> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.orq.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Budgets and spending controls

> Control AI spending across your organization with per-identity budgets, API key rate limits, and workspace credits to manage costs at every level.

**orq.ai** gives you multiple layers of budget control so you can manage AI spending at every level of your organization: across the whole workspace, per API key, and per individual user.

## Credits

Credits are the primary spending balance for your workspace. All model calls made through **orq.ai** consume credits based on token usage and model pricing. When your balance reaches zero, requests are blocked until credits are added.

Manage your credits, configure auto top-up, and download invoices from the **AI Router** section in **AI Studio**:

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  Manage credits, payment methods, auto top-up, and transaction history from the **AI Router** section in **AI Studio**.
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## API Key Limits

Each API key can have optional spending limits to control how much a specific integration, team, or environment can consume. Limits reset on a configurable schedule.

Three types of limit are available per key:

* **Cost Limit**: a maximum spend in USD per reset period. Requests are rejected with a `429` once the limit is reached.
* **Token Limit**: a maximum number of tokens per reset period.
* **Requests/Min**: a fixed rate cap on requests per minute, independent of the reset period.

The **Reset Limit Period** (daily, weekly, or monthly) applies to Cost and Token limits. Requests/Min is always a rolling 60-second window.

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  Configure cost, token, and rate limits when creating or editing an API key in the **AI Router**.
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## Identity Budgets

Identities represent individual users or entities making requests through your application. You can assign a budget to each identity to cap how much they can spend over a given period, making it easy to enforce per-user spending policies.

Budget periods available: **Daily**, **Weekly**, **Monthly**, **Yearly**.

<Card title="Identity budgets" icon="user" href="/docs/analytics/identity#budget-control">
  Set and manage per-identity budgets from the **Identities** section in **AI Studio**.
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