Document the Billing API

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12-18-2023 04:04 PM
BecaDeveloper
New Contributor II

Hi there, Contrary to what is stated in the product page, ArcGIS Platform billing is opaque and confusing.  It is difficult to get a clear breakdown of costs per API key, and even the costs that are returned are not consistent.  I have cobbled together a workflow by adapting the scripts and postman collections referenced here https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-platform-developers-ques/managing-api-keys-at-an-organizational... and here https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-platform-developers-ques/tracking-and-exporting-api-usage-by-qu...

When I summarize the costs in the json by features and by totals the values are different, which one is correct? I am not sure why for different usage types like for example feature queries, I get results returned in bytes and megabytes, but the numbers do not appear to match?

Can we please get all billing and resource use APIs fully documented so we can break down incurred costs by API key accurately and consistently and understand what we are seeing when we get the json back.  Without full and clear documentation it is very confusing.

We use different API keys for different purposes, and need to clearly understand which costs are from which API key.

Regards,

Marc

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MariaOrth_alta4

Thank you for the post. We have exactly the same need and would like to evaluate the cost per API key.

I have also tried to calculate the costs based on the information about the layer and, like you, come up with values that do not match the billing.

More transparency in the billing would be urgently needed here, as well as the possibility to query the usage/storage costs per API key via API.