Usage & Billing
Flowera is pay-as-you-go. There's no monthly seat fee and no plan to outgrow — you top up a wallet with credit, and each flow run draws from it.
How Flowera charges
Credit comes out of the wallet as your flows run. Nothing is charged for building a flow, storing it, or leaving it switched off; you pay for what actually executes.
That makes cost proportional to use, which is usually what you want — but it also means an unattended automation or a public shared link spends money without anyone watching. The Usage Dashboard exists for exactly that.
What makes up a cost
A single flow run can accrue up to five kinds of charge:
| Component | Charged for | Depends on |
|---|---|---|
| Input tokens | Text sent to the model — prompt, history, retrieved passages | Prompt length, memory, retrieval |
| Output tokens | Text the model generates | Reply length |
| Execution time | Wall-clock seconds AI nodes and paid tools spend running | Model speed, waiting on tools |
| Requests / voice | Paid tools charged per call, and per-minute speech | The specific tool |
| Node fees | A fixed fee for every other node and tool that runs — $0.001, or $0.01 for a WhatsApp template or flow message and a PDF | Number of nodes, messages sent |
Two things follow from this:
- The model you choose is the biggest lever. A flagship model can cost 20–30× a small one per message. See Choosing a model.
- Long conversations get more expensive per message, because the whole history is re-sent each turn. Memory settings control how much.
Pricing has the rates and the fixed fees; Execution time explains the one people don't expect.
Where to see what you have spent
The Usage Dashboard in the left menu breaks spend down by flow, by node, by session, and over time. It's the difference between "we spent $60 last month" and "we spent $60 last month and $41 of it was one misconfigured Agent".
Your current balance is always in the top bar, and the wallet's transaction history shows every top-up, bonus, and deduction.
Keeping your balance topped up
| Mechanism | What it does |
|---|---|
| Credits & wallet | Buy credit manually whenever you like |
| Auto-recharge | Top up automatically when the balance drops below a threshold |
| Low balance | Warnings before you run out — and what happens if you do |
| Welcome credit | $10 of free credit for every new account |
If flows are live and answering customers, turn on auto-recharge. A zero balance stops your agents mid-conversation, and a customer who gets no reply doesn't know why.
In this section
- Pricing — the rate card and how to read it
- Execution time — the per-second charge on AI nodes and paid tools
- Credits & wallet — buying and tracking credit
- Auto-recharge — automatic top-ups
- Low balance — warnings and running out
- Welcome credit — the $10 every new account starts with
- Usage Dashboard — where the money went