# What are all the ways that take up uses in Glide? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [June 9, 2025, 10:30am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-are-all-the-ways-that-take-up-uses-in-glide/82338 "2025-06-09T10:30:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MattGlides](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@MattGlides](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattGlides)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 10:30am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-are-all-the-ways-that-take-up-uses-in-glide/82338/1 "2025-06-09T10:30:39Z")
Or where can I find documentation, because for example an email tells me it’s taking one use. However adding a row does not say that. Does adding a row to bigtables take a use, while to a normal table it doesn’t? Does setting column values take a use? Etc, I cannot seem to find actual documentation of this. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 10:47am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-are-all-the-ways-that-take-up-uses-in-glide/82338/2 "2025-06-09T10:47:28Z")
> **[Updates | Glide Docs](https://www.glideapps.com/docs/reference/account/updates)** > > An explanation of updates and how they relate to billing. Some of the information in that document isn’t 100% up to date, so it probably needs updating. Some general (current) principles: - Changing data in external data sources consumes updates - Most integrations consume updates (but will tell you if they do) - AI columns/actions generally consume updates - Using the API will consume updates (1 per mutation) - Changing data in native Glide tables will consume updates if you are on a legacy plan - Syncing with external data sources will consume updates - Workflows will consume updates where data is being changed (it’s easy to identify where workflows are consuming updates, because nodes that trigger updates will be marked). Below is an example of a workflow run that I have marked up to show where updates were incurred. Even though there is quite a bit of looping and whatnot going on, in this example just a single update would have been consumed. ![CleanShot 2025-06-09 at 18.42.18@2x](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/6/1/61ed5470b88e401fbe95fd9c3c5d0ed9a107e9f7.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![MattGlides](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@MattGlides](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattGlides)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-are-all-the-ways-that-take-up-uses-in-glide/82338/3 "2025-06-09T11:25:19Z")
Okay so that’s what confuses me, that documentation you linked states multiple times that adding/editing/deleting rows in big tables takes up no uses. However I’m sure they did? We are not on a legacy plan, the latest business plan. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/9/f/9f82123b592d8b356c47843118231bf0c52138e6.png) Would any of these take up uses? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 11:31am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-are-all-the-ways-that-take-up-uses-in-glide/82338/4 "2025-06-09T11:31:44Z")
Just based on that screenshot, I would say no. Anything in a workflow that would trigger an update will be marked with that small lightning emoji, as per my previous screen shot. I’m guessing that is a workflow that’s triggered by a user interaction? If is was a server side workflow, then each of those Add Row and Set Column value steps would trigger updates. ---
**Author:** ![MattGlides](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@MattGlides](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattGlides)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-are-all-the-ways-that-take-up-uses-in-glide/82338/5 "2025-06-09T11:32:33Z")
Correct, thank you so much for the clarification! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-are-all-the-ways-that-take-up-uses-in-glide/82338/6 "2025-06-16T11:32:59Z")
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