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title: Token Consumption
description: "Our AI features, such as AI Video Matching, analyze your videos and pages to understand what they are about. This processing is measured in tokens: small units of text the AI reads and writes. The more content the AI analyzes, the more tokens are used."
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# Token Consumption
## Understanding your AI usage
Our AI features, such as **AI Video Matching, Auto Descriptions, Auto Chapters, etc.**, analyze your videos and pages to understand what they are about. This processing is measured in **tokens**: small units of text the AI reads and writes. The more content the AI analyzes, the more tokens are used.
- **Tokens In** – tokens the AI reads (input), for example the text of a page or a video’s metadata.
- **Tokens Out** – tokens the AI writes (output), for example a generated description or chapter titles.
- **Total Tokens** – Tokens In and Tokens Out combined.
AI features are billed based on token consumption. The **Token Consumption** report shows exactly how many tokens you used, for which feature and on which day.
### Token Usage Over Time
This chart shows how many tokens were used per day, in total and per feature:
- **Page Scraping** – reading the content of your pages and videos.
- **Feature Extraction** – identifying topics, keywords and other key information from that content.
- **Fusion Ranking** – comparing the results to find the best video for each page.
- **Auto Description** – automatically generating video descriptions.
- **Auto Chapters** – automatically dividing videos into chapters.
### Items Analyzed Over Time
This chart shows how many items (videos and pages) each feature processed per day.
Use this chart together with the token chart: a rise in tokens usually comes from more items being analyzed, for example after you upload many new videos or add a new site.
### Daily breakdown table
The table below the charts lists your usage per day with **Total Tokens**, **Tokens In** and **Tokens Out**. Use the tabs above the table to switch between **Total** and individual features (**Page Scraping**, **Feature Extraction**, **Fusion Ranking**, **Auto Description**, **Auto Chapters**).
### Good to know
- Token usage is usually highest when AI features are first switched on or when a lot of new content is added, because all of it has to be analyzed. After that, only new content is processed.
- Days without activity don’t appear in the table.
- If you don’t see the **Token Consumption** section, contact your account manager to have it enabled for your account.
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