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Document Understanding Modern Projects User Guide
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Last updated Nov 14, 2024

Metering and charging logic

When using UiPath® Document UnderstandingTM modern projects, it's essential to understand the system we use for metering and charging, specifically in relation to AI units. The main operation that we charge is digitization, without charging subsequent operations, like extraction or classification. If digitization for the same document takes place multiple times, it will be charged multiple times.

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AI units charges per page

A unique feature for modern projects is that regardless of the operations performed on a page - be it digitization, extraction, or classification - only one single AI unit is charged. This applies to all operations, encompassing both robotic process automation (RPA) and public APIs operations.

Note: Using Generative Validation consumes an additional one AI unit for each processed page. This brings the total of two AI units consumed for processed pages using generative validation.
Check the examples below for AI units consumption depending on the operations done per page:
  • OCR only → 1 AI unit / page
  • OCR and classification → 1 AI unit / page
  • OCR, classification, and extraction → 1 AI unit / page
  • OCR, classification, extraction, and Generative Validation → 2 AI units / page

Document Understanding activity packages

For the DocumentUnderstanding.Activities package, the following metering and charging policies apply:
  • If you use the Classify Document activity to process a document, triggering digitization and the result is stored in a Document Data → 1 AI unit / input page
  • If you then use the Extract Document Data activity to:
    • Process a document using the file itself as input, triggering digitization → the total cost is 2 AI units / page
      Note: You can also process a document using the file itself with the Extract Document Data activity without classifying it previously. In this case, the total cost is 1 AI unit / page.
    • Process a document using Document Data, the output of Classify Document, as input → the total cost is 1 AI Unit / page

For the InteligentOCR.Activities package, one AI unit is charged per page, regardless of the operations performed - whether it's digitization, extraction, or classification. This only applies when a modern project classifier or extractor is in use. If you use any other classifier or extractor, the respective consumption logic from the classic projects is added to the one AI unit per page. For more information, check the Mixed use section below.

AI units and model training

There are no AI units charged when training and serving models. This means you can freely train models to improve performance, develop new capabilities, and experiment without concerns about incurring additional AI units charges.

Mixed use

If a project is using both classic and modern experience, both pricing models will apply based on their respective consumption.

The pricing model for classic projects applies under the following circumstances:
  • Extraction and classification done using public endpoints, regardless of the activity package used (IntelligentOCR or Document Understanding).
  • Extraction and classification done using Generative Extraction or Generative Classification, regardless of the activity package used.

For example, if you are using Generative Classifier and extract data using a modern project, processing a five-page document, the consumption amounts to six AI units, five corresponding to the modern project, and one to the Generative Classifier.

For more information on the metering and charging logic applicable for classic scenarios, check the Document Understanding User Guide for Classic Experience.

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