Hey everyone,

I’m feeling a bit lost and hoping you can help me clarify how billing works for Claude Pro and Claude Code, I thought they were bundled but now I’m not so sure:

I’m on the $20/month Pro plan, which gives access to Claude on web, desktop, mobile

I started using Claude Code, but I'm confused if it's going to start billing me as pay as you go or limited to my pro plan? and will reset after I hit the limit?

So my question Is Claude Code is included in the Pro plan, or will I get billed extra once I exceed usage?

I installed a tool called claude-monitor and it checks the consumption but I want to have more clarification about this

I'm trying to wrap my head around how Anthropic bills for the Claude API. Their pricing seems straightforward at first glance:

• X $ per million input tokens

• Y $ per million output tokens

But I'm not quite sure how this translates to actual billing. Does Anthropic:

1. Add up all input tokens across all API calls separately?

2. Add up all output tokens across all API calls separately?

3. Then charge based on these total counts?

Or is there more to it that I'm missing?

tl;dr: I am looking for an API that tells me how much credit I have with Anthropic but cannot find one. And I have some questions.. :)

Hi, all. I hope you are having a great day.

I've been using Anthropic APIs for my side project, which so far has been fun.

For an admin dashboard, I am looking for an API to show how much credit I have left with Anthropic, and to my surprise, I cannot find it in the official documentation.

Upon inspecting network calls when visiting Anthropic Console page, I can see that they already have an internal endpoint, which is https://console.anthropic.com/api/organizations/{org-id}/prepaid/credits ( I haven't tried hitting it from my app, but I image they have CORS enabled ).

I also see a few other existing (internal) endpoints that seem to be useful [0] to make public and also bake into client SDK, such as /invoice_balance*,* /invoices*,* and /current_spend. And the below are my questions

1. If billing APIs already exist and I missed, I am terribly sorry. Can someone kindly point me to relevant doc(s) please?

2. Does anyone know if Anthropic plans to release "billing APIs"?

3. Is there a process to request APIs, and perhaps we can vote candidate APIs as a community?

I searched this community first and failed to find a similar question, so I decided to post.

Thanks everyone!

Warm regards

[0] With billing APIs, a few example use cases I can see are

1. dynamically change AI model depending on the remaining balance

2. set alerts based on current usage / remaining balance / invoice

3. maybe, if an app were to be powered by donation, you could show the current credit when asking for donations?