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# spend_limit_reached

> Compute is paused because the workspace hit its spend limit. Raise or remove the budget to resume.

<Danger>`err:frontline:capacity:spend_limit_reached`</Danger>

The workspace reached the monthly Compute spend budget it set, with "stop workloads at the budget" enabled, so its running compute was paused. Requests to its deployments return `402 Payment Required` until the pause is lifted.

This is a billing gate, not an outage. Nothing is broken and no data is lost. Compute resumes automatically, usually within about a minute, once spend is no longer over the budget.

## How to resume

Any of these lifts the pause automatically:

* Raise the spend budget above current usage.
* Remove the spend budget.
* Turn off **Stop workloads at the budget**.
* Wait for the next billing period, when usage resets.

All of these live under **Settings > Billing** on the Compute card. See [Compute billing and spend budgets](/platform/workspaces/compute-billing) for details.