Choose Swift, Balanced or Deep
What Swift, Balanced and Deep change when Ando writes or answers, where to choose one, which plans include each, and how each affects your AI credits.
Swift, Balanced and Deep are the three ways Ando can think when it writes a chapter, answers you in a story or brainstorms with you. Swift is the quickest and uses the fewest AI credits, Balanced suits most chapters and conversations, and Deep is for the chapters and questions that matter most. Each step up uses more credits.
What each one is for
For chapters | For Ando and brainstorms | |
|---|---|---|
Swift | Quick first drafts | Fast, economical writing help |
Balanced | Polished prose for most chapters | Everyday ideas, questions and revisions |
Deep | Your richest prose, for the chapters that matter most | More demanding reasoning and revision |
A good habit: draft with Swift while you're finding your way through a story, use Balanced for most of your writing, and save Deep for a key chapter, such as an opening or a climax, or a hard question about your plot.
Where to choose
You choose in three places, each next to where you ask Ando for something:
- Writing a chapter: next to Generate chapter or Continue chapter, just above the chapter's text.
- Ando's panel in a story: below the message box, next to the menu for what your message is about.
- A brainstorm: below the message box.
Select the menu, which shows the one you're using, such as Swift, then choose another.
Storiando remembers your choice in each place separately, on the browser you're using: choosing Deep for a chapter leaves Ando's panel and your brainstorms as they were. Until you choose, each place uses Swift.
Changing your choice only affects what you ask for next. A chapter Ando is already writing, or an answer it is already giving, carries on as it started.
Other AI actions, such as Suggest or Improve, don't offer a choice. They work the same way on every plan.
How it affects your credits
Each tier uses AI credits at its own rate, and the menu shows how they compare before you choose:
- For chapters, it shows about how many credits a chapter uses on each tier, for a chapter of about 2,500 words. Longer chapters cost more.
- In Ando's panel and brainstorms, Swift shows costs least, and the others show about how many times as many credits they use.
These figures are estimates. What a task really uses depends on how much Ando writes and how much of your story it reads, and a chapter uses far more than an answer from Ando. Your credit history on the Credits page shows which tier each chapter or reply from Ando used.
Which plans include each
Free | Creator | Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
Swift | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Balanced | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Deep | Yes |
On Free and Creator, Deep appears in the menu but can't be chosen, with Included with Pro beneath it. Select Compare plans at the bottom of the menu to see what Pro adds. Prices and allowances are on the Plans page.
If you were on Pro and change to another plan, places where you'd chosen Deep go back to Swift. Return to Pro and Deep is back where you left it.
If Storiando ever says Deep comes with the Pro plan when you ask Ando for something, nothing was charged. Choose Swift or Balanced and try again.
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