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Billing questions on one time need purchases of AI credits

  • February 1, 2026
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growthoutcome
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I hope this finds you well.
 
I recently upgraded my plans AI credits to accommodate some initial needs around adding data to my base. I will not need that amount of AI credits next month.

That said, here are couple questions:
  1. What date will I be charged for my team plan? I cannot find this information in my workspace settings.
  2. If I downgrade my plans AI credits will I lose the AI credits I've already paid for?
 
FYI - Would Airtable consider adopting a BYOK model? Or possibly separate AI credit purchases from the plan itself. Gemini suggested that Airtable is charging a 5000% markup on AI credits when compared to standard API usage pricing. Does that sound accurate to you?

Humbly and respectfully,

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ScottWorld
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  • February 1, 2026

​@growthoutcome 

Not sure if you want to stay 100% entirely within Airtable or if you’re open to using external 3rd-party apps, but if you’re looking for a cheaper, pay-as-you-go model, you might want to consider outsourcing your AI automations to Make’s advanced automations and integrations.

Make lets you integrate Airtable with ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, or any other AI tool that you’d like — and their pricing is cheaper & more flexible than Airtable’s pricing. You can even purchase just a temporary batch of extra credits to hold you over until the next billing cycle. And if you accidentally run out of credits, Make can automatically purchase small batches of credits for you.

Also, any changes that you make to your credits take place instantly.

Even better, Make’s automations are infinitely more powerful & customizable than Airtable’s automations.

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 many different 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!

If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

TheTimeSavingCo
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I reckon you may want to open a support ticket with Airtable directly about this one

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re: Or possibly separate AI credit purchases from the plan itself.

Airtable lets you do that (via the FAQ here: https://support.airtable.com/docs/airtable-ai-billing).  There isn’t a link in the docs indicating how to do that though, and someone posted a thing about the credits only being applied for next month instead of immediately?  May want to ask about that too when you open the support ticket!
 

Adam, Airtable Consultant - thetimesaving.company
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