Consumption Units and Credits

Glossary

Product — one of the OWOX BI Products like Pipeline, Streaming, and Transformation.

Consumption Unit — evaluates how actively a customer uses each Product. One Product has one or more Consumption units. For example, the Product 'OWOX BI Pipeline' has two Consumption units: 'Data Sources' and 'Pipelines'. Check out how Product Consumption Units convert to Credits

Credit — a value of a unit of a consumed Product.

Tier — a range of consumed Credits, defining a ‘Subscription price’ and ‘Pay-as-you-go price’ per Credit within a Tier.

Calculation logic with examples

Note:All the numbers above are provided for logic illustration only.

Product monthly price calculation includes three steps: Consumption units, Credits, and price.

Step 1. Calculating Consumption units

Consumed units are calculated during the reporting period. Take a look at the example below:

Each unit has criteria to be calculated as «consumed» and rounding. For instance:

• If a Pipeline was created, but no data is gathered within a month, the Pipeline isn't counted.
• The number of consumed operation runs is rounded up to hundreds.

Step 2. Calculating Credits

Each Consumption unit has a predefined Credit value:

Calculation of the consumed Credits is as simple as that: Consumed Credits = Credits Per Unit × Qty.

Step 3. Calculating price

As a SaaS product, we offer subscription options for our customers for lower prices than pay-as-you-go. The more credits consumer subscribes to, the less they pay for Credit on average. For instance, customers' product subscriptions could look like this:

For the example above, the subscription price for 1,875 Credits costs $1,600:

If the number of actually consumed Credits exceeds subscribed ones, the overdraft will be paid by Pay-as-you-go price. For instance, if a customer subscribes for 1,500 Credits only, but consumes 1,875 Credits, an invoice looks like this: