AI Units

Overview

AI Units is the measure used to license AI products. AI Units are charged based on consumption when the models are bringing value to you.

For more general information on AI units consumption for our AI products, check out the Metering and charging logic and License tracking sections below.

Fore specific details on AI units consumption for Process Mining, check out the License page in the Process Mining guide.

You can also allocate and track AI units consumption at tenant level. See the tenant-level allocation pages for more details:

Automation Cloud^TM - Automation Cloud - Allocating licenses to tenants
Automation Suite - Automation Suite - Allocating robot and service licenses to tenants

Note: By default, each tenant is allocated 0 AI units, and all AI units are consumed from the account pool. If there are no AI units allocated to the tenant, AI units are consumed from the organization account pool. In case all AI Units are consumed from the tenant pool, then the admin needs to allocate more on that specific tenant.

Metering and charging logic

This page includes specific information regarding to AI units depending on the used activity, covering the cost for every AI product. Two variables are considered when computing AI units:

Input size
Model used

Note: The formula to calculate the consumption is as follows: input size x unit cost of the model.

For example, the consumption for the UiPath Custom Named Entity Recognition model with an input size of 5000 characters is:

5000 characters = 3 units

Consumption: 3 units x 0.5 (unit cost) = 1.5 AI Units

Input size

Table 1. Input size
Model	Input type	Input size	Computed input size
Document Understanding^TM models	Document	1 page	Number of pages in the input document
AI Computer Vision	Image	1 image	Always 1
Task Mining	Dataset	1 dataset	Always 1
Other models	JSON	2000 characters = 1 unit	Ceil(length(input)/2000)
	File	5 MB = 1 unit	Ceil(size/5MB)
	Files	5 MB = 1 unit	Ceil(sum(size(input))/5MB)

Model used

Table 2. Model used
Model	When we charge	Unit cost
Document Understanding models	Per prediction	For a list of all models, check the Metering and Charging Logic page from the Document Understanding guide
Computer Vision	Per prediction	0
Task Mining	Per successful pipeline	5000
UiPath Light Text Classification	Per prediction	0.2
UiPath Multilingual Text Classification	Per prediction	0.5
UiPath Custom Named Entity Recognition	Per prediction	0.5
Open Source packages	Per prediction	0.1
Custom packages (uploading your own zip file)	Per prediction	0.1

Note: Except for Task Mining, running a pipeline or deploying an ML Skill does not consume AI Units and does not require additional licenses.

License tracking

Legacy licenses, such as AI Robots, GPU, or Task Mining will still be displayed, although they are not consumed.

Scenario	API Key	License management	Where to track your consumption
Enterprise on-premises deployed on Automation Suite connected to an external standalone Orchestrator (AI Center standalone)	The API Key found under Licenses for your AI Center cloud account	API Key is required during AI Center installation and can be changed through ArgoCD if needed	Home>License Usage>Other Services>AI Units (requires Automation Cloud™ account, see note below)
Enterprise on-premises offline deployed on Automation Suite connected to an external standalone Orchestrator (AI Center standalone)	N/A	License needs to be added to UiPath Orchestrator and distributed at tenant level	Tenant>License tab>UiPath Document Understanding card
Enterprise on-premises deployed on Automation Suite	The API Key found under Licenses for your Document Understanding Automation Suite account	License needs to be activated after Automation Suite installation	Home>License Usage>Other Services>AI Units
Enterprise on-premises offline deployed on Automation Suite	The API Key found under Licenses for your Document Understanding Automation Suite account	License needs to be activated after Automation Suite installation	Home>License Usage>Other Services>AI Units

Note: If you are using AI Center connected to an external standalone Orchestrator, an Automation Cloud account is needed during installation. The API key is found in Automation Cloud under Home > License Usage > Other Services > AI Units.