📊 How to Check Your Usage & Quotas

Check your Search Atlas usage, quotas, and balances at any time — either on the billing page in your account or through an MCP-connected AI assistant. This article shows you both methods and explains what the OTTO Sites quota log can and cannot tell you.

📋 What You Can Check

Search Atlas uses several types of limits:

• Product-specific quotas — used by features like OTTO Sites, Site Explorer lookups, Keyword Magic Tool / Keyword Research, Press Releases, and Cloud Stack.
• Universal Credits (UC) — a shared balance drawn on across multiple features.
• Hyperdrive Credits (HDC) — consumed by features such as Press Releases and Cloud Stacks. Note that HDC spend may be deducted without appearing in detailed usage logs.

Your balance view may reflect more than one of these types, so review each category that applies to your account. Depending on the method you choose, you can see current quota usage, remaining balance, and usage history.

Key Terms

• Allocated — your monthly or annual quota limit.
• Consumed — how much you have used so far.
• Remaining — your allocated amount minus what you have consumed.

🧾 Check OTTO Sites Quota Usage on the Billing Page

Your account includes a quota log on the billing page, where you can see how much OTTO Sites quota you have consumed.

1. Open your Search Atlas account and go to the top-right corner (avatar) → Billing → Plans & Top-ups (Billing).
2. Locate the Activity Log tab in Billing .
3. Review the OTTO Sites quota consumed for the period in the Activity Log tab .

Important: the quota log shows how much OTTO Sites quota was consumed, but it does not record where the quota was used. There is no per-project breakdown of consumption in the log. You'll see your total OTTO Sites quota usage, which confirms how much of your allocation remains.

⚙️ Check Your Quota With an MCP Assistant

If you use an MCP-connected AI assistant, you can ask it to retrieve your quota data directly.

1. Open your MCP-connected AI assistant.
2. Ask for your quota — for example, Check my Search Atlas quota or Show my usage and remaining credits.
3. The assistant returns your total quota used and quota remaining.

You'll receive your current quota figures without changing any account settings.

Note: Quota data for some products is retrieved from separate services, so an MCP assistant may not return a complete, consolidated view across every feature. For the most reliable OTTO Sites figures, use the billing page, and verify any unexpected results in your account dashboard.

💳 Check Your Balance With an MCP Assistant

1. Ask your assistant: Show my account balance.
2. The assistant returns your available credits or remaining usage capacity.

This balance may reflect product-specific quotas, Universal Credits, and Hyperdrive Credits, so review each category that applies to you.

📈 Check Your Usage History With an MCP Assistant

1. Ask your assistant: Show my usage history or What actions have consumed my credits?
2. The assistant returns historical usage data — which actions consumed quota, when usage occurred, and how your credits were used.

Usage history availability may vary by product type (for example, OTTO, AI Visibility (formerly LLM Visibility), and Site Explorer). Coverage for all quota categories is being expanded as the Universal Credits system rolls out.

🛠️ If Your Quota Doesn't Match Your Plan, Billing, or Recent Purchases

Several customers have reported displayed quotas that don't match their plan, billing, or recent purchases. If your quota looks wrong, try the following:

1. Refresh the billing page and reload your account.
2. Check your billing history to confirm the add-on slots or credits you purchased.
3. Confirm whether a plan change or renewal date has recently passed, which can cause quotas to temporarily misalign.
4. If the numbers still don't match, contact support with your purchase confirmation so the team can verify and correct the discrepancy.

⚠️ Important Notes

Keep these points in mind when reviewing your usage:

• Checking usage and quota is a read-only action. It does not consume Search Atlas quota — only AI assistant tokens.
• Some MCP endpoints are not yet publicly available. An ACCESS_DENIED response does not always mean your quota is exhausted; certain endpoints may be restricted regardless of your plan's balance. If you receive ACCESS_DENIED while your dashboard shows available quota, contact support to verify endpoint availability.
• OTTO Sites quotas must be removed separately from OTTO projects. Removing a project does not cancel the associated quota charge — review your OTTO Sites quota allocations independently to avoid unexpected charges.
• During batch operations such as OTTO schema generation, quota exhaustion can cause an entire batch to be dropped rather than partially completed. If output is missing after a batch run, check your quota usage to confirm whether you ran out of quota.
• Keyword Magic Tool and Keyword Research quotas: Viewing previously generated reports in your history also consumes quota. Only generate new research when you need fresh data.
• If your displayed OTTO quota does not match what you purchased or see in billing, contact support — there is a known issue where quotas can become misaligned after plan changes.
• If your monthly quota has not reset on the expected date, this is a known issue — contact support to manually reset.
• Hyperdrive Credit (HDC) spend for Press Releases and Cloud Stacks is deducted but may not appear in detailed logs, so it can be hard to audit. Track these features' usage separately if you need a precise record.

🎯 You now know how to view your OTTO Sites quota consumption on the billing page and how to check quotas, balances, and usage history through an MCP assistant. Remember the billing log shows how much quota you used, not which project used it — and remove unused OTTO Sites quotas separately to avoid surprise charges.