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title: "Viewing AI Usage"
canonical: https://trickest.com/docs/using-the-app/agent/viewing-ai-usage
description: "Open AI usage and read the budget, activity, and limits that matter."
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# Viewing AI Usage

## Open AI usage

Open **Settings > Agent > AI usage**. The page title is **AI usage**.

This is not **Settings > Vault > Plan & usage**. That page is the workspace plan. It does not show Agent model usage.

**AI usage** appears once the workspace can use the Agent. If you only see **Bring your own key**, verify a key first. [Bringing Your Own Key](/docs/using-the-app/agent/bring-your-own-key) is that step. A workspace with [Managed AI](/docs/key-concepts/agent/managed-ai) can open this page without a key.

## Read the budget

When the workspace has an AI budget, **Vault AI budget** shows dollars spent of the dollars granted to this vault, and when the period ends.

**Limit Reached** means the limit shown on that card has been reached.

**No active contract period** means there is no current budget period.

If the section is titled **Your usage limit**, the bar is a cap on your own usage rather than the vault budget.

## Read activity

**Tokens** and **Requests** measure activity for the period. Token counts are split into input and output. They are not the remaining dollar budget.

**Trickest spend** is spend attributed to Trickest-managed usage. It does not include provider-key usage.

Usage through a provider key is billed by that provider. It is separate from Trickest spend. If the workspace used both Trickest models and a provider key, Trickest spend still leaves out the provider's charges. [Bringing Your Own Key](/docs/using-the-app/agent/bring-your-own-key) is where those keys are managed.

**Usage by Model** breaks the same activity down by model.

## Limits

Some workspaces show limits separate from the AI budget.

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_Markdown source of https://trickest.com/docs/using-the-app/agent/viewing-ai-usage._