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API Call Volume

The total number of API requests made by customers within a period.

Formula

Count of API requests in period

How to measure

Aggregate API request logs across all authenticated customer accounts for the defined period.

Why track it

For developer-facing and usage-based products, API call volume is often the most direct proxy for real customer usage and expansion potential.

Example

A developer platform tracks a customer's API calls growing from 10,000 to 500,000 per month as they scale their own product.

API Call Volume — Growth metric · Cofounderbase