For a high-level overview of usage in your workspace, including consumption of cloud runs and test authoring activity, check out the usage page: Settings > Usage. This article explains key concepts for reviewing the usage page.
mabl Core plans only
This article outlines the usage page for organizations that purchased a mabl Core plan. If your organization purchased a legacy pricing plan (startup, growth, or enterprise), the usage page shows separate charts with cumulative and predicted usage by each test type, which may include browser, API, accessibility, and performance.
If your team works in multiple workspaces, you can request access to a company dashboard to review usage across all workspaces in your account.
Credits
All workspaces are allocated a certain amount of credits for running tests. The usage page in the mabl app - Settings > Usage - displays the total number of credits used along with the total number allocated for your workspace.
Calculating credit consumption
Credit consumption in mabl is a reflection of the amount of resources a test run consumes. The following table defines how many credits are consumed for different test types:
| Type of run | Credits consumed |
|---|---|
| Local mabl runs | 0 credits |
| mabl runs in your CI environment | 0 credits |
| Browser cloud run - desktop or mobile web |
Without GenAI Assertions: 1 credit With GenAI Assertions: 1.5 credits* |
| Mobile cloud run |
Without GenAI Assertions: 5 credits With GenAI Assertions: 5.5 credits* |
| API cloud run | 0.1 credit |
| Visual test run | 1 credit |
| Performance run |
Credit consumption is based on duration, which is rounded up to the nearest 15-minute increment:
To determine the number of credits consumed, multiply the number of billable VUH shown on the test output page by 4. Billable VUH represents the total number of billable virtual user hours (VUH), billed in 15 minute increments. |
| Local Playwright runs |
Without GenAI Assertions: 0 credits With GenAI Assertions: 0.5 credits for every 6 GenAI Assertions. Credit consumption is calculated on a daily basis and rounded up to the nearest half-credit increment. |
*Starting August 18, 2025, GenAI Assertions will consume credits at a rate of 0.5 credits per 6 GenAI Assertions contained in the test, rounded up to the nearest 0.5 credit. For example, a browser test with 16 GenAI Assertions will consume 2.5 credits when run in the cloud: 1 credit for the cloud run and 1.5 additional credits for the GenAI Assertions.
Mobile cloud training doesn't consume credits
Although mobile cloud training sessions use cloud resources, they are not test executions and do not consume credits.
Workspace users
The usage page tracks test authoring activity by user and organizes users into two groups:
- Automators: users with at least 30 test authoring activities during a given month.
- Participants: all other users added to your mabl account with 0-29 test authoring activities for the month.
Test authoring activities
Test authoring activities include the following:
- Creating a new test
- Saving a new version of an existing test
- Duplicating a test
- Deleting a test
- Restoring a deleted test from the activity feed
Test authoring activities do not include any changes to the following:
- Test metadata, including name, description, labels, device settings, DataTables, shared variables, and test case IDs
- Applications
- Environments
- Credentials
- Branches
- File uploads
- Flows
- Plans
- Snippets
- Permanent email addresses
- DataTables
Allocating users
The usage page also shows the number of automators and participants allocated to the account. For example, this workspace is part of an account that is allocated nine automators and 45 participants.
Measuring workspace user activity
In mabl, you can invite an unlimited number of users to your workspace. Exceeding the allocated number of users does not prevent you from inviting new users.
Similarly, if your workspace exceeds the total number of allocated automators for your account, mabl will not prevent participants from becoming automators over the course of the month.
If you expect that your workspace will have significantly more users than listed for your account, we recommend reaching out to your mabl customer success manager (CSM) on next steps.
Usage measurement
Depending on the type of contract that your company purchased, credits are allocated on an annual or monthly basis. You can find your account's usage measurement and contract duration in the Workspace users section.
Unused credits at the end of the configured billing period do not roll over to the next period.