Step & AI credit usage
Relay.app measures usage across two dimensions:
Number of Steps completed per month
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...
an action in another app has completed (e.g. sending a Slack message or updating a HubSpot contact)
a built-in action has completed (including AI steps, transforming data or scraping a website)
a Wait for object to match rule step is completed
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
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:
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)
How do I know how many AI credits will be used?
Learn more about this here, it depends.
Good to know
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.
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.
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.
From the Runs page in the Workspace
The Runs view shows how many Steps and AI credits were used by recently completed runs.
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