How to Manage Make.com Credits Per Team

Managing credits in make.com at the team level helps you control automation costs, prevent overages, and keep every workspace aligned with your organization’s budget and policies.

This step-by-step guide explains how team credits work, how they differ from workspace credits, and how to configure limits and safeguards so your automations run smoothly without surprises.

Understanding Make.com Credits and Team Structure

Before adjusting any settings, you need to understand how credits are consumed and where they are managed within make.com.

What are credits in make.com?

Credits represent the execution capacity for your scenarios and automations. Each module run, operation, or data transfer typically consumes credits based on its complexity and volume.

Higher-volume or more complex scenarios may consume more credits, so having a clear strategy for tracking credits per team is essential.

Teams vs. workspaces in make.com

In make.com, your organization is typically structured into:

• Organization / account level – Where the subscription and total credit pool are managed.
• Teams – Logical groupings of users and workspaces under a shared plan.
• Workspaces – Project-level environments where scenarios, connections, and data stores live.

Credit management per team allows you to distribute your overall subscription credits across multiple teams, preventing one group from using more than its intended share.

Access Requirements for Make.com Credit Management

Only users with the appropriate role can configure how credits are allocated and limited inside make.com.

Who can manage team credits in make.com?

Typically, the following roles can review and adjust team-level credit settings:

• Account owners – Full control over subscription and credits.
• Admins or team admins – Management rights within specific teams.

If you cannot see credit options, you may need to request elevated permissions from your main administrator or owner.

How to Open the Make.com Team Management Screen

Team-level credit configuration starts in the administration area of make.com. Use the following navigation steps to reach the right screen.

1. Sign in to your make.com account with an owner or admin-level user.
2. Open the main navigation menu and locate the Teams or Administration section (name may vary depending on UI updates).
3. Select the specific team whose credit usage you want to manage.
4. Open the team Settings or Plan & Credits tab to access credit controls.

Once there, you will see the team’s current credit usage, limits, and any allocation rules that may already be in place.

Setting Credit Limits Per Team in Make.com

Setting limits ensures each team can use only a predefined portion of the total credits available under your subscription.

Configure a maximum credit allocation

1. In the team’s settings area, locate the section labeled Credits or Usage limits.
2. Find the field where you can specify the maximum credits the team can consume for the current billing period.
3. Enter a value that reflects your budget and the expected automation volume for that team.
4. Save your changes to apply the new credit limit.

When the team reaches this limit, make.com will typically prevent further execution of scenarios owned by that team until credits are renewed or the limit is adjusted.

Distributing credits between multiple teams

If your subscription provides a shared pool of credits, you can distribute them across teams so each group has a defined share. For example:

• Team A – 40% of total monthly credits
• Team B – 30% of total monthly credits
• Team C – 30% of total monthly credits

Align these allocations with project priorities, expected traffic, and the complexity of integrations handled by each team.

Managing Workspace-Level Usage Within a Make.com Team

Some teams contain multiple workspaces that serve different departments, clients, or projects. You may need to control how each workspace uses the team’s credit allowance.

How workspace usage affects team credits in make.com

All workspaces under a team commonly draw from the same team-level credit pool. When a workspace runs scenarios, credits are deducted from that shared allocation.

This means an intensive workspace can impact the whole team if you do not apply additional controls.

Optional workspace-level rules

Depending on your plan and UI options, you may be able to:

• Set internal guidelines for how many credits a workspace should aim to use.
• Tag or name workspaces by priority to identify core and non-core uses.
• Periodically review workspace-specific reports (if available in your interface) to rebalance workloads.

Even when fine-grained workspace limits are not available, regular monitoring within make.com helps keep team consumption aligned with expectations.

Monitoring Credit Usage in Make.com

Ongoing monitoring is key to preventing downtime and unpleasant billing surprises.

Check team usage indicators

On the team’s plan or credit page, you will typically find:

• Total credits allocated to the team.
• Credits used in the current billing cycle.
• Remaining credits until renewal.

Use these indicators to quickly evaluate whether your current limit is realistic or needs adjustment.

Use alerts and notifications in make.com

If available in your plan, configure alerts for when credit usage passes certain thresholds, such as:

• 50% of allocated credits used
• 80% of allocated credits used
• Approaching the maximum limit

These notifications give admins time to optimize scenarios, temporarily pause non-essential automations, or increase limits before execution is blocked.

Best Practices for Make.com Credit Optimization

Good configuration is only part of the picture. To control team costs effectively, combine smart limits with continuous optimization of your automations.

Review scenarios that consume the most credits

Work with scenario owners to identify high-volume or high-frequency automations and consider:

• Reducing trigger frequency where real-time execution is not required.
• Batching operations to reduce the number of runs.
• Filtering records earlier in the flow to avoid unnecessary module executions.

These steps can substantially lower credit usage while preserving outcomes.

Align make.com teams with budgeting

To keep finance and operations aligned:

• Map each team in make.com to a cost center or department.
• Set limits that reflect each group’s budget and business value.
• Review usage with stakeholders at least once per billing cycle.

This makes it easier to justify higher limits for critical teams and set tighter controls on experimental or low-priority initiatives.

Troubleshooting Common Make.com Team Credit Issues

Even with well-configured limits, you may encounter issues that affect execution.

Scenarios stop due to insufficient credits

If a team hits its credit cap, you may see failed runs or paused scenarios. To resolve this:

1. Open the team’s credit management area in make.com.
2. Confirm that the limit has been reached.
3. Either increase the team limit (if subscription capacity allows) or wait for the next billing cycle.
4. Temporarily pause non-essential scenarios to protect mission-critical flows.

Unexpectedly high credit usage

When usage spikes unexpectedly:

• Check for newly created or modified scenarios.
• Review logs or run histories to find loops or misconfigured triggers.
• Communicate with scenario owners to ensure recent changes were intentional.

Making small adjustments to trigger conditions and filters can dramatically reduce unnecessary runs.

Additional Resources for Make.com Administrators

To deepen your understanding of the platform’s credit model and latest features, review the official documentation from the source:

Official make.com credits per team management guide

If you need expert help designing automation architectures, optimizing credit usage, or building complex workflows, you can work with a dedicated automation consultant. For example, you can explore services at Consultevo for strategic implementation support.

Summary: Control Make.com Credits at the Team Level

By configuring limits, monitoring consumption, and optimizing high-usage scenarios, you can keep make.com credits under control for every team. Use the team settings to allocate a fair share of your subscription, set clear thresholds, and protect mission-critical automations from unexpected interruptions.

Regular reviews and coordination between admins, finance, and scenario owners ensure that your teams get the most value from make.com while staying within planned budgets.

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