Manage AI Builder capacity
Premium experiences, such as performing a prediction in a prebuilt model or launching a training action on a custom model such as object detection, require available capacity in the current environment.
An environment is a Microsoft Power Platform concept that defines a storage and working area. Usually, an environment includes a Microsoft Dataverse database (which is required for AI Builder to work correctly) and apps, AI models, and flows that are created in it. For example, tenants might use environments to distinguish production (Prod) environments from development (Dev) environments, and might occasionally use them to separate areas between Enterprise divisions. An environment is also known as an organization in a dynamic namespace.
When you purchase the AI Builder Capacity add-on, corresponding capacity is made available at the tenant level. To make it available at the environment level, you need to assign it in Microsoft Power Platform admin center on the Resources > Capacity page.
If your tenant is entitled to any Microsoft Power Platform Capacity add-ons, including the AI Builder Capacity add-on, the Add-ons tab appears.
In this section, you'll learn how to assign and unassign AI Builder credits to your environments.
Select Assign to an environment at the top of the page to open a side panel. In this panel, select the environment that you want to modify, enter the new number of AI Builder credits that you want this environment to be assigned to, and then select Save.
The total of assigned AI Builder credits across an environment can't exceed the number of available AI Builder credits at the tenant level.
If you want to reassign credits from one environment to another, reduce the capacity for the first environment before raising the capacity in the second environment.
If you assign more credits than there are remaining, you won't be able to save, and an error message will warn you that the "Quantity can't exceed the remaining."
After you have saved the environment, the amount is directly assigned, and users can begin performing premium actions.
The goal of this assignment step is to allow an admin to correctly manage your capacity across your environments. You might want to limit the number of AI Builder credits that are used in the Dev environment so more can be used in the Prod environment. At any time, you can purchase an additional AI Builder Capacity add-on and distribute the other AI Builder credits among your environments.
As shown in the following image, the total number of assigned AI Builder credits can be seen in the first tab of Resources > Capacity, in the Add-On part of the screen, at the bottom of the page.
The preceding screenshot shows that zero AI Builder credits have been assigned out of the 125,001 that have been purchased.
When a given environment has no AI Builder credits assigned, no premium actions are available. In that case, the only way to perform premium actions is to have an AI Builder trial license. An AI Builder trial license can be obtained by selecting the Start trial button in the Trial banner.
The Trial banner appears at the top of AI Builder pages in environments where no AI Builder credit is assigned.
Starting a trial allows a user to perform premium actions in environments without AI Builder capacity. AI Builder trial is limited in time, only 30 days, and is limited to a 200,000 credit capacity for those 30 days. Once the 30 days are over, you're given limited opportunities to renew the trial period.
When a user with a trial performs a premium action within an environment with AI Builder capacity, then the consumption is counted against the environment capacity.
When building in a AI Builder trial capacity, you're unable to create models, run models within Power Apps or Power Automate, or schedule a model run or retrain.
You're now able to identify how to manage the AI Builder capacity with assign and unassign. You also know how to check the AI Builder capacity assignment. Additionally, you can distinguish the different ways to perform AI Builder actions: in an environment with AI Builder capacity assigned or with an AI Builder trial license at the user level.