---
title: "KindOfUsage"
description: "one kind of metered usage with its unit, its price basis and its provider: network egress, proxy bytes, model tokens, embedding calls, image generation, document storage, lakehouse bytes, browser minutes, search queries, connector calls, downloads"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/kindofusage
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# KindOfUsage

one kind of metered usage with its unit, its price basis and its provider: network egress, proxy bytes, model tokens, embedding calls, image generation, document storage, lakehouse bytes, browser minutes, search queries, connector calls, downloads

[figure: KindOfUsage is a row at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | row |
| scope | platform |
| key | its name |
| store | postgres |
| family | operations |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `text` | yes |  |
| `unit` | `text` | yes | bytes, tokens, calls, minutes, queries, images |
| `provider` | `text` | no | a provider row: DeepSeek, Modal, the proxy provider, the object store |
| `price_basis` | `one of list price \| the provider's bill \| estimated` | yes |  |
| `ceiling` | [Cost](/concepts/cost) | no | of the receive family |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns KindOfUsage directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.