Hi everyone, I have a question about how Clay credits are deducted during an enrichment task. Let’s say I run a specific enrichment on a table with around 5,000 rows, but I’m only enriching 5 fields. If the enrichment is in progress and I shut down my computer or stop the process midway, how does Clay handle credit usage? Specifically: Are credits deducted row by row as each record is enriched? Or are credits only deducted after the entire enrichment finishes? For example, if only 10 rows get enriched before the process stops, will only 10 credits be deducted?
Or would Clay still show credits deducted as if the full 5,000 rows completed?
Basically, I want to understand whether credit usage is incremental or finalized only after the full table run completes. Thanks in advance for the clarification!
Credits are deducted incrementally as each row gets processed, not after the entire enrichment completes. [1]
So if you stop the process after 10 rows are enriched, you'll only be charged for those 10 rows - not the full 5,000. This happens because requests that are already sent to data providers will consume credits even if you stop the process early.
The key thing to remember is that once a request is sent to enrich a specific row, that credit is used regardless of whether you let the full table finish running.
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row by row
If I give enrich company instructions to clay for 5000 auto run is on so how will it consume credit After finishing all the row or it will take as it use like if it complete 50 row so it will take 50 credit Or it will decuted as starting after giving instruction like 5000 credit
it will consume credits with each cell run not after 50 or 100 rows,
1by 1 right?
yes
Not at the end of task right?
no
Thank you for your help
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