Hello, I'm trying to better understand the pricing/usage model. We have an ETL job that needs to make ~10k API calls to 2 different endpoints so ~20k calls total. We use Prefect's map and LocalDaskExecutor to utilize parallelization. However, if my understanding is correct, a single flow run counts as ~20k task runs and cost either

20,000 * 0.0025 = $50

or

20,000 * 0.005 = $100

depending on the plan you're on?

Hi @Carter Kwon - the new pricing model is per successful task run. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "a single flow run counts as -20K task runs" but it sounds like you're asking about a flow that may have 20k mapped tasks?

You're correct. That single flow has 20k mapped runs tasks. Assuming each mapped task is successful, does running that entire flow once count as 20k successful task runs?

I think your terminology is correct. Mapped tasks runs will count as task runs. But (sorry more terminology for you!) for billing we only count task runs that last for longer than one second and that end in a

Success

state.

Got it. It looks like the majority of these task runs are taking > 1 second so it sounds like we might have to avoid .map for this flow unfortunately. This needs to run daily so that would add up quickly. Thanks for the info.

No worries - highly recommend the pricing calculator and the Qs section on the pricing page of the website. But let us know if you have any other questions!

I used that to get my cost calculations. I just wanted to verify I was correct.