> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.orbitsearch.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# View Orbit Search credits and API usage

> Track your credit balance, per-key usage, and recent Orbit Search API activity from the developer dashboard and response headers.

Use the [Orbit developer dashboard](https://developer.orbitsearch.com/dashboard/keys) to inspect your credit balance and per-key usage. For request-time tracking, every successful metered API response includes your remaining balance in the `X-Developer-API-Credits-Remaining` header.

```http theme={"dark"}
X-Developer-API-Credits-Remaining: 47
```

## Dashboard usage view

The dashboard shows:

| Field           | What it means                                                                          |
| --------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Allowance       | Total credits available for the current billing period                                 |
| Used            | Credits consumed so far this period                                                    |
| Remaining       | Credits still available before requests fail with `developer_api_credits_insufficient` |
| Recent activity | Recent metered requests and credit adjustments                                         |
| Per-key usage   | Credit usage grouped by API key display identifier                                     |

<Info>
  Credit accounting is subject-based. Personal API keys draw from your user account. Organization API keys draw from the organization that owns the key.
</Info>

## Request-time tracking

Read `X-Developer-API-Credits-Remaining` after successful search and profile-read requests to keep your application aware of the current balance without calling a separate management endpoint.

```javascript theme={"dark"}
const remaining = response.headers.get("X-Developer-API-Credits-Remaining");
```

Requests that fail validation, authentication, rate limits, or system errors do not consume credits. Searches or profile reads that return no result are refunded automatically.

<Note>
  Developer API keys cannot call key-management or usage endpoints. Public integrations should use dashboard-issued `sk_orb_...` keys for search/profile API calls, and use the dashboard for key and usage management.
</Note>