# Accounts and billing

Query billing accounts, Credit balances, rated usage, transactions, and bills, and inspect existing recharge, payment authorization, and subscription records. These tasks do not include recharge, payment, or subscription write operations.

## Choose a task

| Task | Page | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Inspect accounts and settings | [Query accounts and billing settings](accounts.md) | Find accessible billing accounts, inspect Credit balances and recent spending, and read balance alerts, spending limits, and automatic recharge settings. |
| Analyze rated usage | [Analyze rated usage and costs](usage.md) | Query rated usage records and summaries, analyze costs over time and by business dimension, and inspect AI service usage. |
| Inspect transactions | [Query transaction records](transactions.md) | Query account transactions and consumption aggregated by time window to inspect balance changes and the composition of spending.. |
| Inspect bills and usage | [Query monthly bills and usage line items](bills.md) | View generated monthly bills or query aggregated usage line items for a posting period with existing usage. |
| Inspect recharges | [Query recharge options and orders](recharges.md) | Inspect recharge currencies, channels, and tiers available to an account, and list existing recharge orders. |
| Inspect payment authorizations | [Query payment authorizations](payment-authorizations.md) | Inspect the status and payment limits of existing payment authorizations. |
| Inspect subscriptions | [Query subscription products and records](subscriptions.md) | Inspect available subscription products, prices, and entitlements, and view the periods, status, and entitlements of existing account subscriptions. |

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Query accounts and billing settings <accounts>
Analyze rated usage and costs <usage>
Query transaction records <transactions>
Query monthly bills and usage line items <bills>
Query recharge options and orders <recharges>
Query payment authorizations <payment-authorizations>
Query subscription products and records <subscriptions>
```