# Manage your team's Postman Flows credit usage

Postman provides tools to help you manage your team's usage of credits in Postman Flows. You get a certain [number of credits](#how-flows-consume-credits) each month. The amount of credits you get depends on your [Postman plan](https://www.postman.com/pricing/#postman-flows-add-on-pricing) and whether you purchased the Flows [add-on](/docs/billing/billing/#purchasing-add-on-products). You consume credits when certain blocks are triggered and each time a deployed flow runs in the cloud.

You can use the [Resource usage dashboard](https://go.postman.co/usage) to track the number of credits that have been consumed against your plan's monthly usage limit. You can also [enable overages](#enable-flows-overages) if needed.

## View flows usage

The maximum number of credits your flows can consume each month depends on your [Postman plan](https://www.postman.com/pricing/) and if you purchased the Flows [add-on](/docs/billing/billing/#purchasing-add-on-products). To check your team's current credit usage, select **Team > Resource Usage** to open the [Resource Usage dashboard](https://go.postman.co/usage).

When you reach your monthly credit limit, deployed flows and flows that include credit-consuming blocks will complete their current runs. Then they'll be suspended until the next billing cycle, or until overages are enabled.

## How Flows consume credits

The following table shows how many credits you get each month depending on your plan and whether you purchased the Flows add-on:

|                      | Free  | Basic  | Professional |
| -------------------- | ----- | ------ | ------------ |
| Without Flows add-on | 500   | 500    | 500          |
| With Flows add-on    | 5,000 | 25,000 | 100,000      |

A deployed flow consumes one credit each time it runs in the cloud. The following blocks consume one additional credit each time they run in a deployed flow:

* [**HTTP Request**](/docs/postman-flows/reference/blocks/http-request/)
* [**AI Request**](/docs/postman-flows/reference/blocks/ai-request/)
* [**Evaluate**](/docs/postman-flows/reference/blocks/evaluate/)

[**Connector** blocks](/docs/postman-flows/reference/blocks/connector/) consume two credits each time they run.

The [**Create with AI** block](/docs/postman-flows/reference/blocks/create-with-ai/) consumes multiple credits each time it runs or tests a prompt. The number of credits consumed depends on which AI model the block is configured to use, shown in this table:

| Model       | Free, Basic, and Professional plans |
| ----------- | ----------------------------------- |
| GPT-4o      | 15 credits                          |
| GPT-4o mini | 1 credit                            |
| GPT-4       | 25 credits                          |
| GPT-3.5     | 5 credits                           |

The [**AI Agent** block](/docs/postman-flows/reference/blocks/ai-agent/) consumes one or more credits each time it calls an AI model. The block may call an AI model multiple times during a single run. For example, the **AI Agent** block may call an AI model one or more times for each tool it uses in a single run. The number of credits consumed depends on the block's configured AI model, shown in this table:

| Model        | Free, Basic, and Professional plans |
| ------------ | ----------------------------------- |
| GPT-5 nano   | 1 credit                            |
| GPT-5 mini   | 2 credits                           |
| GPT-5        | 10 credits                          |
| GPT-4.1 nano | 1 credit                            |
| GPT-4.1 mini | 2 credits                           |
| GPT-4.1      | 10 credits                          |
| GPT-4o       | 13 credits                          |
| GPT-4o mini  | 1 credit                            |
| o3           | 10 credits                          |
| o3 mini      | 5 credits                           |

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  The number of credits consumed by AI models is subject to change. Postman will notify you in advance of any such change.
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### AI-generated images

The **Create with AI** block uses DALL·E 3 to generate images. It consumes 10 credits each time it generates an image, regardless of which plan you're on.

## Enable flows overages

Without the Flows [add-on](/docs/billing/billing/#purchasing-add-on-products), when you've reached your monthly credit limit, credit-consuming blocks and deployed flows will stop running until the next billing cycle. To continue using these blocks and deployed flows before the next billing cycle, you'll need to [upgrade your Postman plan](https://go.postman.co/purchase).

On Free, Basic, and Professional plans, you can enable flows overages if you've purchased the Flows add-on. With it enabled, you are charged for and get 1,000 credits each time you exceed your previous allotment.

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  Flows overages are deactivated by default for paid seats. To enable overages, select **Team > Resource Usage** to open the [**Resource usage** dashboard](https://go.postman.co/usage), and then turn on **Pay-as-you-go** under **Flows Credits**.
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  Pay-as-you-go for Postman Flows isn't available with the Enterprise plan. If you're an Enterprise customer, please contact the Postman sales team when approaching your Flows credit limit.
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