SAP Business AI brings Joule, SAP's AI assistant, and Joule Agents into SAP's cloud applications so teams can work with business context inside the tools they already use. Joule supports intent-driven work across business functions, turning transactional tasks into connected workflows, while Joule Agents take action, automate tasks and run workflows end to end, drawing on the SAP Knowledge Graph and SAP Business Data Cloud. Capabilities span finance, supply chain, procurement, HR and customer experience, with enterprise-grade security, GDPR-aligned data processing and tenant-level data isolation. Access is organized in layers: Base AI is included with SAP cloud subscriptions at no extra cost, while Premium AI capabilities are consumed through AI Units.
How to use SAP Business AI
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Activate Joule base
Customers with existing SAP cloud subscriptions can activate Joule base for free to get started immediately.
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Follow the implementation learning journey
Complete SAP's official learning journey on implementing Joule across your organizational system landscape for guidance on prerequisites, provisioning, configuration, security and activation.
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Monitor AI Unit consumption
Use SAP for Me as the central hub to activate AI capabilities and track AI Unit consumption, balances and billing in near real time.
SAP Business AI Features
Joule AI assistant for intent-driven work across business functions
Joule Agents that take action, automate tasks and run workflows end to end
Grounded in SAP Knowledge Graph and SAP Business Data Cloud
Embedded AI across finance, supply chain, procurement, HR and customer experience
Role-specific assistance within SAP cloud applications
Enterprise-grade security with GDPR-aligned data processing
Tenant-level data isolation with no customer data stored in Joule
AI Unit consumption monitoring in SAP for Me
SAP Business AI Use Cases
Finance teams supporting risk management and forecasting
Supply chain and procurement teams optimizing planning, supplier management and inventory
HR teams enhancing recruiting and employee engagement
Customer experience teams improving insights, lead generation and campaign performance
Administrators activating and governing Joule across an SAP landscape
SAP Business AI FAQs
Joule is SAP's AI assistant that enables intent-driven work across business functions by transforming transactional tasks into connected workflows. It is grounded in SAP's harmonized data and trusted architecture.
SAP positions Joule as offering deep enterprise integration, business-context awareness and embedded functionality across SAP's cloud portfolio. It provides role-specific assistance with enterprise-grade security and GDPR compliance while maintaining data isolation within customer SAP tenancies.
SAP applies data masking and pseudonymization, keeps customer data within the customer's own SAP tenancy with tenant-level isolation, and stores no customer data within Joule. Processing follows GDPR requirements and SAP's data protection policy.
Customers with existing SAP cloud subscriptions can activate Joule base for free. SAP also offers an official learning journey covering prerequisites, provisioning, configuration, security and activation.
Joule Agents are ready-to-use AI agents that support decision support and task automation for non-deterministic workflows. They select from tools such as Joule skills, other agents and third-party applications, then reason on results to make recommendations.
AI Units are SAP's single virtual currency for accessing and running Premium AI capabilities, purchased annually via SKU 8019164. They sit in one shared pool and are consumed only when Premium AI actively performs work; unused units expire after 12 months.
All SAP-delivered autonomous enterprise agents in 2026 are priced at 0.02 AI Units per agent action. A task may require multiple actions, and no AI Units are consumed when an agent is not running.
Each assigned user is charged 35 AI Units per month, including a pooled allowance of 22,900 requests per user per month. Requests beyond the pooled allowance are billed at 2 AI Units per 1,000 requests.
Base AI is included with SAP cloud subscriptions at no extra cost. Premium AI is consumed through AI Units purchased annually (SKU 8019164); unused AI Units expire after 12 months. Agent actions are priced at 0.02 AI Units per action.
Base AI
0/ included with SAP cloud subscription
Included at no extra cost for customers with an SAP cloud subscription, with no AI Units required. Gives every user access to Joule for everyday tasks and embedded AI in SAP applications.
Joule access for everyday tasks such as finding information and navigating applications
In-context guidance inside SAP applications
Embedded AI capabilities within SAP applications
No AI Units consumed
Premium AI
/ AI Units purchased annually
Moves beyond answering questions to doing work, centered on agents that take action, automate tasks and run workflows end to end. Also includes high-value AI services and SAP Joule for Consultants.
AI agents that take action and run workflows end to end
High-value AI services included
SAP Joule for Consultants, the only remaining per-user offering
AI Units drawn from one shared pool across Premium AI capabilities
Agent actions priced at 0.02 AI Units per action
SAP Joule for Consultants
35AI Units / per user per month
A per-user Premium AI offering charged at 35 AI Units per user per month, including a pooled request allowance of 22,900 requests per user per month.
35 AI Units per user per month
Pooled allowance of 22,900 requests per user per month
Requests pooled across all users
Additional requests billed at 2 AI Units per 1,000 requests
Assigned users can be adjusted monthly
Custom-built AI
0/ free through the end of 2026
SAP's platform for organizations building their own agents, applications and workflows beyond packaged offerings. Running custom-built agents in a productive Joule Studio runtime environment is free through the end of 2026.
Build your own agents, applications and workflows
Runs in a productive Joule Studio runtime environment