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# Daily Usage Limit

> Cap how much residential data your proxies can use per day. When the cap is hit, your proxies pause automatically until the next day — protecting you from burning through a plan faster than you intended.

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.

## Setting a limit

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Settings">
    Go to **Dashboard → Settings**. The **Daily Usage Limit** card lists each of your active residential plans.
  </Step>

  <Step title="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.
  </Step>

  <Step title="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.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## 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.

<Note>
  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.
</Note>

<Info>
  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.
</Info>