# Usage, costs and limits

URL: https://aycode.ai/docs/usage/

Know what each agent costs, how close you are to a limit, and let AyCode wait for you when a limit is hit.

## The usage view

*Screenshot: Verbrauch: spending, tokens, provider limits and your own budgets.*

- `⌘U` opens it. Choose today, 7 days, 30 days or the month.
- Costs in euros or as API value, per day and in total; how much came from the cache; the peak day.
- Side calls (commit messages, goal checks, side questions, quick questions) are counted separately.
- The limits of Codex, Cline, Hermes, Grok, Z.ai and OpenCode with their 5-hour, weekly and monthly windows.
- A dot next to **Verbrauch** in the sidebar warns you from 80 % of a limit on.

## Budgets and subscriptions

Under **Settings → Usage** you set a daily and a monthly budget, a token limit and the exchange rate. Enter what your subscriptions cost per month and AyCode shows what they are worth; it never guesses prices you did not enter.

The projects view shows cost and tokens of the last seven days per project.

## The limit guard

When the limit guard is on (**Settings → General → Limits**, off by default) and a provider hits its limit, the chat waits and continues by itself once the limit is free again. The banner says when and why, with **Jetzt versuchen** (try now), **Nicht mehr warten** (stop waiting) and **Mit <provider> weitermachen**, which moves the chat with its history to another provider.

> With several API key accounts per provider, **Bei Limit Konto wechseln** switches to the next of them instead of waiting.