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Public story · 2026-07-13 · high
A contract redline runs 500 credits versus 6 for a résumé check, a rate card Workday hasn't published in full, per CIO.
Why now: Coverage of Workday's Flex Credits pricing, including the résumé-to-redline comparison, surfaced July 13, before Workday has published a full rate card.
Workday priced agent labor by the task, charging roughly 6 credits to screen a résumé and 500 to redline a contract, per CIO. The gap between those numbers, 83 times, is Workday's own estimate of how much harder a contract redline is than a résumé check. It's a template for how incumbent vendors meter agent work inside an existing enterprise contract.
Flex Credits span 1 to 750 per task, and lead sourcing runs about 750, per CIO's review of the model. Workday hasn't published a full rate card yet, so the résumé and redline numbers are the clearest data points available for how the pricing works.
Nobody outside Workday has checked whether these numbers track real compute cost. More likely, the spread is a sales number: price the tasks buyers already value at a premium, and the agent looks worth paying for. That's true regardless of what running it actually costs. Watch for whether Workday publishes the rest of the rate card, and whether the ratios hold once buyers can see the whole list.
Coverage of the pricing model landed July 13, ahead of that full rate card.
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