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# About Unmetered Tableau Next

With the Tableau Next unmetered permission, certain analytics features are available for unmetered usage, including most queries and pre-configured AI agent usage. Unmetered usage doesn’t consume credits.

### Required Editions

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Data Queries, Data Transforms, and Analytics Actions of Agentforce initiated from Tableau Next are unmetered when the interacting user has the **Access includes unmetered Analytics Insights and Agentic Analytics workloads** permission.

To classify a Tableau Next interaction as unmetered usage, these conditions must be met.

- The session must be tied to an identifiable user session or user action.
- The user account must have the **Access includes unmetered Analytics Insights and Agentic Analytics workloads** permission.
- For Data 360 queries and zero-copy services, users must have Data 360 Flex Credits. For more information, see [Billing Considerations for Tableau Next](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_usage_types.htm&language=en_US).

## Unmetered Usage

With the unmetered Creator, Consumer, and Unmetered User Based Access Tableau Next licenses, these categories of services and features are available for unmetered usage.

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Note With Limited Consumer and Included App licenses, usage is unmetered only for viewing and exploration of analytics assets in Tableau Next Apps for Salesforce.

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            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d48157e89">Tableau Next Functional Area</th>
            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d48157e92">Available Unmetered Service or Feature</th>
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            <td data-label="Tableau Next Functional Area" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d48157e89 ">Intelligent Apps Installation</td>

            <td data-label="Available Unmetered Service or Feature" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d48157e92 ">Automated Salesforce setup and app installation for most Tableau Next Apps for
              Salesforce.</td>

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            <td data-label="Tableau Next Functional Area" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d48157e89 ">Batch Data Transforms</td>

            <td data-label="Available Unmetered Service or Feature" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d48157e92 ">
              <p>In the home org only: Transform operations on <span>Data 360</span> data used by
                Tableau Next, initiated from <span>Data 360</span> or Tableau Next. Within their
                contexts, users can connect and preview data tables. </p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;"><strong class="uicontrol">Note: </strong>Batch
                Data Transforms are unmetered for all users in an unmetered org.</p>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Tableau Next Functional Area" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d48157e89 ">Tableau Next Authoring</td>

            <td data-label="Available Unmetered Service or Feature" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d48157e92 ">
              <p><strong>Semantic queries: </strong>This covers semantic queries generated through pre-built apps or
                cloud-built Lightning Web Components, for example, Marketing Cloud via Connect API.</p>
              <p><strong>Semantic layer authoring: </strong>Analysts can run queries as part of authoring semantic
                models within <span>Data 360</span> or Tableau Next.</p>
              <p><strong>Developer experiences: </strong>Developers can use the Tableau Next Embedding SDK and
                semantic queries via the Tableau Next REST Connect API.</p>
              <p><strong>Data Lens:</strong> Users can open a Data Lens within Tableau Next and explore it with
                queries run within their contexts.</p>
              <p><strong>Query services:</strong> Direct-access query services within Home, Data Cloud One, or
                Personal Org. Users can run dashboards, metrics, insights, and data lens queries on objects
                in a home or production org.</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;"><strong>Note:</strong> Uploading CSV or Excel files to a Tableau Next workspace isn’t
                unmetered.</p>
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            <td data-label="Tableau Next Functional Area" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d48157e89 ">Analytics Content from Tableau Next</td>

            <td data-label="Available Unmetered Service or Feature" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d48157e92 ">
              <p><strong>Pre-Built Tableau Next Assets: </strong>Users can view dashboards, visualizations, metrics,
                and insights for analytics embedded in Salesforce Clouds.</p>
              <p><strong>Custom Tableau Next Assets: </strong>Analysts can create and edit dashboards,
                visualizations, and metrics in Tableau Next. Assets created in Tableau Next can be viewed
                and consumed anywhere in Salesforce or externally.</p>
              <p><strong>Business User Home: </strong>Explore metrics, insights, and Insight Summary in the Tableau
                Next business user Home. Metrics and Insight service generate queries in user context, both
                within Tableau Next or anywhere in Salesforce via Tab.</p>
              <p><strong>In-the-Flow of Work: </strong>Explore dashboards, visualizations, metrics, insights, and
                Insight Summary in the Tableau Next business user Home, and in Salesforce, Slack, Microsoft
                Teams, or any web page. </p>
              <p><strong>Mobile: </strong>Access insights, metrics, and dashboards in the Salesforce1 Mobile
                App.</p>
              <p><strong>PDS integration:</strong> Tableau Next users can query published data sources (PDS) in
                Tableau Cloud. </p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;"><strong>Note:</strong> Unmetered use of embedded assets is available when the user has the
                unmetered permission.</p>
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            <td data-label="Tableau Next Functional Area" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d48157e89 ">Tableau Agent in Tableau Next</td>

            <td data-label="Available Unmetered Service or Feature" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d48157e92 ">
              <p>Tableau Next users can work with the Analytics and Visualization template with these
                pre-configured subagents: </p>
              <p><strong>Data Analysis:</strong> Converse with the agent about your data.</p>
              <p><strong>Data Alert Management:</strong> Set proactive alerts to get notified when thresholds are
                met.</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;"><strong>Data Pro - Preparation and Modeling: </strong>Get assistance with Tableau Semantics,
                including semantic model optimization, semantic descriptions, related fields, calculated
                fields, etc. </p>
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            <td data-label="Tableau Next Functional Area" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d48157e89 ">Actionability</td>

            <td data-label="Available Unmetered Service or Feature" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d48157e92 ">Take action from Tableau Next assets with Lightning Flows via use of semantic queries
              in Lightning Flow Builder.</td>

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## Metered Usage

These categories of services and features aren’t available for unmetered usage.

 
| Data 360 Functional Area | Not Available for Unmetered Usage |
| --- | --- |
| Data 360 Operations initiated outside of Tableau Next | Segmentation, Unstructured Data, Einstein for Data Cloud, Query Editor, Data Explorer, Data Lens, Calculated Insights creation, Data Cloud Agents |
| Analytics outside of Tableau Next | Tableau Classic and CRM Analytics calls to Data 360 and Tableau Semantics, Data Cloud Reports and Dashboards, Query Service Direct Access and Connect APIs run in a Data 360 context, for example, connectors |
| Workflow and Automation | Consent Jobs, Flow Builder enabled use of Data 360 Query APIs, Semantic Layer Query API outside of first party apps |

#### See Also

- [Assign Unmetered Tableau Next Licenses and Permission Sets](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_admin_unmetered.htm&language=en_US)
- [Billing Considerations for Tableau Next](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_usage_types.htm&language=en_US)