# Where your credits went

> Read the Usage page - spending by service, each member, each AI request and its cost breakdown - and see what one chat has spent.
> Source: https://playcode.io/docs/account-and-billing/where-your-credits-went - last reviewed 2026-10-09.

**Settings**, **Usage** shows what the workspace spent its credits on, by service, by member and request by request. To see what one chat has spent, open the project menu: its foot shows **Spent in this chat**.

## Do it yourself

1. Choose the name of your workspace at the top of the left panel, then **Settings…**.
2. Under the workspace, choose **Usage**. The page opens on **This Month**.
3. Pick a period: **Today**, **Yesterday**, **This Week**, **This Month**, **Last Month**, **This Year** or **All Time**. The top line shows the credits used and the number of **Messages**; a workspace with more than one member also shows **Active members**.
4. Read **Spending by service**. It has a row for each kind of spending, with its credits:
   - **AI**, "chat + agents": the agent's work, with the number of **Messages**.
   - A project marked **AI Gateway**: the AI requests that project's app made, with their calls and tokens.
   - **Email**, "billing cycle": "sent" and "included" for this billing cycle. Only recipients past the included amount cost credits.
   - A Cloud app: **Compute** (hours awake times the price per hour), **Disk** and **Traffic**.
5. Read **By member**: each person's credits, requests and last activity.
6. Under **Recent Activity**, choose a request to open its **Cost breakdown**: **Input**, **Output**, **Cache write** and **Cache read**, each with its tokens and credits. Choose **Load more** for older requests.

To see what one chat spent, open the chat in its project and open the project menu. Its foot shows **Spent in this chat** and **Context**, how full the chat is. When a chat gets long, it adds: "Long chats reply slower and cost more - start a new chat for the next task."

## If it doesn't work

### The page shows "All AI usage in this workspace is billed to" a name, and no numbers

Only the Admins of a workspace see its usage. Ask one of them, or open your own Personal workspace.

### "Could not load usage. Please try again."

Choose **Reload**.

### "No usage data for the selected period"

Nothing was spent in that period. Pick a longer one, like **This Month** or **All Time**.

### Today's Cloud app costs are missing

Playcode adds up a Cloud app's computer costs once a day, at 03:10 UTC, and they appear under the day they were added up. Look again tomorrow.

### One message you sent shows several requests

The agent works in steps, and each step is its own request with its own cost. That is why **Messages** counts more than what you typed.

### One request cost a lot

Open it in **Recent Activity**. When **Cache write** is the largest part, the app explains that a one-time copy of your prompt was saved, and that follow-up messages reuse it for less. See [Credits went faster than expected](/docs/help/credits-went-faster) for the usual causes and fixes.

## Limits

- **Usage** does not group by chat: use **Spent in this chat** for one chat.
- **Email** always shows the current billing cycle, whatever period you pick.
- The agent cannot tell you what earlier work cost or how many credits are left: it does not see them.
- To set a monthly email line or a task budget, see [Credits and balance](/docs/account-and-billing/credits-and-balance).