Hello, everyone.
I have some questions and couldn’t find any CLEAR, OBJECTIVE, AND TRANSPARENT discussion about them. That’s why I decided to open a topic to try to get a direct, objective, and well-founded answer.
I use N8N in the cloud, but the charging criteria for activations is very obscure to me.
For example: if I have more than one trigger in the same automation, is the charge made for EACH TRIGGER, regardless of whether they are activated or not, or only when they are triggered?
Additionally, if I have an agent with multiple sub-agents (tools like sub-flows), do the activations of these secondary flows count as activations, or is only the activation of the main flow counted?
I would like to have a clearer view of how we are charged, as this directly and profoundly impacts our pricing in providing services to third parties.
Thank you for your attention and help!
I think it’s so clear and simple, you get charged for “workflow executions with unlimited steps”
An execution is a single run of your entire workflow. We don’t count the tasks or operations within the workflow, or how much data it processes. So what takes 10,000 operations in a competing tool can often be done with a single execution.
I greatly appreciate your contribution, dear colleague. But unfortunately, it did not help more than the official documentation, which is already not clear enough regarding my questions, which were SPECIFIC and clear.
01 - I know that I have unlimited steps in an execution. But nowhere does it mention whether triggers within workflows are counted or not. My objective question was: Does the number of triggers within a workflow alter the number of executions counted? This information is not clearly available, and unfortunately, your response, although quick, did not help clarify.
02 - Similarly, there is no OFFICIAL information or anything in the documentation about whether the activation of sub-flows is counted as executions or not. After all, executions of sub-flows are executions. But they don’t have direct triggers. So: do they count or not against the monthly execution limit? This question, which is valid and has no official answer, was also not addressed by your interaction, unfortunately.
I thank you very much for your prompt response, but I fear that your answer has kept me in the same place where I already was: without answers.
Thank you very much, and I wish you success on your journey!
Bumping this thread. I share the same question when it comes to #2. I have a workflow (A) that uses a sub-workflow (B)… When workflow A is triggered, does it count as two executions since A will trigger B? Or, does the sub-execution of B not count?