Mr. Usage › DataForSEO

Check your DataForSEO balance

Mr. Usage reads DataForSEO's documented usage endpoint with your own key and keeps a card refreshed on its own. Main number: account balance in dollars. Details: how much you have deposited in total, how much you spent today, and the daily and per-minute spending limits. Paste your API login and password as one key in the form login:password.

Install Mr. Usage GitHub repository

What the DataForSEO card shows

Main number: account balance in dollars. Details: how much you have deposited in total, how much you spent today, and the daily and per-minute spending limits. Paste your API login and password as one key in the form login:password. A yellow "Low" badge appears under 20% left and a red "Nearly out" badge under 5%, with a line of today's readings underneath.

Paste the API login and password as one key in the form login:password. The balance call is free.

What Mr. Usage reads

Call`GET https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/appendix/user_data`
Authenticationpaste `login:password`; sent as `Authorization: Basic` (base64).
Verified againsthttps://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/appendix/user_data/
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 DataForSEO usage cost credits?

the docs say the account is not charged for this call.

Where does my DataForSEO 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.

Other providers