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title: "Budgets and limits"
description: "Limit spending, tokens, and requests for a model and for each member."
---

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# Budgets and limits

Limits keep a model from consuming more than you intend. There are two levels: the model as a whole,
and each member's access to it.

## Where to set them

- **Model total** — on the model's **Quota** tab.
- **Per member** — in the **Members** dialog when adding, inviting, or editing a member.

A limit left blank means no limit for that item. An empty budget does not mean zero; it means
unbounded.

## Kinds of limit

| Limit | Unit | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Budget | USD | Based on reported request cost, not recomputed from the model's prices. |
| Tokens | tokens | Counts input and output tokens. |
| Requests | requests | Counts inference requests. |

Each limit has its own period. When a period ends, its counters start again; the console shows the
reset time when a period is in use. A model's limits apply on top of the limits of each member: a
member's budget is not a separate balance, but an additional ceiling. A request must fit within both.

## Call protection

The **Quota** tab also lists concurrency, request rate, and maximum output for the model. These are
separate from budgets: they bound how a request is served rather than how much it may cost.

## Changing limits

Lowering a limit does not clear what has already been spent, and raising one does not reset a counter.
If a budget is already exhausted, raising the budget takes effect immediately; requests are accepted
again as soon as the new limit leaves room.

## When a limit is reached

- Requests are refused once a limit is reached, with a `429` response.
- The model card and the detail page show spent against limit; the progress bar turns red at the limit
  and yellow as it approaches.
- For a periodic limit, the page shows when the period resets.
- If the gateway does not report a cost or usage figure, the console shows it as unknown rather than
  zero, so a missing number never looks like free usage.

## Usage reporting is per model

Each model's limits are independent, even when two models point at the same upstream server or account.
Spending on one does not count against another.

## Next

- [Usage](https://docs.noket.dev/console/usage/)
- [Logs](https://docs.noket.dev/console/logs/)

Source: https://docs.noket.dev/console/models/budget/index.mdx