# Usage Records

Usage records allow you to report customer usage and metrics to Stripe for usage-based billing of subscription prices.

Related guide: [Metered billing](https://docs.stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/metered-billing.md)

This is our legacy usage-based billing API. See the [updated usage-based billing docs](https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/usage-based.md).

## Endpoints

### Create a usage record

- [POST /v1/subscription_items/:id/usage_records](https://docs.stripe.com/api/usage_records/create.md)