Collibra Units (CUs) are credits that measure how your organization uses specific Collibra capabilities. These units account for the computation and storage costs of services, such as Collibra AI Copilot, AI-generated descriptions, and other features.
Important CUs will be available with the Collibra 2026.04 Production release.
How Collibra Units work
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Base allowance: A Collibra package includes a predefined CU balance for each contract year. This allowance is shared across all environments tied to the contract.
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Consumption: Using CU-connected features automatically deducts units from the CU balance. Features consume CUs at different rates based on their compute power and storage requirements.
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Usage tracking and limits: Administrators control which CU-connected features are enabled and can monitor consumption using the Collibra Units Consumption dashboard. Automated guardrails indicate when an organization nears any CU limits. If a limit is reached, CU-connected features slow down or temporarily pause for all users.
For information, go to CU consumption guardrails and Tracking CU consumption. -
Add-on purchases: If additional capacity is needed, extra CU bundles can be purchased. These add-on purchases are applied at the contract level and upgrade the shared allowance for all environments tied to that contract. Contact the Collibra Account Team about add-on purchases.
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Annual expiration: The CU balance resets annually at the start of a new contract year. Unused CUs expire at the end of each contract year and can't be transferred to the next year.
This applies to Cloud environments only. It doesn't impact Collibra Platform for Government or Collibra Platform Self-Hosted (CPSH) environments.
CU-connected features
Collibra Units (CUs) currently power most Collibra AI features. As Collibra evolves, this consumption model will expand to include new advanced capabilities and premium features. The following features currently consume CUs when enabled and used:
- Asset Description Generation
- Collibra AI Copilot
- Diagram Description Generation
- DQ AI Rule Generation (SQL Assistant for Data Quality)
- Semantic Mapping Agent
- Semantic Model Generation
Tip CUs are consumed only by features that have reached the Public Preview and General Availability (GA) release stage. Features in Private Preview don't consume CUs, allowing organizations to test and evaluate upcoming capabilities without impacting the CU balance.
CU consumption calculation
CU-connected features consume units based on transactions and storage:
- Transactions: CUs are consumed when specific, one-time actions are executed by a user. For example, asking Collibra AI Copilot a question.
- Storage: CUs are consumed to maintain data context, ensuring features and advanced capabilities respond instantly. For example, putting data in scope of Collibra AI Copilot.
Because of these factors, different features consume different amounts of CUs.
CU consumption guardrails
To help manage the capacity and avoid unexpected costs, Collibra enforces automated safety guardrails at specific consumption thresholds. These thresholds are visible in the Units Allowance progress bar on theCollibra Units consumption dashboard, which is accessible to administrators.
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80% CUs capacity: Warning
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At 80% capacity, the Units Allowance progress bar reflects that 80% of the total CUs has been consumed.
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Feature performance isn't impacted, and users don't experience any changes. This guardrail serves as an early warning for administrators to take action, if needed.
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100% CUs capacity: Rate limit and performance impact
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At the 100% guardrail, Collibra slows down CU consumption to manage usage. Users experience , for example, slower processing times when using CU-connected features.
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The Units Allowance progress bar reflects 100% of the total allowance.
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120% CU limit: Paused capabilities
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At 120% capacity, Collibra automatically pauses all CU-connected features to prevent further consumption. Users encounter system errors when attempting to use these features until additional CUs are purchased or the annual contract resets.
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The Units Allowance progress bar reflects the 120% hard limit.
Tracking CU consumption
As an administrator, you can track the CU consumption using the Collibra Units Consumption dashboard in the Collibra Units settings page. This pages allows you to:
- Track total CU consumption.
- Monitor CU consumption guardrail warnings.
- Analyze the specific CU consumption of CU-connected features and environments.
- Forecast annual budget needs.
View the Collibra Units Consumption dashboard
Prerequisites
You have a global role with the Product Rights > System administration global permission.
Important The Collibra Units Consumption dashboard will be available with the Collibra 2026.04 Production release.
