Using All of Us Initial Credits

To get started using All of Us credits, you simply need to begin your research. The $300 credits will automatically be applied to computation costs incurred for your created workspace. 

Credit usage within a workspace is sourced from the workspace creator’s credit bank, meaning if a researcher creates a workspace and adds other researchers as collaborators on it, all compute costs incurred for that collaborators work within the workspace will be charged through the workspace creator. This cannot be changed.

Researchers can check how much of the initial credit balance has been spent at any time by visiting their Researcher Workbench profile page.

To check your credit balance and expiration date

1. Log in to the Researcher Workbench.
   
   
2. Click the menu icon ().
   
   
   
   
3. Click the down arrow ().
   
   
   
   
4. Click "Profile."
   
   
   
   
5. View the amount of All of Us initial credits used and remaining as well as the expiration date.
   Note: The "All of Us initial credits used:" is the amount of money you have spent in your workspace, and the "Remaining All of Us initial credits:" is the amount of money you have remaining in your account.
   
   

Once your initial credits are exhausted or expire, you need to set up a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) billing account to pay for additional computational costs. Your spend will no longer be visible via your profile page, but instead, will be managed within your own Google billing account console. Read about setting up a GCP billing account.

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