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What is a Credit?

A credit is the unit of usage in Kolena. Credits are consumed whenever an Agent executes a Prompt. See more details on how credits are consumed, managed, and tracked in Tracking Usage. The amount of credit used by a Prompt depends on several factors, including the complexity of the task, the number and type of files processed, and the length of the output generated. As a rule of thumb:
  • Complex tasks, larger input files, and lengthier outputs will consume more credits
  • Simple tasks, smaller input files, and shorter outputs will consume fewer credits
Credits are similar to getting a quote to off-shore or out-source a task: the more complex the task and the greater volume of data, the higher the cost.
For users familiar with the concept of “tokens” in large language models, credits can be thought of as a bundle of tokens encompassing the various operations performed by Kolena Agents, including input analysis, reasoning, and creating output.

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Credit Usage By Common Use Cases

Here are some common use cases and their typical credit consumption per Run:
Use CaseCredits per Run
Lease Abstraction1 - 3 Credits per Property
Loss Run Analysis3 - 4 Credits per Loss Run
Compliance Testing0.5 - 1 Credit per Account Statement

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How to Optimize Credit Usage?

Credit usage depends primarly on
  • The size of your input files into an Agent
  • The length of the output from an Agent
  • The number and complexity of Prompts being executed
Below are tips to optimize credit usage.

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Avoid Sending Unnecessary Files

Uploading only files which are relevant to your task will both improve the quality of your results and lower credit usage. When possible, avoid sending files which you know beforehand will be irrelevant to the task at hand.

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Group together Prompts

When extracting “simple” values from documents, you can often use Form Prompts to group multiple “key value” pairs of data. Prefer to use one Form Prompt instead of many Number or Text Prompts.

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Use Appropriate Advanced Tools

Some advanced settings and tools impact credits usage. Use appropriate settings when you expect they will materially impact performance. For example:
  • Enhanced vision will consume additional credits. Make use of this feature when checkbox states are important and expected to be present.
  • If you have a chained Prompt which only needs to analyze the output of other Prompts (not the source files), use Ignore Run files.

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Legacy Plans: Page-Based Usage

Some existing customers are on page-based pricing plans. Kolena will continue to support these plans, but new customers will be on the new user-based pricing plans described above.
Under page-based pricing plans, usage for your Organization is tracked from the number of pages uploaded. Your Organization’s plan comes with a number of new page uploads allowed each month. See Tracking Usage for details.