What counts toward your API-call limit

Your plan includes a monthly allowance of API calls. In short: every request your workloads send through the G8KEPR gateway counts, while dashboard browsing, billing actions, and blocked-before-forwarding requests generally do not.

What counts

A request counts toward your monthly allowance when it is a billable gateway call — an inbound request that G8KEPR accepts, inspects, and forwards to a model or MCP provider on your behalf.

• ▸AI Gateway requests — each call your application sends to a chat, completion, or embedding endpoint routed through the gateway.
• ▸MCP tool calls proxied through G8KEPR to a connected server.
• ▸Streaming responses — a streamed completion is a single call, not one per chunk or token.
• ▸Retries you initiate — if your client re-sends a request, each attempt is a separate call.

What does not count

• ▸Signing in, browsing the dashboard, or viewing reports.
• ▸Billing and account actions (updating a plan, downloading invoices).
• ▸Managing sensors, keys, policies, or team settings.
• ▸Requests blocked by a security policy before they leave the gateway — a threat that G8KEPR stops is not forwarded, so it isn't billed as a gateway call.
• ▸Health checks and internal platform heartbeats.

Where to see your usage

1. 1.Open Account → Billing from the dashboard.
2. 2.Review API calls used against your plan allowance for the current cycle.
3. 3.Open the Cost Tracking view to break usage down by key, provider, or workload.

Approaching or exceeding your limit

• ▸Allowances reset at the start of each monthly billing cycle.
• ▸If you enabled overage, calls above your allowance continue and are billed per the overage rate on your plan.
• ▸If overage is off, requests above the allowance may be rate-limited until the next cycle or an upgrade.

To raise your allowance, upgrade from Account → Billing, or contact sales for Enterprise volumes. See also Understanding your billing cycle.