> For AI agents: the complete Sanity documentation index is available at [https://www.sanity.io/docs/llms.txt](https://www.sanity.io/docs/llms.txt).

# Spending alerts

Get notified when your organization's estimated monthly overage reaches an amount you choose.

Spending alerts tell you when the estimated overage on your [organization plan](https://www.sanity.io/docs/platform-management/spending-alerts) reaches a dollar amount you set. An alert sends an email and a notification in the Sanity Dashboard. It never stops usage, and it does not change your spending limits.

## How spending alerts work

- You save one or more amounts in whole US dollars. Each amount is a separate alert. An organization can have up to 10 alerts. To add another, delete one first.
- Sanity estimates your organization's overage for the current calendar month: usage above the quotas included in your organization plan, priced at the plan's overage rates. The base plan price is not included. Projects on their own plans are not included.
- When the estimated overage reaches an amount, Sanity emails the organization's administrators and billing managers, and the email address in the organization's billing details. Administrators and billing managers also see the alert in their Sanity Dashboard notifications.
- Each alert sends once per calendar month (UTC). It resets at the start of the next month. If your overage reaches the amount again next month, you are alerted again.

An amount of $0 means "tell me as soon as any resource goes over its included quota." Resources with no overage price don't trigger it.

Usage is metered periodically. Some resources are metered every few minutes, others once an hour or once a day, so an alert can arrive some time after the overage is reached. If the overage is already above the amount when you save it, the alert is sent within a few minutes.

The alert names the organization, the amount you set, and the estimated overage for the month so far. That is the same estimate Manage shows on the Spending alerts page. It is not your invoice total. The estimate is rounded to the nearest dollar, so a $0 alert can arrive while Manage still shows $0. The alert then shows the overage as less than $1.

## Plans that support spending alerts

Spending alerts only fire on organization plans that bill overage, such as Growth and Enterprise. On the Free plan and the Growth trial, usage stops at the included quota, so there is no overage to alert on.

Unless your organization has an Enterprise contract, its organization plan follows the highest plan among its projects. For example, an organization with one Growth project is on the Growth organization plan.

To get overage billing instead of a hard stop, upgrade a project to Growth. See [Change your plan](https://www.sanity.io/docs/platform-management/plans-and-payments), or [compare plans](https://www.sanity.io/pricing).

## Set up a spending alert

You need the **Administrator** or **Billing manager** role in the organization. Other members can't open **Billing**. Spending alerts require an [organization plan](https://www.sanity.io/docs/platform-management/spending-alerts) that bills overage.

To add a spending alert:

1. In Manage, select your organization.
2. In the sidebar, select **Billing › Spending alerts**.
3. Select **Add alert**.
4. In **Alert amount (USD)**, enter a whole US dollar amount of $0 or more.
5. Select **Save**.

The page shows the estimated overage for the current month and the status of each alert: **Watching** until it sends, then **Sent** with the date for the rest of the month.

To change an amount, select **Edit** on the alert. The changed alert can send again in the same month if the new amount is reached. To stop an alert, select **Delete**, then **Delete alert** to confirm.

## Spending alerts and spending limits

Both are set per organization under **Billing** in Manage, but they do different things:

|  | Spending alerts | Spending limits |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What it does | Notifies you when estimated overage reaches an amount | Pauses a feature when its spending reaches a cap |
| What it covers | All metered resources on your organization plan | AI credits |
| Effect on usage | None | AI features pause until the next month or until you raise the limit |

Use both: set a [spending limit](https://www.sanity.io/docs/platform-management/how-ai-credits-work) to put a hard cap on AI spend, and set spending alerts to hear about overage across the whole plan before it grows.

## What spending alerts don't do

- They don't block or pause usage.
- They don't cover projects on their own plans.
- They don't alert on a percentage of a quota or on a forecast. The quota emails at 80% and 100% for plans without overage, described in [Plans and payments](https://www.sanity.io/docs/platform-management/plans-and-payments), keep working as before.
- They don't send to Slack or webhooks.



## Related changelog entries

Entries are listed newest first; each link points to the full entry as markdown. Follow one when you need to know what changed, when, or why — for example, to summarize recent updates, explain behavior that differs from older documentation, or check whether a fix has shipped.

- [Manage v2026-10-19: Spending alerts for organization overage](https://www.sanity.io/docs/changelog/d83f535b-dfe2-4906-a0be-335738e63d8e.md) — October 19, 2026