# Spending a trial's credits on one real domain

> A trial runs on a few thousand credits, a tighter rate limit and no auto top-up. How to spend them so every screen shows your own domain.

Source: https://netweft.com/blog/spending-a-trial-well
Updated: 2026-10-15

**A trial gets 3,000 to 8,000 credits by plan, 10 paid requests a minute and no auto top-up. Spend them on one domain you know: an overview, its referring domains, metrics for your terms, one audit, and a tracker on twenty keywords and one device, run by hand.**

A trial is a real plan with a smaller balance. Pro's trial is
3 days and runs on 3,000 credits,
Studio's is 7 days on
5,000, and Agency's is
7 days on 8,000. Every trial is held to 10 paid
requests a minute instead of 60 and cannot use auto top-up. The
reasons are in [why netweft has no free tier](/blog/why-no-free-tier). This
guide spends the smallest of them, Pro's
3,000.

## Pick one domain you already know

The trial exists to answer one question: do the numbers match what you know?
That only works on a domain you have opinions about. Your own site is best; a
competitor you watch closely is next. A domain you have never looked at gives
you numbers you cannot judge.

## A budget that fills every screen

Each lookup below is held at its ceiling before it runs, and list lookups
settle for less when the vendor returns fewer rows, so the real total comes in
under this.

| What | Credits, at most |
| --- | --- |
| Domain overview | 362 |
| Referring domains | 312 |
| Keyword ideas from one seed | 360 |
| Metrics for 100 keywords | 240 |
| One audit of 500 pages | 500 |
| Rank check, 20 keywords, one device, default depth | 800 |
| **Total** | **2,574** |

On Pro's 3,000 that leaves at least
426 credits for whatever the first pass makes you curious
about: another seed, or a second rank check a day later to see the record
grow.

## The two settings that eat a trial

**Devices.** A new rank tracker checks desktop and mobile unless told
otherwise, and each device is a separate 40-credit check at
the default depth. One check of 100 keywords on both devices is
8,000 credits, more than all of Pro's trial.
Track twenty keywords on one device.

**Schedule.** A tracker runs weekly by default. In a short trial the first
scheduled run is the one that matters; set it to manual and press the button
when the keyword list is final, so the credits buy the list you meant.

The audit has a third: page speed. It is off unless you turn it on for an
audit, and at 50 credits a page it is worth leaving off
during a trial. The [crawl itself](/blog/what-a-crawl-costs) costs
1 credit a page.

## What to check while it runs

- Does the domain overview look like the site you know?
- Does the audit's first critical issue match something you suspected?
- Does the rank check agree with what Search Console says about the same
  terms? (Connecting Google costs no credits; see
  [GA4 beside Search Console](/blog/ga4-beside-search-console).)

If the answers are yes, the plan's allowance is the same product with a larger
balance. If they are no, you found out for a trial's credits.

## If the trial runs out

A workspace out of credits is refused before anything is bought, with the
shortfall named. Nothing is charged, nothing is half done, and everything
already stored stays readable. An owner or admin can also end the trial early
from **Billing** to start the paid plan and its full monthly credits.