--- title: AI Gateway Generation Lookup and Usage API product: vercel url: /docs/ai-gateway/observability-and-spend/usage canonical_url: "https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/observability-and-spend/usage" last_updated: 2026-09-11 type: conceptual prerequisites: - /docs/ai-gateway/observability-and-spend - /docs/ai-gateway related: - /docs/ai-gateway/sdks-and-apis/rest-api - /docs/ai-gateway/observability-and-spend/custom-reporting - /docs/ai-gateway/observability-and-spend/logs - /docs/ai-gateway/observability-and-spend/trace-drains summary: Look up an AI Gateway generation by ID to inspect its provider, latency, token usage, cost, and finish reason, or check your credit balance. install_vercel_plugin: npx plugins add vercel/vercel-plugin --- # AI Gateway Generation Lookup and Usage API AI Gateway records every generation it serves. Look up a generation by ID to inspect its provider, latency, token usage, cost, and finish reason. You can also check your team's credit balance and lifetime spend. ## Related pages > **For AI agents:** Follow these links to understand how this page connects to the rest of the Vercel ecosystem. For the full cross-link map (inbound, outbound, prerequisites, and semantic neighbors), see the .graph.md link below. - [AI Gateway logs now have a dedicated page](https://vercel.com/changelog/ai-gateway-logs?from=related&source_path=%2Fdocs%2Fai-gateway%2Fobservability-and-spend%2Fusage&source_site=vercel-docs&relationship=related) - [AI Gateway now supports asynchronous video generation](https://vercel.com/changelog/ai-gateway-now-supports-asynchronous-video-generation?from=related&source_path=%2Fdocs%2Fai-gateway%2Fobservability-and-spend%2Fusage&source_site=vercel-docs&relationship=related) - [AI Gateway FAQ](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/faq?from=related&source_path=%2Fdocs%2Fai-gateway%2Fobservability-and-spend%2Fusage&source_site=vercel-docs&relationship=related) — Answers to common questions about AI Gateway, including request errors, pricing and markup, SDK and API compatibility, m - [AI Gateway Pricing](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing?from=related&source_path=%2Fdocs%2Fai-gateway%2Fobservability-and-spend%2Fusage&source_site=vercel-docs&relationship=related) — Understand AI Gateway token pricing, free and paid credits, BYOK costs, add-on charges, and payment fees. Manage credit - [AI Gateway Observability](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/observability-and-spend/observability?from=related&source_path=%2Fdocs%2Fai-gateway%2Fobservability-and-spend%2Fusage&source_site=vercel-docs&relationship=related) — Monitor AI Gateway requests in the Vercel dashboard. Inspect token usage, latency, spend, and logs at team, project, and - [Getting Started with AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/getting-started?from=related&source_path=%2Fdocs%2Fai-gateway%2Fobservability-and-spend%2Fusage&source_site=vercel-docs&relationship=related) — Set up AI Gateway with a coding agent, route the agent through AI Gateway, or make your first request with cURL, TypeScr - [AI SDK with AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/sdks-and-apis/ai-sdk?from=related&source_path=%2Fdocs%2Fai-gateway%2Fobservability-and-spend%2Fusage&source_site=vercel-docs&relationship=related) — Build AI-powered TypeScript applications using the AI SDK with AI Gateway for unified access to 200+ models. Full cross-link map for this page: [/docs/ai-gateway/observability-and-spend/usage.graph.md](/docs/ai-gateway/observability-and-spend/usage.graph.md?from=related&source_path=%2Fdocs%2Fai-gateway%2Fobservability-and-spend%2Fusage&source_site=vercel-docs&relationship=graph) ## View generations in the dashboard Open the [**AI Gateway** tab](https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai-gateway\&title=Go+to+AI+Gateway) in your Vercel dashboard. The top of the page shows your current AI Gateway Credits balance and recent spend; the **Generations** view shows individual requests with cost, latency, and token usage. ## Generation and credit APIs Use the REST API to look up individual generations or monitor your balance: - [`GET /v1/generation`](/docs/ai-gateway/sdks-and-apis/rest-api#look-up-a-generation) returns cost, latency, finish reason, and token usage for a specific generation. - [`GET /v1/credits`](/docs/ai-gateway/sdks-and-apis/rest-api#check-credit-balance) returns the team's remaining credit balance and lifetime spend. > **💡 Note:** **Generation IDs:** Generation IDs are returned on every chat completion > response as the [`id`](https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/object#chat/object-id) > field, and on streaming responses are injected into the first content chunk so > you can capture them before the stream completes. They are also surfaced via > `providerMetadata.gateway.generationId` in the AI SDK. For aggregated spend across a date range (grouped by user, model, tag, provider, and more), see [Custom Reporting](/docs/ai-gateway/observability-and-spend/custom-reporting). ## Look up a generation with the AI SDK Install AI SDK 7 and set `AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY` before running this script. It tags a request, captures its generation ID, waits for usage ingestion, and prints the available provider, latency, token, and routing fields: ```typescript filename="trace-generation.ts" import { gateway, generateText } from 'ai'; const result = await generateText({ model: 'anthropic/claude-sonnet-5', prompt: 'Explain quantum computing in two sentences.', providerOptions: { gateway: { tags: ['feature:chat'], }, }, }); const gatewayMetadata = result.providerMetadata?.gateway as | { generationId?: string; routing?: unknown } | undefined; const generationId = gatewayMetadata?.generationId; if (typeof generationId !== 'string') { throw new Error('Missing generation ID'); } async function getGeneration() { for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 10; attempt++) { try { return await gateway.getGenerationInfo({ id: generationId }); } catch (error) { const statusCode = typeof error === 'object' && error !== null && 'statusCode' in error && typeof error.statusCode === 'number' ? error.statusCode : undefined; if (statusCode !== 404 || attempt === 9) throw error; await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 2000)); } } throw new Error('Generation lookup failed'); } const generation = await getGeneration(); console.log( JSON.stringify( { generationId, provider: generation.providerName, model: generation.model, timeToFirstTokenMs: generation.latency, generationTimeMs: generation.generationTime, promptTokens: generation.promptTokens, completionTokens: generation.completionTokens, reasoningTokens: generation.reasoningTokens, cachedTokens: generation.cachedTokens, finishReason: generation.finishReason, routing: gatewayMetadata?.routing, }, null, 2, ), ); ``` Usage events are ingested asynchronously, so the lookup retries HTTP `404` responses while the record becomes available. Check the error's `statusCode` instead of matching its message, which the SDK can normalize. The `routing` object includes provider attempts and any attempt errors returned in the response metadata. Generation lookup returns completed generation details. To inspect a request that fails before returning response metadata, use [AI Gateway request logs](/docs/ai-gateway/observability-and-spend/logs) or [trace drains](/docs/ai-gateway/observability-and-spend/trace-drains). The AI SDK maps the common generation fields to camelCase. Use the [REST response](/docs/ai-gateway/sdks-and-apis/rest-api#look-up-a-generation) when you need its additional cost breakdown, including `market_cost`, `surcharge_cost`, and `gateway_cost`. --- [View full sitemap](/docs/sitemap)