Several geoprocessing tools consume ArcGIS credits when they are run. These tools can be used in the same way as other geoprocessing tools. The only difference is you must be signed in to an ArcGIS Online organizational account and your user name must have privileges to use the given tool. For example, to use the Enrich tool, you must be signed in to ArcGIS Online, and your account must have GeoEnrichment privileges.
Caution:
Service credit rates may change. See Service Credits Overview for the most up-to-date information.
Analysis tools
| Tool | Credit consumption | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Enrich | Uses credits unless you've installed and selected a Business Analyst Data Source. Credit consumption is 1 credit per 100 variables or features. If a drive time is used to define areas to enrich, additional credit consumption is 0.5 credits per drive time. | You can enrich 100 features with 1 variable and the cost will be 1 credit, or you can enrich 50 features with 4 variables and the cost will be 2 credits. If you enrich a 20-minute drive time around 20 points with 5 enrichment variables, the cost will be 11 credits. |
| Summarize Nearby | Uses credits when you run the tool using a network-based Distance Measurement such as Driving time or Driving distance. Credit consumption is 0.5 credits per distance and per feature. | If there are 10 input features and you summarize within a driving time of 10 minutes, the cost will be 5 credits. |
Conversion tools
| Tool | Credit consumption | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Generate Shapes Features From GTFS | Uses credits when you generate shapes based on a road network and use ArcGIS Online as the network data source. Internally, the tool uses the Route service. Credit consumption is the same as for the Find Routes tool's simple route option documented in the Network analysis section. The tool calculates one simple route per unique shape required by your transit system. Each shape represents a unique sequence of stops used by a transit vehicle. In general, the number of shapes required is at minimum the number of routes present in your GTFS data, but often each route requires multiple shapes. For a typical transit system, the number of shapes may be two or three times greater than the number of routes. It is not possible to calculate the exact number in advance of running the tool because the tool must analyze the entire GTFS dataset to find all unique sequences of stops. No credits are consumed if you use a network dataset as the network data source or if you generate shapes using straight lines instead of a road network. | If your GTFS dataset requires 100 shapes, 100 simple routes will be calculated. At 0.005 credits per simple route, running the tool will consume 0.5 credits. |
Business Analyst tools
The following Business Analyst tools will consume credits if ArcGIS Online is the active Business Analyst Data Source.
| Tool | Credit consumption | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Assign Customers by Distance | Uses credits when you use ArcGIS Online as the active Business Analyst Data Source. Credit consumption is .00005 credits per input origin and destination pair. | If there are 10 store origins and 2,000 customer destinations, the cost will be 10 credits. |
| Add Variable Based Criteria | Uses credits when you use ArcGIS Online as the active Business Analyst Data Source. Credit consumption is 1 credit per 100 attributes (data variables multiplied by the number of input features). | You can enrich 100 features with 1 variable and the cost will be 1 credit, or you can enrich 50 features with 4 variables and the cost will be 2 credits. If you enrich a 20-minute drive time around 20 points with 5 enrichment variables, the cost will be 11 credits. |
| Color Coded Layer | Uses credits when you use ArcGIS Online as the active Business Analyst Data Source. Running the tool does not consume credits; however, every map request made to the output color-coded layer will result in 1 credit per 100 map requests (pan, zoom, and identify). | You can select one variable as a color-coded layer. If you then pan or zoom the map 100 times, the cost will be 1 credit. |
| Enrich Layer | Uses credits when you use ArcGIS Online as the active Business Analyst Data Source. Credit consumption is 1 credit per 100 attributes (data variables multiplied by the number of input features). | You can enrich 100 features with 1 variable and the cost will be 1 credit, or you can enrich 50 features with 4 variables and the cost will be 2 credits. If you enrich a 20-minute drive time around 20 points with 5 enrichment variables, the cost will be 11 credits. |
| Find Nearby Locations | Uses credits when you use ArcGIS Online as the active Business Analyst Data Source. Credit consumption is 0.0005 credits per input origin-destination pair. The first distance limit parameter met is used to determine consumption. | A 10 (origins) by 100 (destinations) matrix will generate 1,000 origin-destination pairs, and the cost will be 0.5 credits. |
| Generate Approximate Drive Times | Uses credits when you use ArcGIS Online as the active Business Analyst Data Source. Credit consumption is 0.5 credits per iteration. It can take approximately 6 to 12 iterations to reach one drive time polygon. You can restrict the number of iterations with the Iterations Limit parameter. | If you run the tool for 2 locations, each location may need 10 iterations to reach the approximate drive time resulting in 10 credits. |
| Generate Customer Derived Trade Areas | Uses credits when you use ArcGIS Online as the active Business Analyst Data Source. Credits are consumed only when the trade area method is set to Threshold Drive Time. Internally, three operations incur credits: Threshold Drive Time per iteration (0.5 credits per polygon), Infographic View (0.01 credits per view), and GeoEnrichment request (0.01 credits per view). A Threshold Drive Time takes approximately 6 to 12 iterations to reach one drive time polygon. Restrict the number of iterations with the Iterations Limit parameter. | If you run threshold drive times for 2 locations, each location may need 10 iterations to reach the threshold variable, followed by one Infographic View and one GeoEnrichment request to retrieve the selected variable, resulting in 10.2 credits. |
