Traffic Limit
Set the maximum traffic a proxy plan can use within a chosen period. Control spending and share plans without the risk of overuse.
How to set it up
Open your plan and go to Resources → Manage Traffic Limit.
Choose a Period: 1 hour, 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days.
Enter the Traffic limit in GB (whole numbers only).
Choose an Action for when the limit is reached:
Email notification: you get an email, and the plan keeps working.
Suspend Usage: the plan stops working until traffic becomes available again.
Suspend Usage & Email Notification: the plan stops working, and you get an email.
Click Save Configuration.
To remove the limit, click Clear Configuration.
How the period works: rolling window
The limit works on a rolling window, not a calendar. It never resets at a fixed time (like midnight or the 1st of the month). At any moment, we count your usage for the last 1 hour / 24 hours / 7 days / 30 days, starting from the current moment.
Example: limit of 5 GB per 24 hours, with Suspend Usage.
Mon 09:00, you use 2 GB
2 GB
Working, 3 GB left
Mon 15:00, you use 3 GB
5 GB
Paused
Tue 09:00
3 GB (the 2 GB from Mon 09:00 dropped out)
Working, 2 GB available
Tue 15:00
0 GB
Full 5 GB available
If you use your whole limit at once, the full limit comes back one period later.
Why a rolling window: with a calendar limit, you could use the full limit at 23:59 and again at 00:01. With a rolling window, you can never go over your limit in any period of that length.
When the limit is reached
Suspend Usage: requests return the error
USER_RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED. The plan starts working again on its own as traffic comes back. If you need access sooner, raise the limit or clear the configuration.Email notification: nothing stops. The email only tells you that the limit was reached.
Good to know
The limit applies to one plan, not your whole account.
Changes take effect within about 1 minute.
The limit doesn't add traffic. If your plan balance runs out first, the plan stops anyway.