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Hi all - pricing question - do child tasks in mapped task count as task runs? or does this apply to only the parent task?

yes, but only if they are successful and run for longer than 1 second (anyone correct me if I’m wrong)

Each mapped task is a first class task because we charge for observability and state handling and each of those mapped tasks gets those

If you find that you are mapping over a very large number of items and it’s really expensive, you can maybe use Python functions instead of tasks in some places if the operations are guaranteed to succeed. You can also use a `DataFrame` in a lot of places instead of `map`.

I don’t know if you are in touch with sales as well but you can get volume discounts