# "Updates" consumption, how to limit them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [March 11, 2025, 8:22am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/updates-consumption-how-to-limit-them/80631 "2025-03-11T08:22:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CNeervig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@CNeervig](https://community.glideapps.com/u/CNeervig)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 8:22am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/updates-consumption-how-to-limit-them/80631/1 "2025-03-11T08:22:20Z")
I’m currently using Knack and [Make.com](http://Make.com) as my no-code stack in our company. I would like to move away from Knack for various reasons. I’ve tested different no-code platforms, and Glide is by far the best one I’ve tried. However, there is one caveat: “Updates”. Each night, I have an automation in Make that updates all our customers’ products. Let’s say we have 15 customers, each with 10 products—15 x 10 = 150 updates per run, just for that workflow. I also have other workflows running as well. I will exceed the 5,000 updates (Business plan) limit multiple times, which makes it very expensive for us to move to Glide. Are there any good solutions for limiting the use of “Updates”? How do you optimize your workflows to reduce the number of consumed updates? I would really like to find a good solution so we can use Glide, but based on my current understanding of how Glide works, it would be a very costly solution for us. ---
**Author:** ![MaximeBaker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maximebaker/32/80877_2.png) [@MaximeBaker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaximeBaker)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/updates-consumption-how-to-limit-them/80631/2 "2025-03-11T12:42:39Z")
There are multiple ways to reduce updates consumption. What would you want to do in these workflows ? ---
**Author:** ![CNeervig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@CNeervig](https://community.glideapps.com/u/CNeervig)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/updates-consumption-how-to-limit-them/80631/3 "2025-03-11T19:19:46Z")
@MaximeBaker loop through each customer in the glide database \> connect to external api and get a list of all their products with the qty \> loop through each customers products in the glide databse and update the qty in the glide database with the qty grabbed from the external api ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/updates-consumption-how-to-limit-them/80631/5 "2025-03-12T00:41:28Z")
If there’s a way you can use Glide Big Tables for your products table, I would do it like this: - Have a list of customer IDs, or any way you can identify those customers. - Every day, query your external db using that list, so it returns a list for products related to all customers. - Use Glide’s [Stashing API](https://apidocs.glideapps.com/api-reference/v2/stashing/put-stashes-serial) to replace the Products table with the newly grabbed list of products. It will reduce your updates consume a whole lot. ---
**Author:** ![CNeervig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@CNeervig](https://community.glideapps.com/u/CNeervig)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 7:17am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/updates-consumption-how-to-limit-them/80631/6 "2025-03-12T07:17:57Z")
Sounds like an excellent idea 🙂 But Big Tables is only for enterprise subscriptions, right? ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 7:32am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/updates-consumption-how-to-limit-them/80631/7 "2025-03-12T07:32:33Z")
It’s available on any newest plans I believe. ![CleanShot 2025-03-12 at 14.32.13](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/0/4/0472c9db9ba346be5e4a9709bab2dca98a95cbaa.png) ---
**Author:** ![CNeervig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@CNeervig](https://community.glideapps.com/u/CNeervig)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 7:57am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/updates-consumption-how-to-limit-them/80631/8 "2025-03-12T07:57:29Z")
Ah, I missed that one 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/updates-consumption-how-to-limit-them/80631/9 "2025-03-12T23:57:29Z")
Can confirm, I created a new team and can add Big Tables on Free. However, you must be on at least Maker to use the Glide API via Make, I believe. On all plans higher than Maker, you can call the API anywhere.