API Calls in Excel Considered Billable?

[dsouzaerrol89]

I am using API calls to read information in a Airtable Base and bring in values into Excel.

I only have one person as a Collaborator in airtable but multiple people have a copy of the Excel sheet in my team that use the sheet and its associated calls but they are not registered with Airtable.

I am on a free plan but I see that my Monthly API calls are over the 1000 person limit. I plan to upgrade to the Teams plan with will give me 100,000 calls but my question was if I do so do I need everyone who uses my Excel sheet added as a collaborator just because the sheet they have has the API calls?

[TheTimeSavingCo]

Hmm, API calls are a workspace limit so adding collaborators has no effect there.  If you're comfortable with using one set of credentials for everyone then that's fine and you don't need to add anyone else as a collaborator

If each person in the Sheet was making changes you want reflected back in Airtable then an argument could be made for making them collaborators, purely so that the revision history would accurately show who made what changes.  As a workaround, you could also just add this functionality as a custom script though