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jaketheartist8
Participant
April 20, 2026

ai generations failed but charged credits

  • April 20, 2026
  • 4 replies
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tried to use veo 3 to generate text to video with first frame reference but generation failed and still charged me 200 credits

    4 replies

    Participating Frequently
    July 2, 2026

    the project I am working on is confidential. do you have an email I can send the screenshots to?

    btw this is clearly not a computer issue.
    Firefly board is a webapp most likely something in frontend is messed up.

    Win 11 / Chrome Version 149.0.7827.201 (Official Build) (64-bit)
    image2image 
    gpt-image-2
    Prompt: 

    Image 1 is a 3d model screenshot for an urban design scheme. Restyle image 1 to be photorealistic rendering with the style from other reference images for desert bushy landscape, design style and entourage. Do not carry over the placeholder color in the 3d model. Blue massing are office buildings sitting on a parking podium in the architecture style of reference 5, but with metal overhangs, white fins and louvers. The water feature and path follows style of reference 2. Landscape is dry, short, sparse and bushy. Pink is a series of retail pavilion under overhang roof with big windows in the style of reference 4. Purple is the building in reference 3. The lavender under the blue massing is a parking garage. Remaining grey context building stay grey massing blocks. Upper left is a park. Orange and yellow are patterned urban hardscape. Tan is pedestrian path. Green is short, dry sparse desert landscape. Add some middle east people entourage near the building. Add some vehicles on road. The time is late afternoon. strctly follow the camera, perspective and composition of screenshot.

     

     

    Tarun Saini
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    July 2, 2026

    Hi ​@iy31138139dmvz,

     

    Thanks for the detailed information. You can upload the reference image and the screenshot to a cloud storage service and then share that link with me via DM.

     

    Regards,

    Tarun

    Participating Frequently
    July 2, 2026

    agree. the credits just disappears and images never show up. there is no fallback no nothing. firefly simply charges you and give yo nothing.

    Participating Frequently
    July 2, 2026

    My credits were deducted but the no images were ever generated. I lose 250 credit in one turn. this is ridiculous. Firefly board sucks

    Tarun Saini
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    July 2, 2026

    Hi ​@iy31138139dmvz,

     

    I'm sorry to hear about your experience, and I completely understand how frustrating it is to lose credits without receiving any generated images.

    In most cases, if a generation fails, the credits are automatically returned to your account, although the restoration may not be immediate. If your credits have not been returned, do let us know to investigate further.

     

    Regards,

    Tarun

    Participating Frequently
    July 2, 2026

    no that didn’t happen. the credits were never returned and it has been over 12 hours. 
    How long it will take to return some credits? 7 days? 14 days? 

    April 20, 2026

    Hey ​@jaketheartist8 

    When images don’t generate you will get your credits back. It is not instantaneous. 

    Could you please reply with the following information:

    An example of the prompt that you are using as well would help.

    • A screen shot of the whole browser or application window (including your avatar in the upper right corner) with the error or problem showing or when the problem is happening (not just the error message itself).

    • What model were you using (such as Firefly Image 3, Firefly Image 4, Firefly Image 4 Ultra, Imagen 3, etc.)?

    • A copy of the keyframe(s) or reference images (if any) you were using.

    This helps us help you. Sometimes there might be a trigger word in the prompt.


    Common problems

    • Trademarked / Copyright
    • Political figures / Celebrities 
    • if it has children or child like images (an absolute no/ firefly will not generate anything that even resembles a child/ even childlike)

    or

    • - the prompt has words associated with children example: boy, girl, kid, kids, child, children and so on...
      Many Generation Models will not generate anything to do with children.
    • Nudity

    Cheers

    Nate