| Generate Desire Lines | Uses credits when you use ArcGIS Online as the active Business Analyst Data Source. Credit consumption is 0.0005 credits per input origin-destination pair. | A 10 (origin) by 100 (destinations) matrix will generate 1,000 origin-destination pairs, and the cost will be 0.5 credits. |
| Generate Drive Time Trade Area | Uses credits when you use ArcGIS Online as the active Business Analyst Data Source. Credit consumption is 0.5 credits per drive time polygon. | If there are 10 facilities and you specify 5- and 10-minute drive times, the total cost will be 10 credits. |
| Generate Points from Business Listings | Uses credits when you use ArcGIS Online as the active Business Analyst Data Source. Credit consumption is 10 credits per 1,000 business records downloaded. | You can search for all businesses in an extent and initially locate 1,000 and filter the results to 500 businesses. If you run this analysis and save the outputted records locally as a layer, the cost will be 5 credits. |
| Generate Threshold Drive Times | Uses credits when you use ArcGIS Online as the active Business Analyst Data Source. Credits are consumed only when the trade area method is set to Threshold Drive Time. Internally, three operations incur credits: Threshold Drive Time iteration (0.5 credits per polygon), Infographic View (0.01 credits per view), and GeoEnrichment request (0.01 credits per view). A Threshold Drive Time takes approximately 6 to 12 iterations to reach one drive time polygon. Restrict the number of iterations with the Iterations Limit parameter. | If you run threshold drive times for 2 locations, each location may need 10 iterations to reach the threshold variable, followed by one Infographic View and one GeoEnrichment request to retrieve the selected variable, resulting in 10.2 credits. |
| Measure Cannibalization | Uses credits when you use ArcGIS Online as the active Business Analyst Data Source. Credits are only consumed if variables are added from the data browser as Additional Metrics. Credit consumption is 1 credit per 100 attributes (data variables multiplied by the number of input features). | You can enrich 25 features with 4 variables and the cost will be 1 credit, or you can enrich 10 features with 20 variables and the cost will be 2 credits. |
| Summary Reports | Uses credits when you use ArcGIS Online as the active Business Analyst Data Source. Credit consumption is 10 credits per report. | If you run 10 reports on one trade area, the cost will be 100 credits, regardless of the number of pages per report. |
Geocoding tools
The following Geocoding tools will consume credits when you run the tool using the ArcGIS World Geocoding Service as the Input Address Locator.
| Tool | Credit consumption | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Geocode Addresses | Uses 40 credits per 1,000 addresses geocoded. | If the address table has 1,000 rows, the cost will be 40 credits. |
| Rematch Addresses | Uses 40 credits per 1,000 addresses rematched. | If the geocode results layer has 1,000 unmatched rows, the cost will be 40 credits. |
| Reverse Geocode | Uses 40 credits per 1,000 addresses geocoded. | If the input layer has 1,000 points, the cost will be 40 credits. |
Network Analyst tools
The following Network Analyst tool will consume credits when the network analysis layer references ArcGIS Online as the network data source. The tool does not consume credits when the network analysis layer references a local network dataset.
| Tool | Credit consumption | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Solve | Credit consumption is determined by the type of network analysis layer you're solving. See the Ready to use tools Network analysis section to determine credit consumption for different types of analysis. | For examples, see the Ready to use service tools section below. |
Ready to use service tools
These services are hosted on ArcGIS Online. The tools can be accessed in the Ready To Use tools gallery or through an ArcGIS Server connection.
Elevation
These service tools can be accessed at http://elevation.arcgis.com/arcgis/services.
Note:
Elevation tools no longer consume credits and can be used for free.
- Profile
- Summarize Elevation
- Viewshed
Hydrology
These service tools can be accessed at http://hydro.arcgis.com/arcgis/services.
Note:
Hydrology tools no longer consume credits and can be used for free.
- Trace Downstream
- Watershed
Network analysis
These service tools can be accessed at http://logistics.arcgis.com/arcgis/services.
| Tool | Credit consumption | Example |
|---|---|---|
Find Closest Facilities | Uses 0.5 credits per closest facilities route. | If there are 10 incident points and 2 facilities, the cost will be 5 credits if all 10 incident points can be successfully routed to a facility. |
Find Routes | Uses 0.005 credits per simple route. Uses 0.5 credits per optimized route. | If there are 2 stops, the cost of the route will be 0.005 credits. If there are 10 stops, the cost of the route remains 0.005 credits. For these routes, the order of stops is determined by the order of the records in the stops table. If you choose the option to reorder the stops to optimize travel time, the cost will be 0.5 credits. |
Generate Service Areas | Uses 0.5 credits per service area or drive time. | If there are 10 facilities and you specify drive times of 5 and 10 minutes, the cost will be 10 credits. |
Origin Destination Cost Matrix | Uses 0.0005 credits per input origin and destination pair. | If there are 100 origins and 200 destinations, the cost will be 10 credits. If you specify a cutoff, or limit the number of destinations, such as to find only the 5 closest destinations within 10 minutes of every origin, the cost will still be 10 credits, as the credits depend on the number of input origin-destination pairs. |
Solve Location Allocation | Uses 0.1 credits per demand point. | If there are 5 facilities to evaluate and 100 demand points to allocate to those facilities, the cost will be 10 credits. |
Solve Vehicle Routing Problem | Uses 1 credit per VRP route. | If you're routing 5 vehicles through 100 total stops, the cost will be 5 credits. |