May 2025

Creating indexes is moving from the AI Trust Layer to Orchestrator, allowing permissioned automation developers to create indexes directly within the Orchestrator interface. This change streamlines workflows, improves index monitoring, and optimizes resource utilization.

In Orchestrator you can leverage the index management capabilities and have a centralized point for management and monitoring at the tenant level. You can track query performance over specified time intervals, analyze index usage trends, and view a complete list of all indexes created within the tenant. This comprehensive overview facilitates easier management and allows for targeted optimization of individual indexes.

The Context Grounding tab in AI Trust Layer will remain available temporarily. Its sole purpose now is to redirect you to the new Orchestrator index creation experience. The tab will be phased out entirely in an upcoming update.

That's not all! You can also add Context Grounding indexes as components to Solutions. The integration simplifies the process of moving agents between environments, eliminating the need to manually recreate indexes in new environments. This saves time and reduces potential errors during deployment.

Context Grounding now supports structured queries. Select the Structured option from the properties panel when adding an index to your agent. This feature enhances precision when querying CSV data within indexes. The improvement leads to more accurate retrieval and processing of information from tabular data sources, enhancing the overall performance of AI-driven automation processes. Note that only CSV formats are currently supported.

Context Grounding also supports multi-modal ingestion during index creation. You can now work with documents which contain images with text (such as charts) and text-based content. This can be used to support non-native (like scanned) PDFs. Expanding the knowledge base improves agent performance and increases the versatility of Context Grounding in handling diverse data types.

We are enhancing our licensing model for Context Grounding to ensure optimal resource allocation. Moving forward, we will more strictly enforce unit licensing for Context Grounding usage. While there are no major behavioral changes, organizations without sufficient units may experience blocked search or RAG requests, accompanied by the message: "Insufficient available licensing units for operation." This measure aims to maintain service quality and fairness for all users.

For our Community users, we are introducing a quota system which includes allocations for the number of indexes (ten per tenant), daily data ingestion limits (based on number of pages), and a set number of queries per day (100).

Currently, you can acquire Unified Pricing licensing plans for Automation Cloud products and desktop products. This new licensing model caters to the needs of both existing and new customers.

If you want to continue with your existing Flex licensing model, you are free to make that choice. However, if you are currently operating under the Flex model and wish to switch to Unified Pricing, remember that this transition will require that you ensure user license management is enabled and you re-assign licenses. For more guidance, reach out to your Sales representative.

For comprehensive information on the user SKUs available in Unified pricing, refer to UiPath Licensing.

For guidance on how to select the optimal licensing model tailored to your needs, refer to the Overview guide.

For specifics related to the newly introduced Unified Pricing plans, user licenses, and Platform Units on the platform-level, refer to the Automation Cloud admin guide.

For information on the consumption logic applicable to each UiPath product, detailed user guides for each product are available. For instance, if you require licensing information specific to Maestro, you can consult the Maestro user guide.