Ran into automation limits

Hey ​@speclabs23,

I believe you are making reference to the “runs” limit and not the automation counts limit.
 

Unfortunately there is no “backdoor” escalation path outside of Airtable support or an Account Manager for hitting limits on automations. On Business, Airtable staff can sometimes reset your monthly automation runs or temporarily bump limits.

In parallel, you might want to immediately:  
1. Turn off all non‑critical automations in that workspace so when Airtable resets or extends your runs you do not blow through them again in a few minutes.  
2. Identify the minimum automations required to keep critical workflows going and consider offloading them to an external tool like Make or Zapier or n8n (more on these here) until month‑end, since external runs are not subject to Airtable’s quota.

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​@speclabs23 

Unfortunately, as ​@Mike_AutomaticN mentioned above, would need to email support@airtable.com to ask them to reset your automation run limit for the month.

In the meantime, a very quick way to reset your automation runs immediately (right now!) would be to pay for a new Airtable workspace, and then move your base into that new workspace. Automation runs are based on the workspace (not the base itself), which is why this trick works.

However, your best long-term solution is typically to outsource most (or all) of your Airtable automations to Make’s advanced automations for Airtable.

Make has absolutely no limits on automation runs, because you can always pay for more runs. Make’s automations are also infinitely more customizable & powerful than Airtable’s automations, and they also allow you to integrate with any other app on the web.

If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread. For example, here is one of the ways that you can instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable. 

I also give live demonstrations of how to use Make in many of my Airtable podcast appearances. For example, in this video, I show how to work with Airtable arrays in Make.

Hope this helps!

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Hi there! Automations have two types of limits 

• Run limits (which reset on the first day of each calendar month)
• Automation count limits (how many automations you can have in a base

Based on what you’re saying I’m guessing you’re running into the former (the run limit), which Airtable can often help with. Have you been able to get your issue resolved? If not and you’re on a self-serve plan shoot me a note and I can help flag it in the system for you.

That said, even if Airtable resets your monthly run limit, it’s not a long term fix. Usually when people are running into run limit issues in Airtable it comes from one of the following root issues:

• There is a rogue automation that is firing far more than it should
  • This tends to happen when someone makes a change in the base and didn’t check dependencies. It’s usually something that gets caught once it’s run wild and then adjusted so it’s not an ongoing issue.
• The trigger for one (or many) of your automations aren’t as precise as they can/should be
  • It’s really common that people will have a trigger that isn’t narrowed down. This most commonly happens if you use the trigger condition “when a record enters a view” and that view isn’t locked or when the trigger condition is watching fields that are either formulas or regularly edited. This can be especially challenging to notice if you have conditional actions since it will attempt to run the automation, but no action is happening since it doesn’t fall into any of the conditional action steps. 
• You’re automation stack within Airtable isn’t as efficient as it could be
  • This is really common when people are getting started and notification focused automations (that only notify and aren’t paired with action) tend to be a really bad offender for companies of all sizes though it usually happens with the trigger issue above.
• You’re truly hitting the capacity of Airtable run limits
  • This is certainly possible! We see this regularly especially for when organizations are running their end-to-end operations on Airtable. This is where an external tool like the other commenters suggested comes in. (FWIW Make has better error handling and is very reasonably priced compared to Zapier, but Zapier is often easier for non-technical users.