Workday prices AI in credits per action and never in dollars. Put your numbers in and find out what that means for your year.
Material exposure. This needs an owner and a forecast before the allotment resets.
Opens your own mail client with the numbers filled in, addressed to me. Nothing is collected from this page and there is no list to join. Still no signup.
Adoption is ramped linearly over six months rather than assumed to start at full volume, because it never does. Platform entitlements such as API calls and document storage are excluded here and will add to your real number.
Credit rates and allotment tiers are third-party reported. The Flex Credits Rate Card is not publicly available, which is itself part of the problem, and it is why the credit price is yours to enter rather than mine to assert.
This is an estimate to tell you whether you have a problem worth looking at. It is not a forecast you should take to your CFO.
Rate data current as of 16 September 2026. Workday can update Product Terms on thirty days notice, so this page is dated deliberately. If you are reading it much later than that date, ask me for the current figures.
It includes platform entitlements, stress-tests your volumes at 1.5x, 2x and 3x, models the burn month by month rather than annually, and maps consumption to cost centres through your worktag structure so the cost lands where the benefit does.
From you. Workday does not publish the Flex Credits Rate Card, so any dollar figure I put in front of you would be invented. The default here is an illustrative placeholder. If you are already under an Order Form, your contracted rate is in it, and that is the number to use.
Because nobody switches on an agent and hits steady-state volume in month one. A six-month linear ramp is deliberately conservative. If your rollout is faster, your exhaustion month arrives earlier than this shows.
Nothing visible. Exceeding your entitlement does not deactivate the agents, so there is no automatic ceiling. Consumption reporting refreshes on a daily cycle rather than in real time, which means the first clear signal is often the invoice.
No, and the difference matters. Full Service Equivalent is a billing metric that counts certain worker populations differently from a simple head count, and it commonly runs above it. Using headcount here will understate your tier and your burn.
Not as it stands. This is a triage tool, built to tell you whether you have an exposure worth spending real effort on. It excludes platform entitlements such as API calls and document storage, and it does not stress-test your volumes. A number that goes into a budget needs both.