What counts towards my airtable automation limit?

[B25Mitch]

One of Airtable's FAQs on how to use a form to modify existing records utilizes automations. Fine, but if I'm going to use this a dozen times a day I'm going to be hitting my 100 monthly automation runs pretty fast, especially since I also want to email daily and weekly reports.

So I ask, do automations acting exclusively within Airtable count towards that 100 number?

[ScottWorld]

Yes they do. Since you're on the free plan, you would be much better off using Fillout's forms to update records in Airtable, where each form load & each form submission would count towards your 1,000 API limit.