Credits & Abrechnung

Credits model

• Public API billing is credits-only.
• One returned business resource or collection row costs one credit.
• Every active workspace plan includes 10,000 recurring credits per month.
• Top-up credits carry over and do not expire.

Consumption order

1. Recurring monthly credits are consumed first.
2. Top-up carry-over credits are consumed second.

Metered collection endpoints use reservation and settlement in the backend, so the final cost is based on returned results rather than requested limits alone.

Helpful endpoints and headers

• GET /v1/usage exposes the runtime balance snapshot. It is unmetered, but still returns X-Usage-Cost: 0, X-Credits-Used: 0, and X-Credits-Remaining.
• Successful metered responses can include X-Usage-Cost, X-Credits-Used, X-Credits-Remaining, and X-Credits-Source.
• Shell endpoints like /v1/me, /v1/workspace, /v1/openapi.json, and /v1/docs remain unmetered.

Response headers explained

Metering headers are emitted on metered endpoints. GET /v1/usage is the unmetered exception: it returns X-Usage-Cost: 0, X-Credits-Used: 0, and X-Credits-Remaining so agents can read the balance from headers as well as the body.

Poll /v1/usage at session start

Long-running agents should call /v1/usage once when they boot to size their work against the remaining budget. It is unmetered, so there is no cost to calling it at every cold start. The response includes X-Usage-Cost: 0, X-Credits-Used: 0, and X-Credits-Remaining.

export TT_API_BASE_URL="https://api.trendtrack.io"
curl -s "$TT_API_BASE_URL/v1/usage" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TT_API_KEY"

{
  "data": {
    "plan": "professional",
    "monthly": {
      "included": 10000,
      "remaining": 7240,
      "resetAt": "2026-05-01T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    "topUp": { "remaining": 1500 },
    "total": { "remaining": 8740 }
  },
  "requestId": "req_01HZ…"
}

If total.remaining is below your worst-case job cost, stop and surface the budget gap to the caller instead of hitting 402 insufficient_credits mid-loop.

Top-ups

Manual and automatic top-ups are supported from the webapp billing layer. The fixed exchange rate is $1 = 1,000 credits, with a minimum top-up amount of $10.

Force a docs cache refresh

When the API schema or guides change, the /docs/llms.txt and /docs/llms-full.txt endpoints are cached for 1 hour. Call GET /docs/invalidate to purge the cache immediately (provide the DOCS_INVALIDATE_SECRET in production via Authorization: Bearer … or ?secret=…). This endpoint is a maintenance helper — it is not part of the public API surface.