> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.paradime.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Budget & Consumption > Track DinoAI credit spend and set monthly allowances across your platform, workspaces, users, and background agents. Budget & Consumption gives admins visibility into [DinoAI credit](/products/dino-ai/dinoai-credits) spend and lets you set monthly allowances (budgets). It works in two levels: * **Platform admins** set the monthly allowance for each workspace * **Workspace admins** decide how to allocate that provided budget across the users in their workspace Use it to understand where credits are going and to keep spend predictable. Budget & Consumption is only available to admins. Setting workspace-level allowances is available to platform admins; allocating a workspace's budget across users is available to workspace admins. ## Accessing Budget & Consumption Budget & Consumption is located in the Paradime **Settings** section under the **Platform** heading. 1. **Navigate to Settings** in your Paradime workspace 2. **Click on "Budget & Consumption"** 3. **Choose a scope**: **Platform** for company-wide spend across every workspace, or **Workspace** for a single workspace's spend with per-user and background-agent allowances Budgets are tracked per calendar month and reset on the 1st of each month. *** ## Platform The Platform view shows company-wide DinoAI spend across every workspace, and the monthly allowance each one runs against. It is available to platform admins. Budget & Consumption Platform view showing company-wide DinoAI spend, budget alerts, the credits-by-workspace chart, and the all-workspaces table ### Overview At the top of the page, two cards summarize the current month: * **This month**: total credits used across every workspace * **Budget alerts**: the number of workspaces at or above 80% of their budget The **DinoAI credits by workspace** chart plots monthly spend, in millions of credits, over the last 12 months so you can spot trends across workspaces. ### Workspaces The **Workspaces** tab is where platform admins set the monthly allowance for each workspace. It lists every workspace with its spend so far this month. For each workspace you can see: * **Credits used**: credits consumed this month * **Progress**: usage relative to the workspace's budget * **Budget (M credits)**: the monthly allowance, in millions of credits. Enter a value and click **Set** to define the allowance for that workspace, or leave it as **no limit** * **Status**: **Metered** means usage is tracked with no cap applied * **View**: open the [Workspace view](#workspace) for that workspace Once a platform admin sets a workspace's allowance here, the workspace admin decides how to distribute it across their users from the [Workspace view](#workspace). ### Users The **Users** tab ranks every user across all workspaces by spend so far this month. For each user you can see their workspace, credits used, whether they draw from a shared pool or a fixed share, their usage relative to their allowance, and their status. *** ## Workspace The Workspace view shows a single workspace's DinoAI spend, with per-user and background-agent allowances. The header shows the workspace name, the current month, and the number of users. Budget & Consumption Workspace view showing the credits-by-agent chart, the monthly DinoAI budget with per-user allocation, and per-user budgets in the Users table ### Monthly credits by agent The **Monthly credits by agent** chart plots the workspace's spend, in millions of credits, over the last 6 months, broken down by agent. ### Monthly DinoAI budget The **Monthly DinoAI budget** panel shows credits used against the workspace's allowance for the month. The allowance is set by a platform admin, so it is labelled **Set by platform admin**. Use **Request more** to ask for a higher allowance. ### Allocation Workspace admins choose how the provided allowance is distributed across the workspace's users: * **Shared pool**: any user draws from the full allowance, first come first served * **Per-user**: each user gets a fixed share. Exhausting it pauses only that user's agents ### Users The **Users** section lets you allocate a monthly budget to each person. For each user you can see credits used, usage relative to their budget, the budget assigned to them (in millions of credits), and a status: * **In budget**: usage is within the allocated budget * **Approaching**: usage is nearing the budget limit * **Metered**: usage is tracked with no cap applied In **Per-user** allocation mode, enter a value and click **Set** to assign a budget to an individual user. ### Agents The **Agents** section applies one combined cap for background agents, plus optional per-agent caps. Enter a value in **Cap (M)** and click **Set** to limit background-agent spend. [Copilot](/products/dino-ai/copilot/index) is never capped. Budgets and caps apply to background agents, so interactive development is not interrupted. *** ## Related * [DinoAI Credits](/products/dino-ai/dinoai-credits) - how credits are calculated and Credit Saver Mode * [Admin Dashboard](/products/dino-ai/admin-dashboard) - organization-wide DinoAI usage analytics ## Related topics - [DinoAI Credits](/products/dino-ai/dinoai-credits.md) - [What is Paradime.io](/index.md) - [Cost connection](/products/settings/connections/cost-connection/index.md) - [Snowflake cost connection](/products/settings/connections/cost-connection/snowflake-connection.md) - [Looker Monitoring](/products/radar/looker-monitoring.md)