A well-marked route tells you the distance before you walk it. This desk works the same way: every job prints its exact credit cost before you confirm it, and the craft is in reading that quote the way you would read a marker board — before the leg, not after it.
The standard still is the short leg: 6 credits, priced flat, ideal for proving a character and building a series. The premium still at 41 credits is the summit leg — worth it for the frame that fronts a pack, wasteful for daily series work. Edits at 21 and face swaps at 26 are the repair legs, spent on frames that already earned their place. Upscalers, at 61 for images and from 101 for video, are the final descent: delivery only.
Video quotes deserve a slower read, because they are calculated per job by duration and resolution. The figure is printed before you confirm; check it the way you would check any marker — does this leg, at this length, earn its cost?
Nothing at this desk charges silently and a failed job refunds itself. The only way to overspend here is to stop reading the signs.