What counts as one execution?
One attempt to call your target URL. Retries count as separate executions — one credit each, no hidden multipliers. $1 buys 100,000 executions, and the free tier refreshes 100,000 every day at UTC midnight.
What are the delivery guarantees?
At-least-once. Every call carries a stable X-Fliq-Delivery-Id header that survives retries and crash recovery, so your endpoint can deduplicate safely. Buffers additionally guarantee strict submission order with one item in flight at a time.
What happens if a worker crashes mid-job?
Workers heartbeat every 10 seconds while executing. A reaper process detects the silence within about 30 seconds, rescues the orphaned job, and retries it with the same delivery ID. Nothing is lost and nothing fires twice without you being able to detect it.
How do buffers handle a 429 from my target?
Fliq honors the Retry-After header and waits exactly as long as the API asked — without burning the item’s retry budget and without breaking submission order. Successors wait their turn; nothing is reordered or dropped.
Can my endpoint verify a request really came from Fliq?
Yes. Enable request signing and every outbound call includes X-Fliq-Timestamp and X-Fliq-Signature headers — an HMAC-SHA256 over the timestamp, method, URL, and body. Rotate the secret any time via the API.
Is Fliq open source?
Yes — the Go backend and the dashboard are open source at github.com/fliq-sh. Fliq is free during the beta: 100,000 executions a day, no card required.
Can AI agents use Fliq?
Yes. Fliq ships an MCP server, so agents can schedule jobs and rate-limit their own outbound API calls in natural language — useful for agents that talk to Stripe, Shopify, or LLM providers without tripping rate limits.