Qlik Cloud capacity-based subscriptions

Qlik Cloud offers capacity-based subscriptions for analytics and data integration. Each tier includes different capabilities and capacity limits, allowing you to choose the best fit for your organization. This page explains subscription options and key concepts, such as value meters, capacity limits, guardrails, and overage.

Value meters determine pricing and billing for Qlik Cloud subscriptions by measuring resource usage. Capacity-based subscriptions primarily track data volume, but the specific value meters vary by subscription type. For details on applicable value meters and how they are calculated, see Understanding the subscription value meters.

When selecting a subscription, estimate your data volume and the percentage of data that you will analyze or move with Qlik Cloud. Then, subscribe to capacity packs based on your usage:

• Data for Analysis (Qlik Cloud Analytics)

• Data Moved (Qlik Talend Data Integration)

For Qlik Cloud Enterprise, you can subscribe to Data for Analysis, Data Moved, or both.

For Qlik Cloud Analytics Starter, pricing is based on the number of users.

Monitoring usage

Administrators can track user entitlements, data capacity, and other consumption-based resources in the Administration activity center.

The service account owner (SAO) can view overall license usage in My Qlik.

To analyze usage in more detail, use the detailed consumption report app.

For more information, see:

• Monitoring resource consumption

• Managing your Qlik Cloud subscription

• Monitoring detailed consumption for capacity-based subscriptions

Capacities, guardrails, and capabilities

All Qlik Cloud subscriptions provide the same speed, performance, and availability. They share the same user interface and activity centers on Qlik Cloud. However, each edition has different capacity limits and capabilities.

Capacities

Capacities define how much of a resource you can consume. Some capacities are fixed, such as the number of parallel reloads. Others are consumption-based and measured over time, such as data capacity, app reloads, or reports generated per month.

Capacity usage is tracked across all tenants within a Qlik Cloud license. For example, if tenant A uses 200 reloads and tenant B uses 100 reloads under the same license, the total consumption is 300 reloads.

Guardrails

Guardrails are hard limits on capacities. They prevent excessive usage when a capacity metric reaches a critical threshold. Guardrails help maintain Qlik Cloud performance and stability, for example, by limiting the number of parallel reloads to prevent system overload.

Capabilities

Capabilities are Qlik Cloud features, such as managed spaces, reporting, and Application Automation. Your subscription determines which capabilities are available and their capacity limits.

You can view the capabilities available in your tenant in the Administration activity center.

Overage

Overage occurs when your usage of a resource, such as Data for Analysis or Data Moved, exceeds the purchased capacity limit. When applicable, overage allows continued access without interruption.

• You can continue using the resource until the consumption reaches 10 times the purchased capacity limit.

• Overage consumption is calculated and billed monthly.

For more information, see Qlik Cloud® Subscriptions.

Overage notifications

When your usage approaches or exceeds a capacity limit (at 90%, 95%, and 100%), notifications appear in the Administration activity center. The service account owner (SAO) receives an email and may be contacted by Qlik about add-ons or upgrade options.

Resources without allowed overage

Overage consumption is not allowed for the following resources:

• AutoML deployed models: Your subscription includes a maximum number of deployed models across all tenants within the license. This limit applies per model, meaning that multiple ML deployments from the same model count as a single deployed model.

  • If you reach the limit, delete an existing deployed model or upgrade to a higher tier.

• Users: If you invite a user when no more entitlements are available, their status becomes Requested, and they cannot access activity centers or apps.

  • For more information, see Managing users in status Requested.

• Data for Analysis in Qlik Cloud Analytics Starter: The Starter edition has a fixed capacity of 25 GB. If you reach the limit, you cannot import or reload apps or add data files.

  • To free up capacity, delete apps and data files.

  • To increase capacity, upgrade your subscription.