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title: "Billing Limits"
sidebarTitle: "Billing Limits"
description: "Set billing limits on your Vapi account."
---

You can set billing limits in the billing section of your dashboard.

<Note>
You can access your billing settings at
[dashboard.vapi.ai/billing](https://dashboard.vapi.ai/billing)
</Note>

### Setting a Monthly Billing Limit

In your billing settings you can set a monthly billing limit:

<Frame>
<img src="/static/images/learn/billing/billing-limits.png" />
</Frame>

### Exceeding Billing Limits

Once you have used all of your starter credits, or exceeded your set monthly usage limit, you will start seeing errors in your dashboard & via the API mentioning `Billing Limits Exceeded`.

<Frame caption="Once you have gone over on your monthly billing limits, the API & dashboard will throw billing-related errors.">
<img src="/static/images/learn/billing/billing-limits-exceeded.png" />
</Frame>
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title: "Cost Routing"
sidebarTitle: "Cost Routing"
description: "Learn more about how your Vapi account is billed for provider expenses."
---

<Frame caption="Provider expenses can either end up provider-side, or at-cost in your Vapi account.">
<img src="/static/images/learn/billing/cost-routing.png" />
</Frame>

During calls, requests will be made to different providers in the voice pipeline:

- **transcription providers:** providers conducting speech-to-text
- **model providers:** LLM providers
- **voice providers:** providers conducting text-to-speech
- **telephony providers:** providers like [Twilio](https://www.twilio.com)/[Vonage](https://www.vonage.com) that facilitate phone calls

<Info>
Per-minute telephony costs only occur during inbound/outbound phone calling. Web calls do not
incur this cost.
</Info>

## Where Provider Costs End-up

There are 2 places these charges can end up:

1. **Provider-side:** in the account you have with the provider.
2. **With Vapi:** in your Vapi account.

### Provider-side Billing

If we have [provider keys](/provider-keys) on file for a provider, the cost will be seen directly
in your account with the provider. Vapi will have made the request on your behalf with your provider key.

No charge will be made to your Vapi account.

### Billed with Vapi

If no key is found on-file for the provider, Vapi will make the API request itself (with Vapi's own keys, at Vapi's expense). This expense is then passed on [**at-cost**](/glossary#at-cost) to be billed directly to your Vapi account.

No charge will show up provider-side.

## Billing That "Just Works"

The central idea is that everything is designed to "just work". Whether you are billed provider-side, or on Vapi's side, you will never be charged with any margin for provider fees incurred during calls.

All operational costs would have been incurred anyway.
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"group": "Billing",
"pages": [
"learn/billing/overview",
"learn/billing/cost-routing",
"learn/billing/billing-limits",
"learn/billing/estimating-costs",
"learn/billing/examples"
]
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## Further Reading

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<Card title="Routing Provider Cost" icon="route" iconType="solid" href="/learn/billing/overview">
Learn more about how Vapi bills & routes provider costs.
</Card>
<Card title="Billing Overview" icon="route" iconType="solid" href="/learn/billing/overview">
Learn more about how Vapi bills & routes provider costs.
</Card>
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