Step & AI credit usage

Relay.app measures usage across two dimensions:

1. Number of Steps completed per month

2. Number of AI credits used per month

Our plans let you pick and adjust the amount of monthly Step and AI credit limits that fit your needs.

What counts as a Step

A Step is consumed every time...

1. an action in another app has completed (e.g. sending a Slack message or updating a HubSpot contact)

2. a built-in action has completed (including AI steps and scraping a website)

3. a Wait for object to match rule step is completed

4. a Human-in-the-Loop step is activated (i.e. the initial notification has been sent)

Exceptions

The following steps *don't* consume Step credits when completed:

• Triggers (neither polling or kicking off runs are consuming Step credits)

• End run steps

• Wait for time steps

• Transform data steps

• Path rule evaluations (only steps inside Paths are consuming Step credits)

• Iterator evaluations

What AI credits are used for

AI credits are a single pool of credits that can be used to perform AI-powered actions using any supported model provider (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic's Claude, Google Gemini, Elevenlabs).

In addition to AI steps, AI credits are used for a number of other step types that have a meaningful variable cost component, including:

• Web scraping

• Audio transcription & TTS

• Image generation

How do I know whether a step uses AI credits?

Steps that use AI credits are clearly marked as such in the Step menu. In cases where you can manually specify the AI model, the model picker will show whether AI credits are used (when you connect your own model provider account, this won't be the case)

Steps that consume AI credits have the 'AI credits' badge in the menu

The 'AI credits' badge in the model picker

How do I know how many AI credits will be used?

Learn more about this here, it depends.

Good to know

• Testing workflows/steps won't consume any AI credits.

• AI Credits are consumed in addition to regular Step credits. Every step always consumes a Step credit. AI credits are only used in the cases above, in addition to the Step credit the step consumes.

• AI credit usage might (drastically) vary across runs for the same step depending on the data/context in a workflow run. Learn more here.

Insights in Step/AI Credit usage

Overall usage (in the current billing cycle)

You can see how many Steps and AI credits have been used thus far in the current billing cycle in the bottom-left on the Home screen. It also shows when usage will reset back to 0.

The widget on the bottom-left on the Home screen shows how many Steps and AI credits are used across the workspace in the current billing cycle.

Workflow-specific usage

In the Workflows view you can see how many Steps and AI credits are used for a given Workflow in the current billing cycle.

To sort workflows by # of Steps or AI credits used, click on any of the headers. Here's a shortcut.

In the Workflows view you can see how many Steps and AI credits are used by a specific Workflow in the current billing cycle

Run-specifc usage

From the Run view

When in the Run view for a specific workflow run, you can see how many Steps and AI credits were consumed in this run, as well as how many AI credits were consumed for the relevant steps.

The Run view for a specific run shows the Step and AI credit usage for this run, as well as for individual steps

From the Runs page in the Workspace

The Runs view shows how many Steps and AI credits were used by recently completed runs.

The Runs view shows how many Steps and AI credits were used by recently completed runs.