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title: Manage your team's Postman Flows credit usage
updated: 2026-03-01T00:00:00.000Z
slug: docs/billing/flows-usage
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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/). 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/). 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
There are two types of Flows runs:
* Manual runs (clicking the run button in the app) only consume credits for blocks that execute in the cloud, such as AI Request and Connector blocks.
* Automated Cloud runs (triggered by API or MCP) consume credits for premium blocks including the HTTP Request, Logic blocks, in addition to AI and Connector blocks.
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/)
* Logic blocks ([**Evaluate**](/docs/postman-flows/reference/blocks/evaluate/), [**Condition**](/docs/postman-flows/reference/blocks/condition/), [**Validate**](/docs/postman-flows/reference/blocks/if/) and [**If**](/docs/postman-flows/reference/blocks/validate/).
[**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 | Credits used |
| ----------- | ------------ |
| 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:
| AI Agent models + tools | Credits per run - all run types |
| ----------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| Each MCP Tool | 2 credits + if an MCP flow, the credits of that flow |
| GPT-5 | 10 credits |
| GPT-5 mini | 2 credits |
| GPT-5 nano | 1 credit |
| GPT-4 | 25 credits |
| GPT-4o | 15 credits |
| GPT-4o mini | 2 credits |
The number of credits consumed by AI models is subject to change.
### 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
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 paid plans, you can enable flows overages. With it enabled, you are charged for and get 1,000 credits each time you exceed your previous allotment.
Unused flows credits don't roll over to the next billing cycle.
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**.