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title: Explain Usage
link: https://ampcode.com/news/explain-usage
source: ampcode-com
published: 2026-08-21T00:00:00Z
updated: 2026-08-21T00:00:00Z
first_seen: 2026-10-03T23:09:50.514863041Z
summary: 'You can now ask Puck about your token, credit, and orb usage. Try questions like: Which threads used the most tokens today? Orb time? Which models did I use the most in my 5 most expensive threads today? In my monorepo, based on my latest threads, can I use a smaller orb size or would that make stuff too slow? Is it orbin'' time? To the millisecond, how much orbin'' time have I had in my threads from the last 3 hours? Puck reads your personal usage and per-thread usage to answer these questions for you. Just ask Puck, or click Explain Usage on those pages. You can also run amp usage --details and amp threads usage <thread-id> --details to get the data yourself, or to make a cool visualization of your Amp usage in an orb portal.'
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You can now [ask Puck](https://ampcode.com/puck) about your token, credit, and orb usage.

Try questions like:

- Which threads used the most tokens today? Orb time?
- Which models did I use the most in my 5 most expensive threads today?
- In my monorepo, based on my latest threads, can I use a smaller orb size or would that make stuff too slow?
- Is it orbin' time? To the millisecond, how much orbin' time have I had in my threads from the last 3 hours?

Puck reads your [personal usage](https://ampcode.com/settings/usage) and per-thread usage to answer these questions for you. Just ask Puck, or click **Explain Usage** on those pages.

You can also run `amp usage --details` and `amp threads usage <thread-id> --details` to get the data yourself, or to make a cool visualization of your Amp usage in an [orb portal](https://ampcode.com/manual/orbs#portals).