Earning Free Credits

Eight ways to get credits without paying for them — two of which arrive on their own.

Two of them arrive without you doing anything

Before the list of things you can go and do, two grants land on their own:

100 credits when your account is created. One time, and normally it is already in your balance the first time you look.
10 credits a day for your first 30 days. It arrives on the day you open VyroAI — a day you do not sign in is simply a day it does not pay.

Free credits are given once per person, not once per account. If this browser already gave them to another account, neither grant is paid, and a notice says "Free credits already went to another account in this browser". If your network already has several new accounts, the 100 wait for one quick check instead: the notice "Your 100 free credits are one click away" offers Unlock in Discord (instant) or Open a support ticket.

Both show up as a small message in the corner when they land — Welcome! 100 credits added and Daily bonus: 10 credits added, the second with how many days of it you have left.

There is no tile and no button for either of these. If you are hunting the Pricing page for where to claim them, stop — they are not there.

The daily one resets at midnight UTC, not at your midnight

The day it counts is the UTC day, so depending on where you live the next one may unlock in the middle of your evening rather than at your midnight. It is one payment per day either way — signing in twice does not pay twice.

If a brand-new account shows no welcome credits at all, reload the page: an unfinished claim is retried on the next load rather than written off.

Welcome credits — join the Discord

Every account can claim 200 welcome credits by joining the VyroAI Discord server — not just brand-new ones. Nothing pops up to offer it: since 2 September 2026 the claim window never opens on its own. You open it with Connect Discord on the card reading "200 extra free credits for connecting Discord". That card sits above the project list on your Projects page once your account has finished its first successful build (before that it is not there), and a smaller copy sits on the Pricing page without opening any panel. The out-of-credits window and Profile → Connectors open the claim window too.

In that window, step one opens the invite, step two links your Discord account, and the credits land straight away once we can see you inside the server. It is a one-time claim, and it is the biggest single one on this page. Once you have claimed, the card disappears.

Why a claim gets refused

Four rules sit behind that button:

You have to actually be in the server. VyroAI asks Discord whether the account you linked is a member — a username typed in by hand proves nothing. If you left the server, or linked a different Discord account from the one that joined, the claim is refused. Join, then claim.
The bonus is limited per browser, not per account. A small number of accounts (three today) that use the same browser build on the same network can each claim it. The next one is told "This device has already claimed its welcome credits.", with the other ways to earn listed under it. Accounts you deliberately join together with Add another account are counted differently: linked accounts are treated as one person, so only one of them can claim — see Using Two Accounts in One Browser.
One browser profile, one free gift. An account signed in on the same browser profile as an account that already took free credits gets none, and sees "Free credits already went to another account in this browser". Your account still works: buy any pack and you can build right away, and the block lifts for good. If we got it wrong, press We got it wrong? Tell us in that notice — a person reads it with your account attached.
One Discord account, one welcome bonus. A Discord account that already brought the bonus to another VyroAI account gets nothing the second time. The window simply closes, with no message and no credits.

"Identity is already linked" — press Claim again

Claiming the welcome credits attaches your Discord account to your VyroAI account. If that Discord account is already attached — from an earlier attempt, or because you connected it in your profile — Discord answers "Identity is already linked" and refuses to attach it twice.

That is not a failed claim and nothing is lost. You land back on the home page with "Your Discord account is already connected — press Claim again to finish.", the popup opens itself, and pressing Claim once more finishes the job: the second run checks your membership of the server directly, with nothing left to link.

If connecting Discord fails for some other reason, the popup says so in the server's own words and offers to sign in with Discord instead. Read that one twice before you take it: it signs you in as your Discord account, which lands you on a different VyroAI account when the email on your Discord is not the email you signed up with.

The Earn free credits panel

The Pricing page carries a panel called Earn free credits, and it is folded away — look below the prices, in the quiet band under the two tabs, for a line about welcome credits with an Open the earn panel button in it. Press that and the tiles unfold; press it again to fold them back.

It holds up to three tiles, and none of them costs you anything. If you are not signed in, the button takes you to the sign-in page instead — the tiles are about your account, so there is nothing to show until it knows who you are.

Invite friends

Your referral link is in that panel, with Copy link and Share buttons. When someone joins through it, both of you get the referral credits — until you reach the invite limit, or while invite rewards are switched off. Then neither of you is paid, and the tile says so: "You've reached the invite limit, so new invites don't add credits". The panel keeps a running count of how many people you have invited.

This is a one-off credit reward, not a percentage of what they later spend — there is no affiliate commission programme yet. See Ranks.

Daily streak

Signing in on consecutive days builds a streak. There is no flame in the top bar any more — this panel is where you see it. Streaks pay out at milestones rather than every day: the panel shows your current run and how many days are left until the next reward, with the credits it will pay.

Watch ads

Press Watch ad and a short video opens over the page. When it finishes, the Claim button unlocks and the credits land in your balance immediately.

The timer only runs while that tab is in front — switch away and it pauses, so a reward always means a video that was really watched. There is a daily cap and a cooldown: the tile shows how many you have watched today out of the maximum, and counts down to the next one.

"Failed to claim reward"

That message on a streak milestone or an ad reward means the claim itself did not get through: the connection dropped, your session had ended, or our server hit an error. Reload the page and check your balance first. If the credits are not there, try the claim again.

It is not the same as the messages that give a reason, such as "Too soon — wait for the timer before the next ad." or "That's all the ads for today. Come back tomorrow!". Those mean the claim reached us and a rule said no.

Tell us what is wrong or missing

Written feedback about VyroAI can pay up to 500 credits — but nothing is paid when you press send. Someone here reads the report first and decides what it was worth, anywhere from nothing to 500. There is no date on that and no guarantee, so treat it as a thank-you that may arrive, not as a price list.

What gets rewarded is a report we can act on: what you did, what happened, and what you expected instead. It has to be a real sentence — at least 20 characters — and a vague one earns nothing.

The feedback box is reachable from the help menu, and the out-of-credits dialog offers it too.

👍 and 👎 on AI answers

Rating an AI message pays a little as well: 5 credits for a quick 👍 or 👎, and 25 credits for a 👎 where you write what went wrong (again at least 20 characters). A particularly useful report can be raised further by hand, up to 250 credits.

There is a daily limit, and each message pays only once — voting, un-voting and voting again does not pay twice.

Both feedback rewards need one real generation behind them

Since 17 August 2026: an account that has never actually run anything in VyroAI — no build, no generation — is not paid for feedback or for 👍/👎 at all, and a rewarded vote needs a real generation behind it. It is a farming guard, and it changes nothing for anyone using the product: make one thing first, then your feedback pays.

The three tiles in the panel can be switched on or off by VyroAI. If the Daily streak or Watch ads tile is missing, that way of earning is simply turned off at the moment. The Invite friends tile stays and says "Invite rewards are off right now" instead. The panel disappears entirely when none of them are on. Welcome credits and the feedback rewards are separate and do not live in this panel.

Also in Getting Started

Next in Getting Started: Inviting Friends
First hour: What is VyroAI? — What VyroAI.vip is: an AI IDE that builds Minecraft plugins and mods, Discord bots, web apps, browser games and images from a plain-English description.
First hour: VyroAI or a General Chatbot? — A chatbot can write plugin code too. What VyroAI adds is everything after the code: the build, the fixing, the version and the hosting.
First hour: Is My Idea Buildable? — What VyroAI builds well, what is too big for one project, and how to tell before you spend credits.
First hour: Typing Your Idea First — The box on the generator pages: what it saves, how long it keeps it, and where you land afterwards.

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