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# Set a monthly usage budget with alerts and optional hard stop

> Set a monthly cap on your usage spend, choose alert points, and optionally pause products at 100% to avoid going over budget.

You can now set a usage budget to cap and monitor your monthly usage spend from the dashboard. Choose a monthly dollar amount, pick the points at which you want to be alerted, and decide whether the budget only warns you or pauses your products when you reach it.

A budget tracks your variable usage cost, not fixed subscription fees, and covers your whole organization. It resets at the start of each billing cycle.

What's new:

* **Monthly budget**: set a dollar ceiling on your usage each cycle, from $10 to $50,000.

* **Alert points**: get an email at each percentage you choose (for example 50%, 80%, and 100%) as your usage crosses it.

* **Enforcement modes**: keep it alert-only (the default) to watch spend without touching service, or turn on a hard stop that pauses usage-based products at 100%.

* **Mid-cycle adjustments**: raise your budget to restore a paused service immediately, or lower it down to a safe floor just above what you have already spent.

* **Always accessible**: even under a hard stop, signing in, viewing invoices, updating your payment method, and changing your budget are never blocked.

Learn more in [Set a usage budget](/docs/account-and-billing/set-a-usage-budget).