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AI Usage > Credits used

Written by Tom Williams

Dataset: AI Usage

Entity: AI Usage Measurement

Field ID: credits_used

Type: Number

Description: The number of metered AI credits consumed. This is a consumption unit, not a currency amount, and only providers that meter in credits report it.

Source: App

Transformation logic: N/A

App Mapping

GitHub Copilot

ai_credits_used, on per-user day total records only - GitHub publishes no credit breakdown

Anthropic Claude (coming soon)

N/A

Cursor (coming soon)

N/A

OpenAI Platform (coming soon)

N/A - OpenAI Platform meters in tokens

OpenAI Codex (coming soon)

credits, per user and per client

Reporting Use Cases

The Credits used field is the metering unit for the providers that do not meter in tokens. For OpenAI Codex it is the only volume measure available at all.

  • Consumption against allowance: Credits are what a Copilot or Codex plan is actually consumed against, so this is the field to chart against an entitlement.

  • Heaviest consumers: Group by actor_username over aggregation_level = USER records to find who is consuming the allowance.

  • Not money: Credits are a consumption unit. No currency amount is carried in this dataset.

  • Credits will understate Copilot billing: Copilot web chat and GitHub Mobile consume credits but are excluded from usage metrics, so this figure is a floor rather than a total.

  • Never compare credits across providers: A Copilot credit and a Codex credit are unrelated units. Do not sum or compare them.

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