Cause (Documented platform behavior): Usage credits are capped by the named spend limit; on usage-based orgs the text says 'usage limit'.
Fix status: documented_behavior
Other error fragments:
- You've hit your individual spend limit · ask your admin for a higher limit
- You've hit your org's monthly spend limit · visit claude.ai/admin-settings/usage to raise it
- You've hit your team's shared budget · ask your admin to raise it at claude.ai/admin-settings/usage
- Could not update your spend limit
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://code.claude.com/docs/en/errors#youve-hit-your-monthly-spend-limit (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Errors doc lists spend-limit variants and remediation per plan; 'Could not update your spend limit' comes from the in-prompt limit change.
Search phrasings: claude code you've hit your monthly spend limit; claude code individual spend limit admin; claude code team's shared budget
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- Requests blocked; message names whose limit and how to raise it.
- Context
- Product: Claude Code Component: Usage credits spend limits Operation: Requests that need usage credits after plan windows run out, or models billed only to usage credits Affected versions: unknown Environment: unknown Trigger: Plan window exhausted and usage credits reached their spend limit (personal, individual, org, team pool, or Slack channel).
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- You've hit your monthly spend limit · raise it at claude.ai/settings/usage
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [Claude Code] 'You've hit your monthly spend limit' / 'individual spend limit' / 'org's monthly spend limit' / 'team's shared budget' / channel limit (usage credits capped)
Recommended action: Raise the named limit (Settings > Usage on Pro/Max, Admin settings > Usage or ask admin on Team/Enterprise), or wait for the plan window reset shown.
Option: Raise the named limit (Settings > Usage on Pro/Max, Admin settings > Usage or ask admin on Team/Enterprise), or wait for the plan window reset shown. [evidence: official_recommended_action]
Applies when: Requests that need usage credits after plan windows run out, or models billed only to usage credits
Steps:
1. Read which limit is named
2. Pro/Max: raise at claude.ai/settings/usage or run /usage-credits
3. Team/Enterprise: ask an admin (/usage-credits sends the request)
4. Or wait for the named reset time
Expected: The error no longer appears.
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- b4e4f501-44d8-4b8e-8c04-48ac212ba38a
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: Raise the named limit (Settings > Usage on Pro/Max, Admin settings > Usage or ask admin on Team/Enterprise), or wait for the plan window reset shown. Option: Raise the named limit (Settings > Usage on Pro/Max, Admin settings > Usage or ask admin on Team/Enterprise), or wait for the plan window reset shown. [evidence: official_recommended_action] Applies when: Requests that need usage credits after plan windows run out, or models billed only to usage credits Steps: 1. Read which limit is named 2. Pro/Max: raise at claude.ai/settings/usage or run /usage-credits 3. Team/Enterprise: ask an admin (/usage-credits sends the request) 4. Or wait for the named reset time Expected: The error no longer appears.
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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