About Monitoring and Managing AIDP Unit Usage
Oracle Analytics Cloud AI features use large language models (LLMs) to process natural language requests, generate responses, analyze data, and support AI-powered workflows. Because different generative AI models have different resource consumption characteristics, Oracle Analytics Cloud measures AI usage in AIDP Units rather than model-specific token usage.
Complex prompts, large datasets, document analysis, and multi-step reasoning workflows can rapidly increase AIDP Unit consumption.
Oracle Analytics Cloud provides AIDP Unit monitoring and management capabilities to help administrators monitor AI consumption, configure usage limits, and manage overage behavior. See About Generative AI Models and AIDP Units.
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Oracle Analytics Cloud governs AIDP Unit consumption through model-based usage thresholds. Customers exceeding these thresholds may purchase additional AIDP Units, opt in to usage-based billing for AIDP Units consumed, or switch to a free LLM option.
Oracle Analytics Cloud provides AIDP Unit usage visibility, configurable budget limits, alerts, and model cost controls.
While governance capabilities became available in the May 2026 update, overage charges will not begin until on or after September 30, 2026, to allow customers time to evaluate usage patterns and available options.
Oracle Analytics Cloud provides the AIDP Units Usage Settings dialog where administrators can monitor current AIDP Units consumption, review their remaining allowance, configure usage alerts, control overage spending, and manage how Oracle Analytics Cloud responds when its AIDP Unit limits are reached.
Your organization receives a monthly AIDP Unit allowance. This allowance automatically renews each month, is shared across supported AI features, and is consumed as users interact with AI in Oracle Analytics Cloud. The number of AIDP Units depends on the compute size of your Oracle Analytics Cloud. See Token Limits for AI Services in Administering Oracle Analytics Cloud on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Gen 2).
If your organization consumes its monthly AIDP Units allowance, the AI-powered features may stop processing requests, users may receive messages indicating that limits have been reached, and users may need to contact an administrator for assistance.
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To avoid service interruptions, administrators can configure AIDP Units usage alerts, allow overages, restrict high-consumption AI Assistant features, adjust AI assistants feature access for selected users, switch AI assistants to a less expensive AI model, or use the legacy model, which doesn't charge for generative AI features.
Administrators can configure alerts for administrators and users to receive email notifications when AIDP Unit consumption reaches a specified threshold. Alerts help organizations proactively monitor usage and manage AI consumption before AIDP Units are depleted. See Configure AIDP Unit Usage Threshold Email Alerts and Configure AIDP Unit Terms and Billing Settings.
If the administrator enables overages, Oracle Analytics Cloud continues processing AI requests after the included AIDP Unit allowance is exhausted. Additional consumption is billed according to AIDP billing.
Prerequisites
Before you manage AIDP Units usage settings, ensure that these prerequisites are met.
- You have the BI Service Administrator application role or belong to an application role with the Manage LLMs permission to manage AIDP Units usage for your organization.
- Your OCI administrator set up AIDP Units usage billing for additional usage. See Enable Overage Billing for AI Tokens.