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Check what you have left at Bright Data

Mr. Usage reads Bright Data's documented usage endpoint with your own key and keeps a card refreshed on its own. Main number: available funds in dollars. Details: usage costs pending for the next invoice (shown as spend), plus any credit and any prepayment on the account.

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What the Bright Data card shows

Main number: available funds in dollars. Details: usage costs pending for the next invoice (shown as spend), plus any credit and any prepayment on the account. A yellow "Low" badge appears under 20% left and a red "Nearly out" badge under 5%, with a line of today's readings underneath.

Shows account funds. Bright Data's API does not expose free-tier credits.

What Mr. Usage reads

Call`GET https://api.brightdata.com/customer/balance`
Authenticationheader `Authorization: Bearer`.
Verified againsthttps://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/account-management-api/Get_total_balance_through_API
Anything else contactedNothing. The host is on a per-provider allowlist checked before every request, redirects are off, and the connection is TLS 1.2 or newer.

The app shows you this exact address before you save a key, and docs/SOURCES.md records where each fact came from and when it was read.

Questions

Does checking my Bright Data usage cost credits?

the docs do not say; it is an account balance read, not a proxy or scraper request, and is treated as free.

Where does my Bright Data API key go?

Into your operating system's credential store, under the service name mr-usage: Keychain on macOS, Credential Manager on Windows, the Secret Service on Linux. The app reads it at the moment it calls the vendor, wraps it in a zeroizing type, and drops it. It is never written to a file of the app's own and never sent back to the window.

How often is the card refreshed?

Every 5 minutes by default. Settings lets you pick anything from 1 minute to 24 hours, and changing the interval takes effect from the last poll. There is also a Refresh button on each card, limited to once a minute.

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