You do not need a membership to use UNIfy, and you do not need to be signed in to open it. Every UNIfy page loads for anyone: the chat, and the Render, Stage, Upscale, Edit, Jobs and Assets pages. What you need an account for is the moment you actually do something. Signed out, you can look at all of it and run none of it.
That is why nothing warns you at the door. The check happens at the button, not at the page.
Where the sign-in prompt appears
- Send in the chat. A login window opens and the page reloads once you are in.
- Generate on the Render, Stage, Upscale and Edit pages. Your uploaded image and your settings are on the page but nothing is submitted.
- Buy Credits. The purchase does not start until you are signed in.
Two things look broken while you are signed out rather than telling you why. Your credit balance beside the Generate button reads ... instead of a number, because a balance can only be fetched for an account. Jobs and Assets show as empty, because both list your own work and you do not have any yet.
What a free account gets you
Signing in is enough for most of what UNIfy does. Every account gets 3 credits once, not three a day, and a free daily allowance of five images generated in chat, which resets at midnight UTC. Those five cover the best model at every resolution.
The Render, Stage, Upscale and Edit pages are the exception: they charge credits from the first image and never draw on the free daily allowance. Renders in chat are free each day, the tool pages are not sets out the price of each one.
What a membership adds
Two things are gated on membership rather than on credits.
- Video generation needs an active Semester plan or above. Holding credits is not enough on the Weekly or Monthly plans. See AI video generation.
- Buying a credit pack needs an active paid membership. Without one, checkout refuses with a message saying an active membership is required. See buying a credit pack.
A paid membership also tops your credits up each cycle, which is the practical difference between running out on day one and not thinking about it.
If you were signed in and it still stopped you
A sign-in window appearing when you know you are signed in usually means the session behind the tab has gone stale rather than that anything is wrong with your account. Signing in through the window fixes it and reloads the page. Why two open tabs can disagree about whether you are signed in explains when that happens.