# Usage Limits & Overages

How limits work and what happens when you exceed them

## How Limits Work

Each plan includes monthly limits for different workload types. Limits reset on your billing date each month.

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## Checking Your Usage

- Log in to fabric.carmel.so  
- Go to Dashboard or Settings > Usage  
- View usage for each workload type  
- See percentage of monthly limit used

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## What Happens at Your Limit

**Free tier:**  
Jobs stop. You must upgrade to continue.

**Paid plans (without overage enabled):**  
Jobs stop. Set an overage limit to continue.

**Paid plans (with overage enabled):**  
Jobs continue. Usage beyond your plan is billed as overage.

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## Setting an Overage Limit

Control your maximum monthly spend:

- Go to Settings > Billing  
- Find "Overage Limit"  
- Choose a limit:
  - $0 (hard stop at plan limits)  
  - $10, $25, $50, $100, $250, $500  
  - Custom amount (up to $10,000)  
- Save

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## How Overage Billing Works

When you set an overage limit, we pre-authorize that amount on your card

- Jobs continue running even past plan limits  
- At billing cycle end, we charge only what you actually used  
- Pre-authorization is released for the unused amount

**Example:**
- Overage limit: $100  
- Actual overage: $45  
- Charged: $45 (not $100)

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## Overage Rates

When you exceed plan limits:

**Starter (standard rates):**
- Web Scraping: $0.001/request  
- ML Preprocess: $0.02/job  
- ML Train: $0.05/job  
- ML Inference: $0.01/job  
- Image ML: $0.003/image  
- Audio ML: $0.001/sample  
- Custom Workloads: $0.05/run  
- Video Processing: $0.05/min  
- Audio Transcription: $0.02/min

**Pro (10% discount):**  
All rates reduced by 10%

**Enterprise (20% discount):**  
All rates reduced by 20%

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## Pre-Authorization Details

When you set an overage limit:
- We place a hold on your card for that amount  
- This is not a charge, just a hold  
- Pre-authorizations renew each billing cycle  
- If pre-auth fails, you're notified

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## Usage Alerts

Get notified before hitting limits:
- Go to Settings > Notifications  
- Enable usage alerts  
- Receive warnings at 80% and 100% of limits

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## Tips for Managing Usage

**Set a conservative overage limit.** Start low, increase if needed.

**Monitor weekly.** Check your dashboard regularly.

**Consider upgrading.** If overages exceed the cost difference, upgrade your plan.

**Use workflows.** Preset configurations are often more efficient.

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## Usage Carryover

**Unused limits do NOT carry over.** Each billing cycle starts fresh.