Assessing Commercial Aspects

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to assess the commercial aspects of SAP Joule for Consultants and introduce the commercial journey.

Commercials for SAP Joule for Consultants

SAP Joule for Consultants is offered through a simple and predictable commercial model, ideal for services-based teams using AI to improve SAP project delivery.

AI Units

AI Units are SAP’s virtual currency for all SAP Business AI solutions. Customers purchase AI Units through their SAP Account Representative and then allocate them to specific AI services—such as SAP Joule for Consultants—based on their business needs.

Each service has a defined consumption rate. For SAP Joule for Consultants, the consumption is tied to a per-user-per-month package, priced at:

  • 35 AI Units per user per month.
  • This includes 22,900 requests per user per month, designed to cover at least 80% of normal business usage .

This model ensures cost predictability while supporting scalable and flexible user allocation as project needs evolve.

Requests

A request is any interaction made to a large language model (LLM), internal or external—this includes any prompt-and-response pair when other metrics like "Record" or "User" don’t apply.

Note

For Joule for Consultants, each question asked and answered typically counts as nine requests.

Requests are aggregated across all users. If some users exceed their monthly limit while others remain under, this is balanced at the customer level—minimizing the risk of overages.

In case of overages, 2 AI Units per additional 1,000 requests are charged.

Activation and User Assignment

After purchasing AI Units, customers can activate SAP Joule for Consultants in SAP for Me, assign named users via SAP Cloud Identity Services (IAS), and configure entitlements in their SAP BTP Global Account.

Once users are assigned, entitlement and application configurations can be made in your SAP BTP Global Account. For more details, see here.

The commercial model is designed with predictability and flexibility in mind with fixed monthly pricing and simple allocation of users each month as needs evolve.

Lesson Summary

SAP Joule for Consultants offers a scalable, flexible, and transparent pricing model based on SAP’s AI Units. Customers purchase AI Units upfront and consume them through a per-user-per-month package that requires 35 AI Units per user and includes 22,900 requests per month—enough to cover at least 80% of typical business usage. Requests are aggregated across all users to offset individual variability and reduce the likelihood of overages, which are clearly defined and billed at 2 AI Units per additional 1,000 requests. Activation is straightforward via SAP for Me and SAP Cloud Identity Services, ensuring smooth setup and management..