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Why is there a difference between the usage I can see in my Analytics and what I am being charged?

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This is expected. Your Analytics dashboard and your billing figures count different things.

  • Analytics counts searches, which are aggregated to reflect user intent. A user typing "iphone" sends the queries "i", "ip", "iph", … "iphone"; Analytics groups those into a single search. Aggregation is based on edit distance, a 30-second window, and user ID — see Query aggregation and processing.
  • Billing counts every individual search request sent, with no aggregation.

So the billed figure will normally be larger, and on a search-as-you-type implementation it is often several times larger.

Two further differences to be aware of:

  • Requests sent with analytics set to false are excluded from Analytics but are still billed.
  • Analytics reports per index. The Usage page aggregates across all indices in the application, including multi-query traffic that cannot be attributed to a single index.

Your billed figures are in API Monitoring > Usage.

For the full explanation, including the cases where the two differ even without search-as-you-type, see Why are the search request numbers in my Billing and Analytics pages different?

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