Consumption Units and Credits

Glossary

Product — one of the OWOX BI Products like Pipeline, Streaming, Transformation, and BigQuery Reports (Google Sheets Extension).

Consumption Unit (e.g. Report Runs, Data Sources, Client-Side Users, Operation Run, and others) — evaluates how actively a customer uses each Product (OWOX BI Pipeline, Streaming, Transformation, and Google Sheets extension "OWOX BI BigQuery Reports").

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

NoteThe prices are given as an example to demonstrate the calculation logic. The actual price you get fixed in your contract after the demo call.

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 1,975 Credits costs $2,594:

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 1,975 Credits in August 2022, an invoice looks like this:

Credits consumption page

On the Credits Consumption page, you can view monthly Credit usage for Pipelines, Streaming, Transformations, and BigQuery Reports (Google Sheets Extension) products. Read more about the Credit consumption page