Overage Renders

Overage renders allow you to continue rendering beyond your plan's monthly or annual limit without interruption. When enabled, you'll be charged a small fee per additional render instead of hitting a hard limit.

How It Works

By default, when you reach your plan's render limit, API requests will fail and rendering stops. With overage renders enabled, you can continue rendering seamlessly:

• Pay-per-render: You're charged a small fee per additional render beyond your plan limit
• Uninterrupted service: No downtime or failed API requests when you exceed your plan
• Flexible scaling: Perfect for handling traffic spikes or seasonal demand

Image vs Video Overage Rates

Overage billing differs between image and video renders:

For example, generating a 10-second video during overage would consume 150 overage renders (10 × 15). This is higher than the standard in-plan rate of 8 renders per second because video generation requires more processing resources.

Enabling Overage Renders

Navigate to Workspace Settings > Billing & Usage to configure overage settings:

You'll see two options:

1. Stop Rendering (Default)

API requests will fail once you've used all your monthly/annual renders. You'll need to upgrade your plan or wait for your billing cycle to reset.

2. Continue with Overage Charges

Keep rendering beyond your plan limit. You'll be charged per additional render based on your plan's overage rate.

Setting Spending Limits

To control your overage costs, you can set two types of limits:

Max Overage Renders

Set a cap on the number of additional renders allowed. For example, setting this to 5,000 means rendering will stop after 5,000 overage renders.

Max Overage Spend ($)

Set a maximum dollar amount you're willing to spend on overages. For example, $50.00 limits your total overage charges to that amount.

Important: Rendering will stop when either limit is reached first. If you don't set any limits, overage charges can accumulate without restriction.

Overage Billing

• Overage charges appear on your next invoice
• You can track current overage usage in real-time on the Billing & Usage page
• Quick increase buttons (+500, +1k, +2k renders or +$10, +$50, +$100) let you adjust limits when reached

Use Cases

Overage renders are ideal for:

• Traffic spikes: Handle unexpected increases in API usage
• Seasonal demand: Scale up during peak periods without upgrading
• Testing & development: Avoid interruptions while building integrations
• Cost control: Pay only for what you use instead of upgrading to a higher tier

Example Scenarios

Scenario 1: Small Image Overage

• Plan: 10,000 renders/month
• Overage rate: $0.011 per render
• Usage: 12,000 image renders
• Overage cost: $22.00 (2,000 × $0.011)

Scenario 2: Video Overage

• Plan: 10,000 renders/month
• Overage rate: $0.011 per render
• Video overage rate: 15 renders per second
• Usage: 10,000 image renders + 30 seconds of video
• Video overage renders: 450 (30 × 15)
• Overage cost: $4.95 (450 × $0.011)

Scenario 3: With Spending Limit

• Plan: 50,000 renders/month
• Overage rate: $0.008 per render
• Max overage spend: $50.00
• Maximum additional renders: 6,250 (before hitting $50 limit)
• Total possible renders: 56,250

Scenario 4: Mixed Image & Video with Render Limit

• Plan: 100,000 renders/month
• Overage rate: $0.008 per render
• Max overage renders: 10,000
• Usage: 100,000 in-plan + 5,000 image overages + 60 seconds video
• Video overage renders: 900 (60 × 15)
• Total overage renders: 5,900
• Overage cost: $47.20 (5,900 × $0.008)
• Remaining overage capacity: 4,100 renders

Managing Overage Settings

Only workspace owners can configure overage settings. Team members and collaborators can view overage usage but cannot modify the settings.

To disable overage renders, simply switch back to "Stop rendering when plan limit is reached" in your Billing & Usage settings.