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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Spend limits and budgets

> Cap what your organization spends each month, overall and per project.

Owners and Admins can set two limits:

| Limit | Applies to |
| - | - |
| **Monthly spend limit** | Everything your organization generates in a month |
| **Project monthly budget** | Everything generated in one project in a month |

Both count usage this calendar month (UTC), including work running now, and
reset on the 1st. Generations that run on your organization's own provider
account, if ZeroGen has set one up, are billed by the provider and don't
count.

A generation that costs more than its estimate can take usage a little past a
limit. The next one is refused. If yours is refused, ask an Owner or Admin.

## Monthly spend limit

In **Settings › Billing**, Owners and Admins can set a monthly limit for the
whole organization, in whole dollars.

* With **Stop work when the limit is reached** on, a new generation is refused
  if it would take this month's usage past the limit. Turn it off to let work
  continue past the limit.
* **Alert at** sets up to five percentages of the limit, 80% by default. The
  Billing page marks each one this month's usage has passed. ZeroGen doesn't
  send alert emails.

![The Monthly spend limit settings: no limit set, \$5.41 used this month, a Monthly limit field, Stop work when the limit is reached checked, and an alert at 80%.](https://mintcdn.com/zero-gen/m4I7fPs1rAXZSMjU/images/foundations/spend-limit.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=m4I7fPs1rAXZSMjU\&q=85\&s=150078fb01340eae6a2ff6bb7e749497)

## Project monthly budget

In a project's settings, Owners and Admins can set a monthly budget for that
project. Everyone can see what the project has spent this month. A new
generation there is refused if it would take the project's usage this month
past the budget. There's no setting to only warn.

![A project's Monthly budget settings: no budget set, \$4.54 spent this month, a Monthly budget field in whole dollars and a Set budget button.](https://mintcdn.com/zero-gen/m4I7fPs1rAXZSMjU/images/foundations/project-budget.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=m4I7fPs1rAXZSMjU\&q=85\&s=a66afec80cdcb59e8221e23d208cab71)

The organization's spend limit still applies to a project with its own budget.


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