Summary: Spending notifications alert organization admins when monthly Neon charges on Launch and Scale plans reach 80% and 100% of a configured threshold. Projects continue running and charges accumulate until you raise the threshold or the billing cycle resets. Organization admins set, edit, or disable notifications in the Neon Console or via the Management API.

Get alerts when your organization's Neon spending approaches a threshold you set

What you will learn:

• What spending notifications do
• Who can set them up
• How to enable, edit, and disable notifications in the Console
• How to manage notification thresholds with the Neon Management API
• What happens when the threshold is reached

Related topics

• Manage billing
• Monitor billing and usage
• Cost optimization
• Neon API keys

Spending notifications help you keep track of your organization's Neon spending. When charges approach the threshold you set, organization admins receive email alerts so they can take action before the bill grows further.

Spending notifications are available on the Launch and Scale plans. You can manage them from the Billing page in the Neon Console or with the Neon Management API.

Coming soon: Automatic project suspension

Currently, email alerts are the only available action. Automatic project suspension is coming soon: when the threshold is reached, projects' computes will pause until you raise the threshold or the next monthly billing period begins.

Only organization admins can enable, edit, or disable spending notifications. Other members see the notification threshold in read-only form on the Billing page.

When a spending notification is configured, Neon sends email alerts to organization admins at two thresholds:

• When spending reaches 80% of the threshold
• When spending reaches 100% of the threshold

Neon checks your spending every 15 minutes. Once spending crosses a threshold, an alert email goes out, and reminders continue weekly until you raise the threshold or the billing cycle resets.

1. Navigate to the Neon Console.
2. Select your organization from the profile menu in the top-right of the console.
3. Select Billing from the menu.
4. On the Spending Notifications card, select Enable.
5. In the Enable Spending Notifications dialog, enter a whole-dollar amount.
6. Select Enable.

The Spending Notifications card now shows the current spending and a progress bar toward the threshold.

1. Navigate to the Billing page.
2. On the Spending Notifications card, select Edit.
3. Update the amount and select Save.

You can also open the edit dialog from the over-threshold banner by selecting Manage spending notifications. The banner appears in the Console when spending is approaching the threshold or has reached it.

1. Navigate to the Billing page.
2. On the Spending Notifications card, select Disable.
3. Confirm in the Disable Spending Notifications dialog.

After you disable notifications, no further email alerts are sent and the over-threshold banner no longer appears.

When your organization's monthly charges reach the threshold:

• Admins receive a final email alert.
• A banner appears in the Neon Console showing Threshold reached, with a Manage spending notifications link that opens the edit dialog.

Projects continue to run, and charges continue to accumulate, until you raise the threshold or the billing cycle resets at the start of the next month. Automatic project suspension is coming soon and will stop compute charges at the threshold.

Spending notifications only send alerts; they don't stop usage. If you need Neon to actively suspend computes when a limit is reached, you can set per-project consumption quotas with the Neon API. These work per project and per consumption metric (compute, storage, and data transfer) rather than on total dollar spend. See Configure consumption limits.

Note: A spending notification threshold applies to the organization's total monthly Neon charges across all projects in that organization. If you belong to multiple organizations, set a separate threshold for each.

You can manage spending notifications through the Management API at:

https://console.neon.tech/api/v2/organizations/{org_id}/billing/spending_limit

Replace {org_id} with your organization ID (see Finding your org_id). Authenticate with a personal API key or another allowed credential for the Management API.

Request body (PUT): send spending_limit_cents as a positive integer (monthly threshold in cents; minimum 1). For example, $100.00 per month is 10000. Values 0 and null are rejected; to clear a threshold, call DELETE on the same path (idempotent when no threshold is configured).

Response (GET / PUT 200): the API returns spending_limit_cents, or null when no threshold is set. Alerts at 80% and 100% of the threshold behave the same as for Console-managed notifications; computes are not suspended by this feature.

See the linked API reference pages for response codes, schemas, and Try it examples.

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