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How Per-Member Spend Limits Work in TeamAI

Give every member their own monthly spend limit, set limits for groups, see who's close to their limit, and handle requests for more.

Written by Abdul Samad

What Are Per-Member Spend Limits?

Per-member spend limits cap how much each person in your organization can spend on AI each month. Every member gets their own limit. It is not a shared pool, so one busy person, or one agent running hard, can't use up the budget for everyone else.

Important: Per-member limits are rolling out to Enterprise organizations and aren't available on every Enterprise account yet. They work alongside your organization's Monthly Limit and Spend per Chat, which are explained in How Spend Limits Work in TeamAI.


How It Works

  • Each member has their own limit: If the default is $50, every member can spend up to $50. The amount is not split between people.

  • Three levels: You can set a default for everyone, a limit for a group, and a limit for one specific person.

  • All usage counts: A member's spend includes every message from the start of the month, including usage covered by your plan's included credits.

  • One limit across your organization: The limit covers every workspace the member uses in your organization.

  • Monthly reset: Spend resets automatically on your billing cycle date.

  • Everyone is included: Owners and admins have limits too.

Which Limit Applies to a Member

When more than one limit could apply, TeamAI uses the first one that exists, in this order:

  1. Individual limit: a limit set for that one person. This always wins.

  2. Group limit: the limit of a group the member belongs to. If they are in more than one group with a limit, the higher group limit applies. You can change this to the lower one (see below).

  3. Default limit per member: the organization-wide default.

  4. No limit: if none of the above is set, the member can spend without a personal limit.

To see where a member's limit comes from, go to the By member tab. The Group spend limit column shows the group name, or Organization default.


How to Set It Up

Who can do this: organization owners can open every tab of the Spend Limits page. Admins can open it too and go straight to the per-member settings; they don't see the Organization or Per chat tabs. Admins can manage limits and requests for everyone except themselves: an owner sets an admin's own limit and answers their requests. Owners and admins can create and manage groups.


Set a Default Limit for Every Member

  1. Go to your Organization Admin panel

  2. Click Spend Limits in the sidebar

  3. Open the Per member tab

  4. Under Default limit per member, enter a dollar amount

  5. Check the line under the field. It shows how many members are already over that amount right now.

  6. Click Save

$0 and No limit are different. Setting the limit to $0 blocks every member straight away. To go back to unlimited, click Remove limit instead.

Seeing a note that starts with "Incomplete"? Tracking started partway through the current billing period, so the spend shown is lower than the real total. A limit based on those figures may be too low.


Create a Group and Give It a Limit

First, create the group and add people:

  1. In Organization Admin, click Groups in the sidebar

  2. Click New group, enter a name, and click Create group

  3. Click Members next to the group, add people (or click Add everyone), then click Done

Then give the group a limit:

  1. Go to Spend Limits, open the Per member tab, then the By group/tier tab

  2. Click Set limit next to the group

  3. Enter the Monthly limit per member and click Save

Each member of the group gets the full amount. For example, a $100 limit on a group of 10 people lets each of them spend up to $100.

Set a Limit for One Person

  1. Go to Spend Limits and open the Per member tab

  2. Open the By member tab and find the person

  3. Click Set limit (or Edit)

  4. Enter an amount and click Save

An individual limit overrides any group the person is in. To take it away, open the same dialog and click Remove override.

Choose Which Group Limit Wins

If people belong to several groups, go to Spend Limits → Per member and find Multi-group spend limit under Spending defaults. Choose Higher group limit (the default) or Lower group limit. The change applies straight away.

See Who Is Close to Their Limit

On the Per member tab, two tags above the member table show how many people are near their limit:

  • At limit (red): members who have reached their limit and can't send new messages.

  • Above 80% (amber): members who have used 80% or more of their limit.

A tag only appears when someone is in that group.

Filter the List

  1. Go to Spend Limits and open the Per member tab

  2. Click the at limit or above 80% tag

  3. The table now shows only those members, with whoever is furthest over their limit first

Search still works inside the filter. To see everyone again, click the tag again or click Clear filter.

What the Labels Mean

  • At limit (red) next to a member's spend: they have reached their limit.

