---
title: Reset Passes
description: Instantly restore your DevPass weekly premium allowance
icon: Stamp
---

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DevPass plans include a [weekly fair-use allowance](/learn/model-categories) for premium frontier models. A **Reset Pass** restores that full allowance the moment you redeem it — no waiting for the rolling 7-day window — and a fresh window starts with your next premium request. The pass card lives on the DevPass dashboard directly under the premium allowance meter, styled as a stamped visa extension: each pass you hold appears as a stamp.

<ThemedImage
	alt="DevPass usage page with the premium allowance meter and the Reset Pass visa-extension card holding an included and a purchased pass"
	basePath="/learn/reset-passes"
/>

<Callout type="warn">
	A Reset Pass removes the weekly limit — it does **not** add credits. Premium
	usage after a reset draws from your plan's monthly credit allowance exactly as
	before; the pass just lets you keep using premium models now instead of
	waiting for the window. Once the monthly allowance itself is exhausted,
	[pay-as-you-go overflow](/learn/payg-overflow) is what keeps requests flowing,
	not a pass.
</Callout>

<Callout type="info">
	Reset Passes exist only on **DevPass** (Lite, Pro, Max). Pay-as-you-go API
	usage has no weekly premium cap, so there is nothing to reset.
</Callout>

## Included and purchased passes

| Plan     | Included per billing cycle | Extra passes |
| -------- | -------------------------- | ------------ |
| **Lite** | —                          | $9 each      |
| **Pro**  | 1                          | $29 each     |
| **Max**  | 2                          | $79 each     |

Two kinds of stamps appear on the card:

- **Included passes** come with Pro and Max. They refresh every billing cycle, don't roll over, and are always consumed before purchased passes.
- **Purchased passes** are one-time purchases at the tier's price, bound to the tier they were bought for — a pass purchased on Pro is redeemable while you're on Pro. They never expire, so an unused pass applies again whenever you're back on that tier, even after a cancelled plan.

## Redeeming a pass

Click **Use a pass** on the card. Your premium usage for the week is zeroed immediately and the 7-day window restarts with your next premium request. Redemption is deliberately explicit — a pass is never consumed automatically, and two guards stop a pass from being wasted: a redeem is rejected while your allowance is untouched, and also once you've used more than 90% of your monthly credit allowance (a reset then would restore a cap you have almost nothing left to spend against — the pass keeps until your credits renew).

Standard models are unaffected either way: they never count against the weekly cap.

## Renewal and the weekly window

Nothing about the weekly allowance carries over between billing cycles — every monthly renewal starts you completely fresh, all at once:

- **The weekly premium allowance resets in full.** Renewal zeroes your premium usage and starts a new 7-day window at the renewal moment, alongside the monthly credit reset. You never begin a cycle mid-window or with a partially used allowance.
- **Included passes replenish.** Pro's 1 and Max's 2 included passes are restored every cycle; unused ones don't roll over. Purchased passes are unaffected — they persist until redeemed.

An immediate tier upgrade restarts your billing cycle and performs the same full reset.

Between renewals the window is **rolling, not on a fixed schedule**. When a 7-day window ends, the next one starts with your next premium request — and a redeemed pass clears the window entirely, so your next premium request starts a fresh 7 days. There is no weekly reset schedule that redeeming late (or early) can shift into the next cycle.

In practice, a 30-day cycle of steady premium usage fits about five weekly windows (starting around days 0, 7, 14, 21, and 28) before any passes. On Max, whose weekly cap is 18% of the monthly allowance, those five windows plus a single included pass already unlock more than the entire monthly credit pool — so even spending exclusively on premium models needs no front-loaded pass redemptions or timing strategy. Redeem when you actually hit the cap.

If you hit the cap from a coding agent, the gateway's `402` response points here:

```json
{
	"error": {
		"message": "You've used your weekly allowance for premium-tier models on the pro plan. Redeem a Reset Pass from your dashboard for an instant reset, upgrade for a higher allowance, or use any standard model now. Resets in 6 days.",
		"type": "invalid_request_error",
		"code": "billing_error"
	}
}
```

## Buying and billing

**Buy a pass** shows a confirmation dialog, then charges the payment method saved on your DevPass — no checkout redirect, no subscription change, no proration. Each purchase emails a PDF invoice and appears in the DevPass billing history alongside plan charges. Purchases are paused once you've used more than 95% of your monthly credit allowance — a pass would give you almost nothing to use at that point — and open up again when your credits renew.

An unused pass can be returned: for 7 days after purchase, a purchased pass that hasn't been redeemed can be self-refunded from the billing history. The refund goes back to your payment method, the pass is removed from your passport, and your DevPass plan itself is unaffected.

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	alt="DevPass billing history listing Reset Pass purchases with downloadable invoices"
	basePath="/learn/reset-passes-billing"
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<Callout type="info">
	Reaching for a Reset Pass every week? Upgrading a tier is usually the better
	deal — the next tier raises the weekly cap itself and brings a larger monthly
	allowance. Compare on the [DevPass pricing
	page](https://devpass.llmgateway.io/pricing).
</Callout>
