What is an AI credit

cloudfiles ai provides a way to query documents usign natural language prompts these queries can be used to extract information from documents, to classify documents or to summarize documents uses of cloudfiles ai are billed using ai credits an ai credit is consumed in 2 ways processing a file a files is needed to be processed once for ai querying while processing a file, an ai credit is consumed for each page of the file querying a file an ai credit is consumed for each query on the file duplicate file handling cloudfiles prevents unnecessary re processing of duplicate files when a file is submitted for processing, its content is verified using hashing if the hash matches an already processed file, cloudfiles reuses the existing processed document id instead of processing it again this means no additional ai credits are consumed for duplicates, saving credits when the same file is uploaded multiple times note duplicate file handling is currently supported only for pdf files without the " pages to process" option applied