Plans & usage
Volume and usage
How Inverity measures the media you process.
Your plan includes a monthly amount of media volume, measured in GB from the source size of the files you process. Usage resets each billing period.
Where to see your usage
Open Settings → Plan (or the Billing screen) in the dashboard. You'll see a meter: X GB of Y GB used this month, with a progress bar that turns amber as you approach your limit and red when you're nearly out.
What counts
Counts: each image or video Inverity processes, measured by its original file size — before optimization, not after. You're metered on what you gave Inverity to work on.
Doesn't count:
- Assets that are skipped because they couldn't be improved
- Duplicates Inverity has already seen
- Files in formats Inverity doesn't process — see Supported formats
You're not charged volume for work that didn't produce a result.
Uploads and connected-source (CMS/DAM) optimization draw from the same monthly volume budget. There's no separate allowance for either.
What doesn't affect your volume
- How many files. Ten 1 MB images and one 10 MB video cost the same volume.
- How much you saved. Metering is on input size, so a 70% saving and a 10% saving on the same source file cost identically.
- How many connected sources you have. Sources share one budget.
- How many team members you have. Volume is a workspace-level meter.
When you reach your limit
When you hit your monthly volume, new optimization pauses until the period resets or you upgrade. Your connected sources stay linked and your settings are untouched — processing simply resumes once you have volume available.
Nothing is lost. Assets that were queued when you hit the limit are picked up when processing resumes.
Estimating what you need
The reliable method is to measure rather than guess:
- Run one representative folder.
- Note the volume it consumed.
- Multiply by how much larger the full library is.
Do this separately for images and video. Video is where estimates usually go wrong — a single 4K master can be several gigabytes on its own, so a video library reaches a plan limit far faster than an image library with the same file count.
Backfills and re-runs are metered too
A one-time backfill of an existing library, and any re-run under new settings, both consume volume at full source size — exactly like first-time processing. Plan for them explicitly rather than discovering them in the meter.
Managing a tight month
- Narrow the scope. Stop watching low-value folders. See Choose what to optimize.
- Stage backfills. Process a folder at a time across billing periods rather than all at once.
- Or just upgrade. If you're brushing the ceiling most months, moving up a plan is usually cheaper than the time spent managing the cap. See Compare plans.