Retrieve usage & quota

API reference for retrieving usage and quota with the DeepL API.

Retrieve usage information within the current billing period together with the corresponding account limits. The /usageendpoint returns:

• Consumed characters in the current billing period

• Character limits that apply to the current billing period (e.g. if Cost Control is set, it will be reflected in the character_limit field in the response)

The value in the character_countfield includes both text and document translations as well as text improvement (DeepL API for Write) characters. Characters are counted based on the source text length in Unicode code points, so for example "A", "Δ", "あ", and "深" are each counted as a single character.

We also provide a spec that is auto-generated from DeepL's OpenAPI file. You can find it here.

cURL

The example below uses our API Pro endpoint https://api.deepl.com. If you're an API Free user, remember to update your requests to use https://api-free.deepl.com instead.

Example request: check usage and limits

curl -X GET 'https://api.deepl.com/v2/usage' \
--header 'Authorization: DeepL-Auth-Key [yourAuthKey]'

Example response

{
  "character_count": 180118,
  "character_limit": 1250000
}

HTTP Request

The example below uses our API Pro endpoint https://api.deepl.com. If you're an API Free user, remember to update your requests to use https://api-free.deepl.com instead.

Example request: check usage and limits

GET /v2/usage HTTP/2
Host: api.deepl.com
Authorization: DeepL-Auth-Key [yourAuthKey] 
User-Agent: YourApp/1.2.3

Example response

{
  "character_count": 180118,
  "character_limit": 1250000
}

If you are looking for general API limitations, please see here.