curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/usage/character-stats?start_unix=10&end_unix=10&include_workspace_metrics=false&breakdown_type=none&aggregation_interval=hour&aggregation_bucket_size=10&metric=credits' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

# GET /v1/usage/character-stats (ElevenLabs API)
Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03

> Get Characters Usage Metrics (Deprecated)

## Critical Gotchas
* Authentication uses the non-standard `xi-api-key` header, not `Authorization: Bearer`. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.
* Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (`--output speech.mp3`) rather than parsing it.

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/usage/character-stats?start_unix=10&end_unix=10&include_workspace_metrics=false&breakdown_type=none&aggregation_interval=hour&aggregation_bucket_size=10&metric=credits' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| start_unix | query | integer | Yes | UTC Unix timestamp for the start of t... |
| end_unix | query | integer | Yes | UTC Unix timestamp for the end of the... |
| include_workspace_metrics | query | boolean | No | Whether or not to include the statist... |

## Response (200 OK)
{"time":[1738252091000,1739404800000],"usage":{"All":[49,1053]}}

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GET

/v1/usage/character-stats

ElevenLabs API

Get Characters Usage Metrics (Deprecated)

Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03 · upstream hash matched

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Critical gotchas

Authentication uses the non-standard xi-api-key header, not Authorization: Bearer. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.

Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (--output speech.mp3) rather than parsing it.

cURL

curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/usage/character-stats?start_unix=10&end_unix=10&include_workspace_metrics=false&breakdown_type=none&aggregation_interval=hour&aggregation_bucket_size=10&metric=credits' \  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

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Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
start_unix	query	integer	Yes	UTC Unix timestamp for the start of the usage window, in milliseconds. To include the first day of the window, the timestamp should be at 00:00:00 of that day.
end_unix	query	integer	Yes	UTC Unix timestamp for the end of the usage window, in milliseconds. To include the last day of the window, the timestamp should be at 23:59:59 of that day.
include_workspace_metrics	query	boolean	No	Whether or not to include the statistics of the entire workspace.
breakdown_type	query	string	No	How to break down the information. Cannot be "user" if include_workspace_metrics is False.
aggregation_interval	query	string	No	How to aggregate usage data over time. Can be "hour", "day", "week", "month", or "cumulative".
aggregation_bucket_size	query	integer	No	Aggregation bucket size in seconds. Overrides the aggregation interval.
metric	query	string	No	Which metric to aggregate.

Response 200 OK

{
  "time": [
    1738252091000,
    1739404800000
  ],
  "usage": {
    "All": [
      49,
      1053
    ]
  }
}