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

# Monitor usage and billing

> Understand request cost, performance, and safety outcomes.

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Open **Usage** in the console after making requests. Review spend, remaining balance, token counts, latency, model mix, prompt-cache hits, and safety outcomes.

Each request can include more than one billable component: upstream model inference, SERV reasoning generation, prompt-guard evaluation, audit or repair work, and shadow-agent validation. A cache hit avoids a new SERV reasoning-generation call, but the upstream model still runs and is billed.

Change one variable at a time: model, reasoning effort, prompt, tools, schema, or safety feature. Keep an evaluation set and compare task success, failure rate, latency, and total cost.

Open **Billing** from the account menu to manage credits and auto top-up. See [Models](../models) for model pricing.

If your balance cannot cover the request’s estimated ceiling, SERV may reject it before billable inference begins. Use a reasonable output-token ceiling and monitor `finish_reason` or the endpoint’s stop reason for truncation.
