Web Apps - Spatial Analysis Credit Usage

GavinMayeda · ‎07-18-2016

I have a question regarding the credits used with 'Find Existing Locations.'

Credit usage is 1 credit per 1,000 features, is that per 1,000 features returned, or 1,000 features queried?

I believe that I already know the answer, but feedback from the community helps to solidify my position when limiting staff usage.

As always, thank you in advance for any and all help!

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RebeccaStrauch__GISP · ‎07-18-2016

That's actually a good question since http://www.arcgis.com/features/plans/credits.html is a bit vague, and I'm assuming you've already tried to decipher

Service Credits Overview

Your annual ArcGIS Online subscription comes with a set amount of service credits, and you can always get more if you need them.

What Requires Service Credits?

You can use service credits in exchange for storage, analytics, demographics and lifestyle maps. Use the chart below for more information.

How Many Service Credits Do You Need?

The chart below shows how many service credits you will need depending on the services you plan to use.

What Does Not Require Service Credits?

Most of what you do with ArcGIS Online does not require service credits, for example:
Accessing the data you store in ArcGIS Online in apps.
Using ArcGIS Online foundation maps and data (basemaps, Landsat imagery, landscape layers, live traffic, and other live feeds).
Exporting data stored in ArcGIS Online.
Performing single address or place search.
Leveraging your own ArcGIS for Server capabilities to host and publish map services.

My guess after looking Perform analysis—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS would be the number of records queried, since many of the functions will return summarized or aggregate results, but that is only a guess. That is unless you are only being charged for the storage, and the analysis is actually free???? I'm a bit confused too.

AdrianWelsh · ‎07-18-2016

Gavin,

I agree with Rebecca. This is a great question. I am tagging Owen Evans to hopefully come with the Esri-based knowledge of an official answer.

GavinMayeda · ‎07-19-2016

Rebecca,

Yes, I do have the Service Credits by Capacity chart at my desk and it is a bit vague.

Based on the analysis that I have been running, it was difficult to tell what my credit usage was per query since the subject areas were fairly small, 1,000 features+/-. Yesterday I queried my entire map, and it used 178 credits! This was actually a good result, because we have 177,000+ ground level parcels within our county.

As I said before, I was pretty sure that I knew the answer but it helps to have an additional voice with the same data.

Hopefully that helps you both!