How Does FlowHunt Pricing Works

FlowHunt makes AI workflow pricing transparent and straightforward by using a credit-based system. This guide will help you understand how pricing, credits, and workflow interactions work, enabling you to estimate your costs, optimize usage, and avoid unexpected expenses.

What Are FlowHunt Credits?

To streamline billing across various AI models and tasks, FlowHunt uses its own Credits system. Each FlowHunt credit is worth approximately $1, making expense tracking straightforward. Most interactions, especially simple customer service queries, cost just fractions of a credit.

Examples:

• 0.010 credit ≈ 1 cent
• 0.056 credit ≈ 5.6 cents
• 1 credit ≈ $1

You can always check your credit balance and view detailed usage in Daily Expenses or All Expenses, located under your profile (bottom left corner of the screen). Also, the History screen (available in the left menu) includes details about spent credits for specific conversations as well.

What Is an Interaction?

An interaction in FlowHunt is counted every time you run a Flow, which may involve sending a chat message to a chatbot or triggering an AI automation workflow. Both basic and complex tasks are counted as a single interaction, but the credits consumed per interaction vary based on the complexity of the query or task.

How Are Credits and Interactions Connected?

• Each interaction consumes a certain amount of credits.
• Basic interaction: A simple chatbot message (such as “Hello”) can cost as little as 0.00024 credit (a tiny fraction of a cent).
• Complex interaction: Running a multi-step workflow, processing large documents, or using advanced AI models can cost up to a full credit or more per interaction.

Key takeaway: The number of interactions your credit balance can afford you depends entirely on the complexity of your workflows and the AI models involved. For some users, one credit may result in 100+ interactions; for others, it may be just a few.

Does Complexity Affect Credit Usage?

Yes. The more complex the task (e.g., multi-step workflows, large-scale data processing, or utilizing higher-tier AI models), the more credits are consumed per interaction. Complexity factors include:

• The number and type of AI model calls (some models are more expensive)
• Volume of content processed (number of tokens/words/images)
• Additional automations within a Flow

Example:

• Crawling a single URL for knowledge base training: 0.01 credit (1 cent)
• Crawling a large website (100+ pages): Over 1 credit
• Generating 1,500–2,000 words of content: 0.05–0.15 credit (5–15 cents)

What Does “Up to XY Interactions” Mean?

Each plan lists an “up to X interactions” number, which is just a rough estimate based on the average usage per interaction, which is approximately 0.01 credit (1 cent). This figure is based on real data and takes into account both simple chat messages and complex multi-step workflows:

• Starter: 10 credits, up to 1,000 interactions
• Pro: 50 credits, up to 5,000 interactions
• Premium: 500 credits, up to 50,000 interactions

Important:

• The actual number of interactions you get depends on how complex your tasks are.
• A basic chatbot response is the cheapest case (usually small fractions of a credit, amounting to less than a single cent).
• Advanced multi-step Flows or large automations may cost close to or even more than a dollar (1 credit).

What Happens If I Don’t Use All My Credits?

Credits included in your monthly subscription plan reset at the start of each new billing period and do not carry over to the next month. Meaning that if you have a Starter subscription with 10 credits and only use 5 credits in one month, your balance will reset to 10 credits at the beginning of your next billing cycle.

Why don’t credits roll over? When you subscribe to FlowHunt, you are not just purchasing credits; you are getting access to FlowHunt’s features. Credits are a way to track your usage within each billing cycle.

Note: If you unexpectedly need more credits above your subscription plan, you can purchase an additional one-off credit pack ($20 / $100 / $800), and those credits do carry over to the next period.

Monthly vs Yearly Subscriptions

FlowHunt offers both monthly and yearly subscription options:

• Monthly: Pay the standard monthly rate.
• Yearly: Get a discount—pay for 12 months upfront:
  • Starter: €10/month or €9/month if billed yearly
  • Pro: €50/month or €46/month if billed yearly
  • Premium: €500/month or €458/month if billed yearly

You can select monthly or yearly billing when subscribing. Annual plans are billed as a single upfront payment.

Free Trial

• All new users receive a 7-day free trial (with a limit of 5 credits).
• It’s not possible to add credit to a trial account; however, you can upgrade to our Starter plan for just $10/month and cancel anytime.

