Credit usage

Track credit consumption across your workspace.

Overview

Track, analyze, and optimize your credit consumption by breaking down usage across workbooks, tables, and integrations.

Credit usage by table

To check the credit usage in your workspace:

  1. Click your account name in the corner.
  2. Go to Settings and then Credit usage in the sidebar.
  3. Within Workspace, you can view folders, workbooks, and tables sorted by their usage.

Sort the content by Name (alphabetically) or by number of Credits used by clicking the column titles. You can Export this content as a CSV.

Filter and sort credit usage

The columns in this view display:

  • Name: The folder, workbook, or table. Click the dropdown next to a folder or workbook to see the contents.
  • Usage: Marked as Recurring when it contains recurring credit usage (e.g., scheduled runs or signals).
  • Owner: The person who owns the project.
  • Credits used: The amount of credits used for this period.

Filter any of the content on this page by:

  1. When the credits were used.
  2. Owner of the project.
  3. Specific integrations being used.

Credit usage by integration

To view which integrations are using the most credits, click Integrations in the top bar next to Workspace.

Sort the content by Name (alphabetically) or by number of Credits used by clicking the column titles. You can Export this content as a CSV.

Credit estimates before running

Clay provides transparent cost estimates before you run enrichments or actions in your tables. This helps you understand and manage your credit usage.

Run cost breakdown

When you run a column that has dependent columns (downstream enrichments that will automatically trigger), you'll see:

  • Total estimated credits for the run.
  • Breakdown by column showing which columns will run and their individual costs.
  • Number of rows that will be affected.

This estimate appears for any column run that would trigger dependent enrichment columns, including runs initiated by:

  • Manual column runs
  • Changes to data sources
  • Adding new rows

Expensive run warnings

Clay shows a warning when you're about to initiate a run that will use a significant portion of your workspace's monthly credit allotment. Specifically:

  • Runs that cost more than 10% of your monthly credit allotment.
  • With a minimum threshold of 500 credits.
  • Runs over 50,000 credits will always trigger this warning.

This helps prevent accidental large credit expenditures.

Import warnings

When you import data to existing tables (via Copy Paste from URLs, adding a source, or CSV upload), you'll see a confirmation modal if the import would trigger downstream actions. This modal:

  • Warns you about potential credit usage from auto-running enrichments
  • Shows estimated credit impact
  • Gives you the option to toggle auto-run off for the table before importing

This prevents unexpected credit usage when you add new data to tables with existing enrichment workflows.

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