In Make, credits and operations are related but distinct concepts. Operations count the activities performed in your scenarios, while credits are what you pay for those activities. Understanding both helps you better manage your Make usage. 

Learn more about credit and operations in these articles:

Understand how credits work in Make, how different features consume them, and how to monitor your usage

Learn what operations are, how modules process data through bundles, and how to view them for debugging and optimization

Credits

Operations

Understand the credit cost of different Make features and modules based on their type and function

Learn where to track your credit usage and monitor consumption across scenarios, modules, and individual runs

How features use credits

How to track credits

Learn what credits and operations are, how different features use credits, and how to monitor your usage

Credits & operations

Connect an application

Schedule a scenario

Active and inactive scenarios

Scenario execution flow

Scenario history

Scenario blueprints

Scenario templates

Scenario sharing

Scenarios & connections

Introduction to Make apps

Types of modules

Module settings

Update legacy modules with new modules

Webhooks

Select the first bundle to process

Apps & modules

Item data types

Type coercion

Mapping

Filtering

Mapping arrays

Working with files

Data & mapping

Aggregator

Iterator

Router

Tools

Keyboard shortcuts

Resources

Key concepts

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An operation is a single module run to process data or check for new data. 

Credits (formerly operations) are the currency for running scenarios.

A route is a path that data can flow through in a scenario, visualized as the dotted lines between modules.

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Step 7. Add another module

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Step 9. Test your scenario

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Create your first scenario

Step 1. Get your app ready

Step 2. Add a router

Step 3. Set up another module

Step 4. Add a filter

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Step 6. Add an aggregator

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Scenario execution, cycles, and phases

Restore a previous scenario version

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Call Google APIs with OAuth 2.0 HTTP request

Connect to any web service using OAuth 2.0

Connect to Google services using a custom OAuth client

Replace connections across multiple modules

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On-premise agent

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Keys and certificates

Allow connections to and from Make IP addresses

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Tokens for date/time parsing

Tokens for date/time formatting

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Introduction to AI agents

Manage AI agents

Module tools for AI agents

Scenarios for AI agents

MCP tools for AI agents

Tools for AI agents

AI agent best practices

AI Agents configuration

Make AI Agents app

Step 1. Set up the AI agent

Step 2. Create the AI agent's tools

Step 3. Create a scenario to send tasks to the AI agent

AI agent use case

Make AI Agents

Introduction to Make MCP server

Get started with Make MCP server

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Introduction to Make Grid

Access Make Grid

Explore Make Grid GUI

How to use Make Grid

Tutorial: How to replace a dependency

Best practices to use Make Grid

Make Grid

Introduction to errors and warnings

Overview of error handling

Fixing rate limit errors

Fixing connection errors

Fixing missing data errors

How to handle errors

Quick error handling reference

Break error handler

Commit error handler

Ignore error handler

Resume error handler

Rollback error handler

Error handlers

Types of errors

Types of warnings

Exponential backoff

Throw

Error handling

Organizations

Teams

Organizations & teams

Change your subscription

Cancel your subscription

Extra credits

Monthly and annual subscriptions

Change payment details

Coupons

Upgrade to the Enterprise plan

Request sales tax exemption

Subscription

Analytics dashboard

Credits per team management

Delete user data

Set the length of your session timeout

Audit logs

Feature controls

Administration

Single Sign-on

Google SAML

MS Azure AD OIDC

MS Azure AD SAML

Okta SAML

SAML certificate management

Domain claim

Access management

Make Managed Services (MMS) user guide

Make Managed Services (MMS)

Your organization

Change your email address

Manage your email preferences

Delete your profile

Manage time zones

API key

Two-factor authentication

Profile settings

Affiliate program

NGO program

Make programs

Your profile