Check OpenRouter API key usage, spend limits, account credits, and per-request cost programmatically
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Documented steps
GET https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/key (Authorization: Bearer <inference key>) → data about THAT key: label, limit (USD cap, null = unlimited), limit_remaining, usage, usage_daily / usage_weekly / usage_monthly, is_free_tier, limit_reset.
GET https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/credits → account-level totals: data.total_credits and data.total_usage; remaining = total_credits - total_usage.
For per-request cost auditing: capture the generation id from a completion response, then GET https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/generation?id=<generation id> → total_cost, native_tokens_prompt, native_tokens_completion, native_tokens_cached, native_tokens_reasoning, latency, provider, finish_reason.
Use is_free_tier from /api/v1/key to decide whether free-model daily caps of 50 (vs 1000) requests apply to this account.
Docs: https://openrouter.ai/docs/api_reference/limits and https://openrouter.ai/docs/api/api-reference/credits/get-remaining-credits
Known gotchas
/api/v1/key describes only the key you authenticate with; /api/v1/credits is account-wide — don't conflate per-key limit_remaining with account credit balance.
If /api/v1/credits rejects your key, retry with a management/provisioning-scoped key — docs distinguish inference keys from management keys for account-level endpoints.
The generation endpoint may 404 for a second or two right after a completion — poll briefly before treating it as missing.
Rate-limit numbers in the /key response body are deprecated in favor of X-RateLimit-* response headers.
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