# Budgets | Modal Docs

- **URL:** https://modal.com/docs/guide/budgets
- **Summary:** Modal budgets let you cap spend at both the Workspace and Environment level:

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Budgets
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Modal budgets let you cap spend at both the Workspace and Environment level:

*   **Workspace budget**: a monthly cap for total Workspace spend across the Workspace.
*   **Environment budget**: a monthly cap for compute spend in a specific Environment.

Only Workspace **Owners** and **Managers** can set, edit, or remove budgets. See [Workspace roles](https://modal.com/docs/guide/workspaces#administering-workspace-membership)
 for role details.

When to use each budget 

*   Use a **Workspace budget** when you want one overall monthly cap for the Workspace.
*   Add **Environment budgets** when multiple teams or workloads share a Workspace and need independent spend guardrails.
*   Keep both enabled when you want per-Environment isolation without losing a Workspace-wide hard cap.

How limits apply 

Workspace and Environment budgets are enforced together:

*   The Workspace budget is the hard outer cap for the entire Workspace.
*   If an Environment has no explicit budget, it inherits the Workspace effective limit.
*   You cannot set an Environment budget to a value that exceeds the Workspace effective cap.
*   Environment budgets do not need to sum to the Workspace budget.

Example: if your Workspace budget is `$50`, setting Environment budgets of `$30` and `$40` does not raise the Workspace cap. The Workspace can still hit `$50` first, without hitting either Environment budget.

Workspace budgets 

Workspace budgets cap total spend for the Workspace during the current billing cycle.

You can set, edit, or remove a Workspace budget on the [Usage & Billing](https://modal.com/settings/usage)
 page.

The maximum budget you can set depends on prior successful charges for the Workspace. If incremental usage charges succeed, that maximum can increase.

Environment budgets 

Environment budgets cap **compute usage** for a single Environment within the same billing cycle. Note that this means it does not include all Workspace-level charges (for example, storage and reservations), so Environment budget usage is not a full invoice total by itself.

You can set, edit, or remove Environment budgets on the [Workspace Management → Environments](https://modal.com/settings/workspace-management/environments)
 page.

[Budgets](https://modal.com/docs/guide/budgets#budgets)
[When to use each budget](https://modal.com/docs/guide/budgets#when-to-use-each-budget)
[How limits apply](https://modal.com/docs/guide/budgets#how-limits-apply)
[Workspace budgets](https://modal.com/docs/guide/budgets#workspace-budgets)
[Environment budgets](https://modal.com/docs/guide/budgets#environment-budgets)