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. Every figure above is worked out inside your browser and never leaves it.
Every figure above rests on rates and allotment tiers that Workday can revise without announcing it, and on a rate card that is not public. When something material moves, the forecast you just ran stops being true.
One short email when something material moves: a published rate, an allotment tier, a reset date, or one of the tenant checks. Nothing else.
Optional, and it has nothing to do with running the calculator. The tool above stays free and ungated whether you give me an address or not.
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 ask me for current figures if you are reading this much later.
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 the default here is an illustrative placeholder. If you are 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. The six-month linear ramp is deliberately conservative, so a faster rollout exhausts the allotment 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 counts certain worker populations differently from head count and commonly runs above it, so using headcount understates your tier and your burn.
Not as it stands. This is triage: it excludes platform entitlements such as API calls and document storage and does not stress-test your volumes, and a budget number needs both.