Step & AI credit usage
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Relay.app measures usage across two dimensions:
Number of Steps completed per month
Number of AI credits used per month
Our let you pick and adjust the amount of monthly Step and AI credit limits that fit your needs.
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 , or )
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)
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
Image generation
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.
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 credits are used for a number of other step types that have a meaningful variable cost component, including:
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 model provider account, this won't be the case)
, it depends.
AI credit usage might (drastically) vary across runs for the same step depending on the data/context in a workflow run. .
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 . It also shows when usage will reset back to 0.
In the 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. .
The shows how many Steps and AI credits were used by recently completed runs.