Can I get Bright Data spend per day from the API?

Not as a series. Derive it from how much the balance drops each day, ignoring top-ups.

Scraping

How to get your Bright Data API usage, balance and spend programmatically

Yes. GET https://api.brightdata.com/customer/balance returns your account balance and pending balance in USD.

What the Bright Data API exposes

Signal	Bright Data
Balance	Yes. GET /customer/balance (balance, pending_balance)
Spend history	No
Cost breakdown	No
Plan and quota	No
Cost on each response	No
Rate-limit headers	None
Credential	API key

Call it yourself

Credential. A Bright Data API token.

Balance

curl https://api.brightdata.com/customer/balance \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BRIGHTDATA_API_TOKEN"

{ "balance": 412.67, "pending_balance": 18.2 }

Trimmed to the fields Argus reads. Values are examples.

Gotchas

Usage is deducted daily from the deposit, so the balance moves in steps, not per request.
Insufficient funds suspends service. Your remaining funds are kept.
Per-zone cost (GET /zone/cost) and bandwidth (GET /zone/bw) exist. Argus reads the account balance today.

How Bright Data charges

Prepaid usage-based (per GB / per 1k requests / per record), deducted daily from a deposited balance. Optional committed monthly plans cut unit rates.

Plan	Monthly price
Pay-as-you-go	Contact sales
$499/mo	$499

Free allowance. 5,000 a month. ~$7.50 credits; excludes proxies.

At zero. 402. Insufficient funds → service suspended (funds retained). Auto-recharge below 85% of commitment.

100 requests per second, per org. 1,000 req/min unfunded.

Or let Argus track it

Paste the key once. Argus keeps the ledger, and your coding agent reads it through the MCP server.

Reads the Bright Data balance every hour and keeps the series, so you get burn per day (top-ups never count as negative spend) and days until it hits zero.
With the SDK, itemizes each call by endpoint and prices it at Bright Data's per-operation rates.
Emails you on low balance, days to zero, a spend spike, or projected overage.
Hands all of it to your coding agent over MCP, so it can ask what a run cost or how much runway is left without leaving the editor.

> what has brightdata cost today, and how long until it runs out?

get_overview       → brightdata: mtd spend, burn per day, days to zero
get_request_costs  { "provider": "brightdata", "limit": 25 }
get_advisories     → credits_low, spend_spike, rate_limit_low …

Questions

Does Bright Data have an API for its balance?: Yes. GET https://api.brightdata.com/customer/balance returns your account balance and pending balance in USD.
Can I get Bright Data spend per day from the API?: Not as a series. Derive it from how much the balance drops each day, ignoring top-ups.
What happens when Bright Data credits run out?: Requests fail with HTTP 402. Insufficient funds → service suspended (funds retained). Auto-recharge below 85% of commitment. Auto-recharge is available.
What key does Argus need for Bright Data?: A Bright Data API token.

Check API credit balance programmatically

The balance endpoint, auth header and response field for every major metered API, and the ones that only show a balance in the console.

Every balance endpoint

The balance call for each provider, side by side.

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