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The Daily Usage Limit lets you set a per-day ceiling on how much bandwidth your residential proxies can consume. It’s ideal for pacing a plan across a month, sharing a plan across projects, or guarding against a runaway script eating your whole balance overnight. By default no limit is set — your proxies run freely until the plan’s bandwidth is used up.

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Setting a limit

1

Open Settings

Go to Dashboard → Settings. The Daily Usage Limit card lists each of your active residential plans.
2

Enter a daily cap

Type the number of GB per day (minimum 1 GB) for the plan and click Save. The card immediately shows your used today / limit for that plan.
3

Raise or remove it any time

Change the number and Save again to raise or lower the cap, or click Remove limit to lift it entirely.

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What happens when the limit is reached

When a plan hits its daily cap, its proxies pause automatically. While paused you’ll see a message on the card:
Proxies paused — daily limit reached. They resume at midnight UTC, or raise/remove the limit to resume now.
You have two ways to resume:
  • Wait — usage resets at midnight UTC and proxies resume on their own.
  • Raise or remove the limit — proxies resume immediately, no waiting.
The daily counter resets at 00:00 UTC, not at your local midnight. If you set a cap of, say, 5 GB/day, that 5 GB is measured against the UTC day.
The Daily Usage Limit is currently available on Quantum Premium residential plans. It appears in Settings only for plans that support automatic pausing — other residential products won’t show a card.