Steps
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On the main toolbar, click
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Settings.
The Settings page opens. - Click Users and subscriptions.
The Users tab opens. - Click Collibra Units.
The Collibra Units consumption dashboard opens.
About the Collibra Units Consumption dashboard
The Collibra Units Consumption dashboard includes various sections, giving you context and statistics about the CU usage.
Units Allowance
The Units Allowance section offers a summary view of CU consumption. It shows the allowance for the current contract year and any additional CU add-on purchases.
| Field | Description |
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| Current Contract Period |
The current contract period associated with the Collibra package. All CU allowances are tied to this timeframe and reset at the end of this period. Unused units can't be carried forward. |
| Annual Allowance | The baseline number of CUs included automatically in the Collibra package for the active contract period. |
| Additional Allowance | The total number of extra CUs acquired through add-on purchases during the active contract period. |
| Total | The sum of the Annual Allowance and Additional Allowance. This represents the maximum number of CUs your organization can consume before reaching the 100% threshold. |
| Consumed | The number of CUs used by the enabled CU-connected features during the current contract period. For example, 8,337 units. |
Units Burn-Up
The Unit Burn-Up section shows a chart of cumulative CU usage over the active contract period. By plotting actual and forecast consumption against the total allowance, this chart allows you to proactively manage CU balances and anticipate if limits will be reached before the annual reset.
| Line | Description |
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| Allowance (dashed red line) |
The dashed horizontal red line represents the Total CU allowance, the absolute ceiling of the available CUs for the current contract period. In the example, this is 150,000 units. |
| Consumed Units (solid green line) |
The solid green line with shading tracks the actual cumulative CU consumption from the start of the contract period to the present day. Because it measures cumulative usage, this line always trends upward or remains flat. The shaded green area below the line highlights the total volume of consumed CUs. |
| Projected Consumed Units (dotted green line) |
The dotted green line forecasts the expected cumulative CU consumption from the current date to the end of the contract period. |
Features
The Features section shows a table that breaks down CU consumption across the platform per CU-connected feature. This view allows you to audit specific capabilities, identify heavy usage trends, and calculate the return of investment (ROI) of individual features. For each listed feature, the table shows the following information:
| Column | Description |
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| Feature |
This column lists the specific CU-connected capabilities, such as Collibra AI Copilot, that have been enabled and used in your organization across the environments that are tied to the contract. It includes both transaction-based features and storage-based allocations. |
| Consumed Units |
This column shows the precise, cumulative number of CUs consumed by the feature during the current contract period. |
| Share of consumed CUs |
This column represents the relative share of the feature against the total consumed units, adding up to 100% of the current usage. |
Monthly Consumption
The Monthly Consumption section shows a chart with a month-by-month view of the CU usage per environment. Unlike a cumulative burn-up chart, this line graph isolates consumption to individual months, allowing you to identify usage spikes, seasonal trends, or periods of heavy testing per environment.
The lines show the exact number of CUs consumed in each environment in each month. Because this tracks monthly usage rather than cumulative usage, the lines naturally rise and fall depending on platform activity. For example, a line can show a spike in February and a decrease in March.
Consumption per Feature
The Consumption per Feature section presents the same information as the Features section, but in a chart format. It provides insights into how the consumed CUs are distributed across enabled CU-connected features and helps you identify which features drive the highest adoption and consumption.
- Each colored segment in the chart corresponds to a specific CU-connected feature listed in the adjacent legend.
- The size of each segment represents the share of that feature against the total consumed CUs.
- Hover over a segment to see the values.
Consumption per Environment
The Consumption per Environment section shows a chart providing insights in how the consumed CUs are distributed across deployment environments. Because multiple environments under a single contract share the same CU allowance, this chart is critical for monitoring the distribution. It helps you identify if, for example, a specific environment is disproportionately consuming CUs.
- Each colored segment in the chart corresponds to an environment, identified by its instance URL or name in the adjacent legend.
- The size of each segment represents the share of that environment against the total consumed CUs.
- Hover over a segment to see the values.