  • A percentage (amber), such as 86%: how much of their limit they have used, shown from 80% up.

Members under 80% have no label. The percentage never goes above 100%: someone who has spent slightly more than their limit shows At limit.

What Members See

  • At 75% and 95% of their limit: a message appears above the chat box, such as "You've used 75% of your monthly limit." Members can dismiss it. It shows a percentage, not a dollar amount.

  • At their limit: the message changes to "You've reached your monthly spend limit." It can't be dismissed. New messages are not sent, and a response that is running when the limit is reached stops.

  • Their usage: the See your usage link opens Settings → Activity. The Your usage limit card shows how much they have spent, their limit, the percentage used, and when it resets.

Members are never sent to billing. Only the people who manage your organization can change a limit.

Requests for a Higher Limit

You can let members ask for more when they reach their limit. This is off by default.

Turn On Requests

  1. Go to Spend Limits and open the Per member tab

  2. Turn on Limit increase requests

How a Member Asks

Once a member reaches their limit, the Your usage limit card on their Activity page shows Ask for a higher limit. They don't enter an amount. You decide how much to give.

How to Respond

  1. Go to Spend Limits and open the Per member tab

  2. Pending requests appear at the top, showing each member's current limit, how much they have spent, and when they asked

  3. Click Set new limit and enter an amount, or click Decline

  • Set new limit gives the member an individual limit. It stays in place every month until you change or remove it.

  • Decline leaves their limit as it is. They can't ask again for 30 days.

  • The member gets an email either way.

  • Admins can answer other members' requests. An owner answers an admin's own request.

Note: you aren't emailed each time a new request comes in. Pending requests show at the top of the Per member tab, and the daily spend digest says how many are waiting on the days it is sent.


Daily Spend Digest

TeamAI can email your organization's owners and admins once a day when members are at or near their limit. It is on by default. Nothing is sent on days when no one has reached 80% of their limit.

The email includes:

  • How many members are at their limit, and how many are above 80%

  • The names of up to three members in each group, and how close the above-80% members are

  • How many members are waiting for an answer on a higher limit

  • A Review spend limits button that opens the Per member tab, already filtered to those members

It never includes dollar amounts or email addresses. If a member has no name set, the email shows the first part of their email address, before the @.

Turn the Digest Off or On

  1. Go to Spend Limits and open the Per member tab

  2. Turn Daily spend digest off or on

The setting applies to everyone who receives the email.

How Per-Member Limits Work With Other Limits

Limit

What it caps

What it counts

Monthly Limit

Your whole organization or workspace

Usage beyond your included credits

Spend per Chat

A single conversation

All usage

Per-member limit

One person, across your organization

All usage

All three apply at the same time. Whichever one is reached first stops the message.

What Counts Toward a Member's Limit

  • Their chats, including chats with agents

  • Testing an agent

  • Work that an agent hands off to a subagent during their chats

  • API requests made with an API key that belongs to them

Conversations with your embedded chatbots do not count. Those use chatbot credits instead. See How to Purchase and Manage Chatbot Credits.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is a group limit shared between the people in the group?

No. Every member of the group can spend up to the group's limit on their own.

Why does a member show spend when our Monthly Limit still shows $0.00?

The Monthly Limit only counts usage beyond your included credits. Per-member limits count all usage from the first message of the month, so a member's spend goes up even while your organization is inside its included credits.

Do owners and admins have limits?

Yes. The default, group, and individual limits apply to everyone in the organization, whatever their role.

Can admins change their own limit?

No. Admins can set limits for other members, but an owner sets an admin's own limit and answers any request they make for more.

What happens when someone leaves the organization?

They are removed from their groups, and their individual limit and any pending request are removed too. If they rejoin in the same month, what they already spent still counts.

When does a member's spend reset?

On your organization's billing cycle date each month. Members can see the exact date on their Activity page.

I don't see the Per member tab. Why?

Per-member limits are rolling out to Enterprise organizations and aren't available on every Enterprise account yet. Owners see every tab of the Spend Limits page. Admins see only the per-member settings, without the other tabs. Members can't open the page. If you're an owner or admin and don't see the per-member settings, contact support.

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