# Credit balance (GET /v1/credits)

> GET /v1/credits: Credit balance. border.bot API reference (Account).

Source: https://border.bot/docs/api/get-credits

> Documentation index: https://border.bot/llms.txt. Every page is Markdown at its URL + `.md`.

`GET https://api.border.bot/v1/credits`

Requires an API key (`Authorization: Bearer bb_live_…`).

Current balance, lifetime totals and the 20 most recent ledger entries (purchases, usage, refunds).

API key scope: `account`.

## Responses

- `200`: Balance and recent ledger. (`CreditsResponse`)
- `401`: Missing, invalid, revoked or expired API key (`unauthorized`). (`Error`)
- `403`: The API key doesn’t have the `account` scope (`forbidden`, `details.reason: "missing_scope"`). (`Error`)
- `429`: Rate limited (`rate_limited`). Retry after `Retry-After` seconds; `RateLimit` says which limit was hit (`r=0`, `t` seconds until its window ends) and `RateLimit-Policy` its quota. (`Error`)
- `500`: Unexpected error (`internal`). (`Error`)

## Example

```bash
curl -X GET 'https://api.border.bot/v1/credits' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer bb_live_...'
```