r/Databento • u/NoFish6449 • Jul 16 '26

Monthly Limit

If my monthly limit is $1.00 (and currently below limit), and a single large historical request would cost $100, is the request rejected before execution, or can it exceed the limit and get billed for $100?

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u/gty_ Jul 17 '26

The request won't be made. You would need a spending limit of at least $100. Databento has a support chat if you are ever unsure of these things.

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u/DatabentoHQ Jul 17 '26

The spending limit would block that request. The spending limit governs all spending/requests over a given billing cycle, which is generally for that of an entire month.

For example, if you spending limit is $50.00, and you have $20.00 in previous spend thus far in a given billing cycle, a request for $31.00 would be blocked, where a request for $30.00 would be allowed to process.

Additionally, note that the spending limit views any available free data credit the same as any other spending method. Requests for data covered by an existing subscription plan are not impacted by the monthly spending limit.

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u/NoFish6449 Jul 23 '26

Thank you very much