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Document Understanding user guide

Metering and charging logic (Unified Pricing)

Note:

The licensing information on this page applies to you if you are on Unified Pricing. If you enrolled in Flex Plan instead, refer to [Flex] Metering and Charging Logic. For general licensing information, refer to Automation Cloud admin guide.

When using UiPath Document UnderstandingTM modern projects, it's essential to understand the consumption of Platform Units.

Platform tiers

The following table describes the available features in Document Understanding depending on the chosen Platform tier:

FeatureFeature descriptionBasicStandardEnterprise
Opt out of data collectionAllow customers to open support tickets so that they may opt out of data collection.NoYesYes

User licenses

The following table describes which user licenses provide access to Document Understanding:

UnlicensedExpressBasicPlusPro
NoNoYesYesYes

How charging works for modern projects

For Document Understanding modern projects, Platform Units are charged per operation. You pay only for the operations you run on each page:

OperationPlatform Units per page
Digitization (including OCR)0
Classification0.04
Extraction (with prior classification)0.16
Extraction (without prior classification)0.2

Per-page cap: A page that is both classified and extracted never exceeds 0.2 Platform Units in total. Digitization is always free.

The per-operation rate is the same regardless of which classifier or extractor you use, including:

  • Classifiers: Generative, Predefined, ML, and Helix Classifier 1.0.
  • Extractors: Generative, Predefined, Legacy, Helix Extractor 1.0, and Helix Extractor 2.0.

This applies to both robotic process automation (RPA) and REST API operations. For full REST API pricing — including how classic-project API calls are charged — see Metering and Charging in the API guide.

Note:
  • If multiple extractors are applied to the same page, each extraction is counted separately and charged at 0.16 Platform Units with prior classification, or 0.2 Platform Units without prior classification. Applying the same model multiple times to the same page does not multiply the charge.
  • For details on IXP metering and pricing, refer to IXP Unified Pricing page.

Through Document Understanding activity packages

For both DocumentUnderstanding.Activities and IntelligentOCR.Activities, the per-operation rates apply, based on the operation performed.

The per-operation rates apply only when:

  • For DocumentUnderstanding.Activities: a pre-defined generative or modern project classifier or extractor is in use.
  • For IntelligentOCR.Activities: a modern project classifier or extractor is in use.

If you use any other classifier or extractor, the respective consumption logic from classic projects is added to the per-operation charge. For more information, see Mixed projects (modern + classic).

Generative features — Activities 24.12-preview and above

This consumption applies in the following situations:

  • Using these activity versions with PredefinedGenerative projects:
    • IntelligentOCR newer than 6.23.2-preview
    • DocumentUnderstanding.Activities newer than 2.13.2-preview
  • Using Document Understanding API v1.1 with PredefinedGenerative projects.

There are no additional Platform Units consumed when using Generative Classification and Generative Extraction. They follow the same per-operation rates as any other classifier or extractor, which means 0.04 Platform Units for classification and 0.16 Platform Units for extraction with prior classification, capped at 0.2 Platform Units per page.

Note:

Using Generative Validation consumes an additional 0.2 Platform Units per processed page, bringing the total to 0.4 Platform Units per page when it runs.

Generative features — Activities up to 24.12-preview

This consumption applies in the following situations:

  • Using these activity versions with PredefinedGenerative projects:
    • IntelligentOCR up to 6.23.2-preview
    • DocumentUnderstanding.Activities up to 2.13.2-preview
  • Using Document Understanding API v1.0 with the Predefined project.

In these versions, generative features incur specific charges per operation, as described in the following table.

Table 1. Generative features Platform Units consumption for activities versions up to 24.12-preview

Generative featureConsumed Platform Units
Generative Classifier0.04 per operation
Generative Extraction0.24 per operation
Generative Validation0.2 per operation

Model training

There are no Platform Units charged when training and serving models. You can train models freely to improve performance, develop new capabilities, and experiment without incurring additional Platform Units charges.

Mixed projects (modern + classic)

When a project uses both classic and modern experiences, both pricing models apply based on their respective consumption.

The pricing model for classic projects applies in the following circumstances:

  • Extraction and classification done using classic projects, regardless of the activity package used (IntelligentOCR or DocumentUnderstanding.Activities).
  • Extraction and classification done using the out-of-the-box models included with the pre-defined project, regardless of the activity package used.
  • REST API calls against classic-project models. Classic per-capability rates apply, not the per-operation rates that apply to modern projects.

For full classic-project metering — including activity-based rates per OCR engine, classifier, and extractor — see the Document Understanding User Guide for Classic Experience. For classic-project REST API rates specifically, see Metering and Charging in the API guide.

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