Why are my credits being used so fast?
If your credit balance is dropping faster than expected, it usually means a workflow is running credit-costing actions more often than you realised. The biggest culprits are enrichment, engagement lookups, and loops.
Credit Costs Per Action
Why Credits Can Burn Quickly
1. Actions inside loops multiply
If a workflow loops through 100 posts and runs Person Enrichment on each one, that is 100 enrichment runs. At 4 credits each, that step alone costs 400 credits.
2. Engagement lookups are per engagement
Actions such as Get Post Likes and Get Post Comments charge per engagement returned. A single popular post can therefore use more credits than expected.
3. Enrichment before filtering is expensive
If you enrich every author before checking whether the post is relevant, you pay for enrichment on people you may never contact.
How to Reduce Credit Usage
Filter before enriching. Use an If Condition or agent to qualify posts before running enrichment.
Limit max results. Do not fetch hundreds of posts if the workflow only needs a small sample.
Use the right search frequency. Daily or Bi-Daily searches cost more than weekly searches because they run more often.
Inspect the Output tab. Check how many items each run processed and which node consumed the credits.
Be careful with engagement actions. Likes and comments can return many records from a single post.
Where to Check Usage
Go to Settings → Credit Usage to review recent usage. Credit reporting may not be real-time, so allow some time for the latest usage to appear.
Best Practice Workflow Order
Good: Trigger → qualify/filter → enrich → send to CRM or outreach.
Expensive: Trigger → enrich everyone → filter later.