Payment Methods

FlowHunt subscriptions and credit packs are processed via Stripe. Currently, credit cards are the only supported payment method. Stripe allows you to use all major credit cards and some popular digital wallets (where available).

Managing Your Subscription

• You can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel your plan at any time from the “Subscription” section, which you can access via your profile in the bottom left corner of the screen.

How to Optimize Your FlowHunt Usage

• Monitor your credit usage regularly in the Daily Expenses section to stay on top of your budget.
• Use the default (the latest standard OpenAI model) AI model for most tasks, as it is cost-effective and reliable.
• Reserve advanced (and more expensive) models (such as Claude Opus models) for the complex or critical flows where great performance is needed.
• For simple or repetitive flows, consider using a more affordable AI model (e.g. older models, such as ChatGPT 3.5, or Claude Haiku 3) to optimize costs further.
• Minimize unnecessary complexity in your Flows wherever possible. Streamlined flows are not only faster but also reduce processing costs.
• Schedule extensive data crawls thoughtfully to avoid unnecessary costs.

Calculating Typical Cost Examples

Here’s a specific cost example to help you estimate your future FlowHunt expenses, based on real-world usage:

Example: Small E-commerce Site Chatbot

• Initial website crawling for chatbot training:
  You want to give your chatbot the necessary information to make sure it’s responses are relevant and up to date. The best way to do this is to have FlowHunt crawl your website. Suppose your website has 300 pages. Crawling each page costs 0.01 credit (1 cent), so the initial crawl would be:
  300 pages x 0.01 credit = 3 credits (≈ $3 or €3)
• Monthly chatbot usage:
  According to statistics from Wix, the average small e-commerce website gets 1 000 - 10 000 monthly visits. Let’s say your site receives 5,000 visitors per month. Approximately 15% of them are likely engage with the chatbot, that’s 750 chatbot sessions per month. With a global average of 4 queries per session, you’ll have about 3,000 queries monthly.
  If each query costs 0.01 credit (1 cent, using a higher estimate for safety), your monthly chatbot usage would be:
  3,000 queries x 0.01 credit = 30 credits (≈ $30 or €30 per month)

At $30 to $35 per month, the Pro plan is the best choice for this use case.

Example: Simple Content Generation Workflow

Let’s say you want to populate your blog with 3 simple blog posts a week, and you want to generate one image for each of these post. This calculation accounts for simple workflows using mid-range AI models. Remember that your credit usage may differ based on the AI models and additional components you elect to use.

Creating a 1,500–2,000 word blog post with a mid-range model typically costs 0.05–0.15 credit (5–15 cents). This figure accounts for using a retriever component or real-time internet search to inform the content.

For three posts per week:
3 posts x 4 weeks x 0.15 credit (upper limit) = 1.8 credits (≈ $1.80 or €1.80 per month)

The pricing of image generation models varies greatly. However, you’re unlikely to pay more than 0.5 credits for one image. In fact, simpler and faster models may produce as much as 4 images at 0.2 credits.

Generating one image per blog post: 3 images x 4 weeks x 0.5 credit (upper limit) = 6 credits (= $6 per month)

For this use case, the starter plan may just be be enough for simple workflows with conservative AI model choices. If you plan on heavier usage or require the highest quality of output, the Pro plan is the way to go.

Summary Table: Example Scenario

Most customer queries, no matter how complicated, are unlikely to cost more than 2 cents; most are around half a cent. For safety in planning, the examples above use a rate of 1 cent per query. Most simple content generation workflows will cost around 10 cents per 1-2K words. For safety in planning, the examples above use a rate of 15 cents per article. The cost per one generated image varies greatly based on the model choice and number of steps. The example above uses a high estimate.

Tip: You can continuously monitor your real usage and costs under “Daily Expenses” and “All Expenses” in your FlowHunt dashboard.

Summary Table

Additional One-off credits:

• AI Studio One-off Starter Pack: €20
• AI Studio One-off Pro Pack: €100
• AI Studio One-off Premium Pack: €800

FlowHunt’s credit system is designed for flexibility and transparency, allowing you to scale usage to meet your needs, whether you’re running a simple chatbot or building complex AI automations.

For more details, visit FlowHunt Pricing or Credits Explained.