Our company is on a paid plan, but we’ve noticed a significant increase in credit consumption. It seems like our cost has jumped from $20 to $60 or even $120, which is quite unexpected.
We would like to understand which automations consume the most credits and how much each one is using. Where can we find a detailed history of Playbook consumption per day or month? Is there an even more granular breakdown available?
Our team is not comfortable continuing to pay without a clear and transparent understanding of how usage is being counted. Please provide guidance on where to find this information or how we can analyze our consumption more effectively.
I understand your concerns regarding credit consumption. As part of our pricing update, the way credits are calculated has changed, which may explain the increase you’re seeing. We sent out notifications regarding these changes via email, but I completely understand wanting more clarity on your usage.
Here’s a guide on how credits work and where to track them: How Does the Credit System Work?
If your team needs help optimizing automations to reduce credit consumption, I’d be happy to take a look at your workflow and suggest improvements. Let me know how you’d like to proceed!
We are considering hiring a guy to make us custom solution on open source for scarping tool + airtable API since 120$ per month is way too expensive. ’
It is cheaper to hire and pay one time fee 300-500$ and then use it free or minimum support expenses.
With bardeen now we will spend 12x120 = 1440$ per year is wayyy to expensive for us. And I dont think it is possible to optimize it since there are only two steps - scarp lines from cart → add via API to airtable. There are many lines every day we are transfering from parts shop to our ERP and we are cheap autoservice so we can’t pay for your solution more than we pay for what we pay for ERP + CRM + Telephony. This is just crazy expensive for one function out of many in our systems ERP + CRM + Telephony. I think you have to rethink your pricing and make it more like in make.com if you count each line.
We can pay maximum 50$ for our usage to keep it competitive, if it is higher price then it is cheaper to invest into custom solution development for our needs. Hope you can think about it.
Thanks for sharing your perspective—I completely understand your concerns.
Bardeen’s pricing is structured around providing an all-in-one automation platform rather than just a scraping tool, which is why costs can add up for high-volume use cases like yours. In cases where there’s a simple, repetitive task with extremely high usage, I agree that a custom-built solution could be more cost-effective in the long run.
That said, I do appreciate your feedback, and I’ll pass it along to the team. If anything changes on our side in the future, I’d be happy to update you. And if there’s anything I can help with in the meantime, just let me know!
