Tokens, explained with the dramas

House rules: Candy tokens, act by act

Candy AI tokens are the currency that unlocks paid features, including later Shorts episodes. Premium adds 100 tokens each month, and you can buy more at any time. In Shorts, the price of a later episode is either twelve tokens or thirty. The table on this page shows what that adds up to and how far one month of tokens goes, and the rule on unused tokens is below, including where Candy contradicts itself.

Tokens and the dramas

A 12-token act	187 open dramas price their paid acts at 12
A 30-token act	17 open dramas price them at 30
Tokens with Premium	100 a month, on your renewal day
12-token acts per month	8
Every paid act of every open drama	9,606 tokens

How tokens work

Premium adds 100 tokens each month, on your renewal day. Yearly subscribers get them monthly too, not in one lump. You can also buy more tokens whenever you like on Candy's tokens page, so you are not stuck if a series runs past your allowance.

Tokens unlock more than Shorts. They also pay for image and video generation, creating a custom AI, voice messages, voice calls and My Private Content packs. A token spent on one of those is not available for an episode, so a month of tokens has to stretch across everything you do on Candy.

In our reading, 187 open series charge twelve tokens per later episode and 17 charge thirty. Unlocking every paid episode of every open series would take 9,606 tokens, but 175 series cost thirty-six tokens or less to finish. One month of Premium tokens covers 199 open series.

Unused tokens and the rules

Tokens have limits. They cannot be transferred to another account, traded, exchanged for money or used to settle payments. They are an in-service credit, not a wallet.

What happens when Premium ends is where Candy contradicts itself. The Terms, in the section on subscriptions, say remaining tokens expire at the end of the billing period and do not carry over. A Help Center article says cancelling does not delete the balance. Both are Candy's words, and they cannot both be right.

We would trust the Terms, because the Terms are the contract. Plan on spending your tokens before the period ends, and treat any leftover as a bonus rather than a promise. If the amount matters to you, ask Candy support and keep the reply. And remember that a refund or a chargeback revokes the remaining tokens at once, as our refunds page explains.

Questions people ask

What does a month of Premium add in tokens?

Premium adds 100 tokens a month, on the renewal day. Yearly subscribers receive them monthly. Premium Plus includes 330 tokens a month, according to Candy's Help Center.

How many tokens per episode on Candy?

In our reading, each later act is priced at twelve or thirty tokens, depending on the series. The first act is free, and the second only needs a login.

Can I buy more tokens?

Yes. You can buy more at any time on Candy's tokens page, whether or not you have Premium. Prices are shown there, and they may change, so look at the screen before you pay for a pack.

Do unused tokens carry over?

The Terms say they expire when the billing period ends. One Help Center article says cancelling keeps the balance. The two disagree, and the Terms are the contract.

Can I trade or cash out tokens?

No. Tokens can't be moved to another account, swapped for something else, turned into money or used to settle payments. They only work inside Candy, so think of them as ticket stubs, not cash.