# Live usage

Live minutes used and remaining this month for the project.


```http
GET https://social-publish-api.onrender.com/v1/live/usage
```

```bash tab="cURL"
curl https://social-publish-api.onrender.com/v1/live/usage -H "x-access-key: $RELAYCAST_API_KEY"
```

```json title="Response 200"
{ "data": { "usedMinutes": 47, "includedMinutes": 120, "remainingMinutes": 73 } }
```

Minutes are counted per stream, rounded up, for streams started this calendar month (UTC). Sending one stream to several platforms doesn't use extra minutes. When `remainingMinutes` reaches 0, new streams are rejected with `402 live_minutes_exhausted`, and running streams end.