#### Plans and usage

# Spending caps: monthly extra-usage caps and alerts

A monthly additional usage limit (spending cap) controls how much paid Additional Usage you can use in a calendar month. It's available on individual plans and self-serve team plans, and it's separate from your prepaid credit and your Auto Top-up settings.

## Four separate controls

1. **Shared weekly pool:** usage included with each paid seat for eligible first-party (Grok) models, shared across supported Grok and Cursor products
2. **Prepaid balance:** prepaid credit that third-party models in Cursor draw from first use (at API list prices), and that pays for Additional Usage after the shared weekly pool is used
3. **Monthly additional usage limit:** the maximum paid Additional Usage the team can consume during the month
4. **Auto Top-up:** off unless you turn it on. When it's on, it adds credit when your balance drops below the threshold you choose. Manual top-ups are separate.

## When Additional Usage stops

After a seat uses its shared weekly pool, Additional Usage is paid from the team's prepaid balance. Additional Usage stops when either:

* The prepaid balance is empty, or
* The team's monthly extra-usage cap is reached

Adding more money does not raise the monthly extra-usage cap. A team can therefore have money left in its balance and still be blocked from additional extra usage.

## Self-serve teams

* **Self-serve teams:** admins set one monthly additional usage limit for the whole team, either a fixed amount or an amount per seat.

## Alerts

Where available, spend alerts warn you when extra usage reaches a threshold you set. Alerts do **not** stop usage. To put a hard stop on paid Additional Usage, set a monthly additional usage limit.

Check your current settings to see which alert and delivery options are available.

## Where to manage

After you switch, manage prepaid credit, Auto Top-up, and your monthly additional usage limit under **Additional usage credits** on [grok.com/dashboard](https://grok.com/dashboard).

## Related

* [Usage limits](/x-subscription/usage-limits)
* [Extra usage credits and top-ups](/x-subscription/extra-usage)
* [Managing The X Subscription](/x-subscription/manage)
* [Team plans: workspaces, seats, and invites](/x-subscription/team-plans)
* [Prepaid balance and automatic top-ups](/x-subscription/prepaid-balance)