# Spend limits **Not live yet:** Spend limits are not live yet. This page describes them as designed. You can cap what the API spends. - **Daily** and **monthly** limits, set in the app. - A **low-balance threshold**. When “$X left” falls below it, you get a `balance.low` event and a banner in the app. It is your own setting, and it starts empty. ## Lower by API, raise in the app `PATCH /v1/balance/settings` can **lower** a limit. It can never raise one. A raise by API answers `403 limit_raise_requires_dashboard`, with a link to the app. So a leaked key cannot lift your caps. ## At the limit What happens depends on the product. - **Creator data.** A billed call that would pass the daily or monthly data limit is refused. It answers `402 spend_limit_reached`, and nothing is charged. - **Video production.** Nothing is refused. A video slot that would pass the daily limit or the monthly commit limit does not open. The store waits and shows `awaiting_payment` until the limit has room. See [Errors](/errors/#spend_limit_reached).