What You Actually Get From an iSuggest.ai Account

If you've run a free audit on iSuggest.ai but never logged into the account behind it, here's the honest, un-hyped tour: what's actually on /account, what it's for, and — just as importantly — what isn't there yet.

By the iSuggest.ai Team · Updated for 2026

Your credit balance, front and center

The top of /account is a single card with one number: your current credit balance. That number only moves when you spend credits publishing a report to an AI directory — Gemini, ChatGPT, or Claude. Running audits themselves doesn't touch it; audits are free and unlimited. New accounts start with a signup bonus, so most people have something to work with before they ever think about the credit system in detail. If you want the full mechanics of how balances are earned and spent, we cover that separately in Credit System Explained: Fair, Simple Publishing — this post is about where you actually see and manage it, not how it's priced.

A short, honest ledger — not a full statement

Right below the balance is a "recent activity" card. It's a ledger, but a modest one: up to eight recent entries, each showing what happened (your signup bonus, a publish, any other adjustment), the date, and the amount, with positive changes in green and negative ones in amber. If you've just signed up, it says plainly that there's nothing yet and that your bonus and any future spending will show up there. What it isn't is a full exportable transaction history or a statement you can download — if you need to audit spending going back further than the last handful of entries, that's not a feature of the account page today. We'd rather say that clearly than let you assume it exists.

Your own Gemini key, not one we generate for you

Further down is a section for a Gemini API key. It's easy to misread this as iSuggest issuing you a key — it doesn't. This is a place to paste in your own Gemini API key, which the product then uses on your behalf for AI-assisted suggestions. Once saved, it's masked, and each key has to be unique across accounts, so you can't accidentally reuse a key that's already registered to someone else. If you don't add one, the parts of the product that lean on it simply aren't available to you yet — there's no hidden fallback pretending to be your own key.

The developer API key, if you want to script it

The last piece is a developer API key — prefixed isk_ — that lets you call the iSuggest.ai API as yourself, scoped strictly to your own account's data. You can generate one, reissue it, or revoke it from this same section. The full key is only ever shown once, right when you create it; after that, you only see the prefix, so treat the moment it's issued as the one chance to copy it somewhere safe. This is the same mechanism referenced in the workflow walkthrough we published earlier — see From Audit to Publish: iSuggest Workflow Walkthrough for how an audit, a suggestion, and a directory publish actually chain together, whether you're clicking through the UI or scripting the same steps with this key.

What's deliberately not on this page

In the interest of not overselling a simple tool, here's what /account does not do: there's no billing or subscription management, no invoices, no pricing-tier selector — because there isn't a subscription to manage in the first place. There's no profile editor, no password field (sessions are email-and-OTP only), and no team or multi-user administration. And your audit history itself doesn't live here — that's on the separate dashboard, organized by domain. The account page has one job: manage credits and the two kinds of keys that connect to your account. It does that job and stops.

Where this fits into the rest of the product

None of this is meant to be exciting on its own — it's plumbing. The actual work happens when you run an audit from the homepage, review what it finds, and decide whether a page is ready to publish into an AI directory. The account page is just where the account-level bookkeeping for that process lives: how many credits you have left, a short record of what you've spent them on, and the two keys that let the product (or your own code) act on your behalf. If you haven't looked at it yet, it takes about thirty seconds to see everything described here. Start with how it works if you want the bigger picture first, or head straight to your account if you already know what you're looking for.