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Pretty meters what your chats cost in AI usage and compares it against a monthly budget. When the budget is gone, new requests stop until the month rolls over or an admin raises it.

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Where to watch it

Open the settings drawer and go to Usage. The panel shows one line and a bar. Spend comes first, then the budget it counts against:
Underneath, either “Resets on the 1st of each month” or, once you are out, “Monthly limit reached — new requests are paused”. The bar turns amber past 80% and red at 100%, and a Monthly limit reached banner appears in the pane. The figure is your own spend for the calendar month, measured against the per-person budget your workspace sets. A colleague’s heavy week does not eat into your allowance, and yours does not eat into theirs.

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Hitting the limit

Chat error stating the monthly AI limit has been reached

What a member sees once the allowance is gone.

Send a message with nothing left and the chat answers with:
You’ve reached your monthly AI limit. Please contact an administrator to raise it.
Nothing is lost. The chat, its history and its attachments are all still there. It will not run another turn. Two ways forward:
  • Wait for the reset. The counter starts again on the 1st.
  • Ask an admin to raise the budget. There is no budget field in workspace settings, so an admin raises it by writing to support@make-pretty.com with your workspace name and the figure you want.
Workspaces running on their own provider key are billed by that provider instead, and this cap does not apply to them at all. See Model providers.

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What consumes the budget

Cost tracks how much work the model does, so the expensive turns are the ones with a lot to read or a lot to produce.

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Spending less

The single biggest saving. A chat that built a market-sizing slide is dead weight when you move on to the appendix, and every subsequent turn pays to carry it. New Chat costs nothing.
Extract the ten relevant pages rather than attaching the whole report. If you only need one table, paste the table.
If three slides out of twenty are wrong, ask for those three. Re-running the whole deck redoes the seventeen that were already fine, and may change them.
A vague brief costs a draft, a correction and a re-draft. Say the audience, the message and the constraint up front. See Prompting.
High capability earns its cost on a dense slide built from a source document. It is wasted on “shorten this bullet”.
Check Usage before a big build, not after. Assembling a full deck from a brief is the most expensive thing Pretty does, and it is unpleasant to have it stop halfway.