Serverless
Usage

Time-bucketed, aggregated serverless compute usage for your own account — the machine-seconds your deployed serverless apps consumed, priced with your machine prices and net of discounts. This matches the serverless portion of the dashboard usage view. Unlike /v1/models/usage (which reports model API endpoint calls), this reports the sdk_billing_event compute spend of the apps you run on fal Serverless. Results are always scoped to the apps you own.

Filtering by app:

  • app — exact match on one or more app names (comma-separated or repeated, up to 50): ?app=my-app-dev,my-app-prod. Use the value exactly as it appears in the response app field.
  • search — case-insensitive substring match on the app name, for when you know the name but not the exact environment/version suffix: ?search=my-app returns every my-app* variant.
  • Provide both to AND them. Omit both to return every app you own — useful for discovering the exact app names to filter on.

Expansions:

  • time_series: usage grouped into time buckets (default)
  • summary: a single aggregate row per app × machine type across the window

Notes:

  • Each row is machine-seconds (unit is always "second"); surge and non-surge usage of the same app/machine come back as separate rows (is_surge), so sum across them for a per-app total.
  • Time-series bucket timestamps are returned in the timezone you request (ISO 8601 with offset, e.g. 2025-01-15T00:00:00-05:00), which also controls how usage is grouped into buckets.

Common Use Cases:

  • Track your serverless apps' compute consumption and cost over time
  • Break down spend per app, environment, and machine type
  • Export usage to your own billing/observability tooling

Required permissions: billing:usage:read. Key presets that include them: BILLING, READONLY, FULL. See key permissions.

get/serverless/usage

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.fal.ai/v1
  • URL
    https://api.fal.ai/v1/serverless/usage
  • Auth
    API key in header Authorization

Query parameters

limitinteger

Maximum number of items to return. Actual maximum depends on query type and expansion parameters.

Example:50
cursorstring

Pagination cursor from previous response. Encodes the page number.

Example:Mg==
string date-time
OR
string
string date-time
OR
string
timezonestring

Timezone for date aggregation and boundaries. All timestamps in responses are in UTC, but this controls how dates are bucketed.

Example:UTC
timeframe'minute' | 'hour' | 'day' | 'week' | 'month'

Aggregation timeframe for timeseries data (auto-detected from date range if not specified). Auto-detection uses: minute (<2h), hour (<2d), day (<64d), week (<183d), month (>=183d).

Example:day
bound_to_timeframe'true' | 'false'

Whether to adjust start/end dates to align with timeframe boundaries and use exclusive end. Defaults to true. When true, dates are aligned to the start of the timeframe period (e.g., start of day) and end is made exclusive (e.g., start of next day). When false, uses exact dates provided.

Example:true
string
OR
string[]
searchstring

Case-insensitive substring match on the app name — returns every app whose name contains this term (e.g. search=autohdr matches all autohdr-* apps across environments). Combined with app via AND when both are given.

Example:autohdr-raw-to-jpg
string
OR
string[]

Response

Usage data retrieved successfully

next_cursorstring nullable required

Cursor for the next page of results, null if no more pages

has_moreboolean required

Boolean indicating if more results are available (convenience field derived from next_cursor)

Changes

    • info

      the endpoint scheme security readonlyApiKey was added to the API

    • info

      the endpoint scheme security adminApiKey was removed from the API

    • info

      response property summary/items/net_unit_price deprecated

    • info

      response property time_series/items/results/items/net_unit_price deprecated