What are Limits?

Limits are used to track and optionally control spending. There are two types of Limits, Allow and Block.

• A limit tracks your spending against a defined max amount.
• Each limit can optionally have a threshold, which helps you monitor when spending is approaching the max.
• Allow limits let spending go beyond the max, tracking any excess as overrun.
• Block limits halt spending once the max is exceeded, preventing further usage.

  Note
  Block can only be applied to requests where Pay-i is a proxy.

Simply, a limit is an accumulator with state.

Limits can be applied at any scope in your application: application total spend, cumulative for a use case, per use case instance, request, user, account, etc. Limits are composable and enable you to implement your business requirements in a simple and straightfoward manner.

Limits can be reset, which sets their spend amount back to $0.00 but maintains all prior spending history for review in the Pay-i dashboard.

Summary

Limits can be applied to any application scope you require You can leverage limits to track and compare time-based spend (quarterly spend), restrict a user's usage when they near their budget, or when to change logic executing a use case Instance (switch to a human representative when the chat cost exceeds $1).

More information can be found in limits development documentation.