Some Workflows license plans (such as the Workflows Starter Plan) are capped at a specific number of steps, as documented in the Workflows. For the Starter Plan, this started being enforced beginning April 2026.  This article will help define what a "step" is.

• Okta Workflows
• Flow Execution
• Steps

A “step” execution is the most granular unit of work tracked in the course of any automated action performed in Workflows (for example, calling any function or connector method).

Okta aggregates summaries of steps executed by function/connector card execution or flow execution.

As a general rule, however, nearly all Function cards should consistently execute with a single (1) step, while Connector cards will typically execute multiple steps behind the scenes and vary depending on both the complexity of the connector and potentially the size and complexity of input data passed in.