is what you pay for the month.
• The month's days read down from the 1st: one row per day, project, person and kind of use, with the date in UTC, the Project it was in (its name, or "-" for use that was not inside one), Who made it ("You", or the person's email), What it was (AI chat, Text to speech, Voice session, Servers, Database, File storage, Platform), the Amount at four decimals ("$0.0255") and a running Total in cents that ends on the month's figure.
• Four filters above the rows -- Month (every month you have used AI), Project (All projects, each of your projects, No project), Who (Everyone, You, each person) and What (All uses, each kind of use). The last three only offer what actually appears on your statement, and each narrows both the month's total and its rows.

Comfy Cloud

If Comfy Cloud is turned on for you, or any of your jobs have run there, a Comfy Cloud section sits below the statement. Comfy bills those jobs to your own Comfy account, in credits, so they are not in the statement above, do not change its total, and do not count toward any spending limit.

• The Month filter governs both sections, and the Project filter narrows the Comfy rows by the project each job's output went to. Who and What leave this section alone: the jobs are always yours, and what each one ran is a workflow name.
• The month's total reads beside the heading in credits first, with the approximate dollar figure in a lighter weight ("October 2026: 1,240 cr (~$5.90)"). Comfy publishes credits, not dollars, so the dollars are an estimate from Comfy's entry-level plan price per credit.
• The rows read like the statement: one per day, project and workflow, with the date in UTC, the Project ("-" when the job produced nothing in a project), What (the workflow that ran), Credits, ~$ and a running Total in credits. The credits are the same figure the Cost column shows for the job on the ComfyUI Queue page.
• For the current month, when Comfy reports your balance, a line adds "Used 1,240 of 4,200 (30%), resets Nov 5". If Comfy's balance cannot be fetched the line is simply absent.

The list comes from the jobs Ordinary Animator queued. The queue keeps finished jobs for about a week, but each job's credits are kept after it leaves the queue, so a month stays complete. Months before this was introduced only have the jobs that were still in the queue. Jobs run outside Ordinary Animator -- in Comfy's own interface, for example -- are not listed.

Server, database and storage costs

Running Ordinary Animator also costs money that is not an AI call: the servers, the database and file storage. Once a day those costs are worked out and shared among everyone in proportion to the data they keep, so they appear as rows on every day, in the same list:

What	How it is shared
Servers	In proportion to how much you keep in the database and in file storage, project by project
Platform (other shared services)	The same way as Servers
Database	In proportion to how much data you keep
File storage	In proportion to how much you store, project by project

In a shared project, the project's share is counted on the project and shown to its owner with Who = "You". Server and database costs are attributed a day or two after they are incurred, so the latest days show only AI use for now. The AI services themselves are not charged a second time. Your monthly protection cap counts AI use only.

Your monthly protection cap, and this month's figure, are on My Account.

Two caps, and who can raise which

• Your cap guards what you pay for yourself. You raise or lower it on My Account.
• The project's cap (Project AI cap) guards a shared project's costs, for everyone on the project -- the owner included. Only the project's owner can raise it, on the project's Team page. If you are a contributor and it stops you, the message says so. Until the owner sets one it is the same amount as the default personal cap, so sharing never opens an unlimited budget.

When the Project filter is a shared project you own, the month's total shows the project's AI use against its cap ("AI $X of $Y"); the cap counts AI use only, so it can be lower than the month's total.

Owner pays

In the project's Team page, the owner can switch on Owner pays this member's costs for a member. Everything that member then spends in that project -- the Assistant included -- is a project cost: it appears on the owner's Costs page with the member's email in Who (filter Who to see only theirs), counts against the project's cap, and does not appear on the member's own Costs page. Switch it off to stop; costs already recorded stay where they were.

Who sees what

Each cost is counted in exactly one place, so nothing is added up twice:

Kind of use	Counted in	Seen by
AI chat, prompt writing, screenplay and plan tools	The person who used it	That person, on their Costs page
Voice generation in a shared project	The project	The project's owner, on their Costs page, with the maker's email under Who
Anything in a project that is not shared	The owner	The owner

A contributor never sees a project's costs, and an owner never sees a contributor's chat use. See Sharing.