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If your administrator has set a spending budget for your account, IMP shows a budget indicator in the application’s top bar. The indicator keeps you informed before your budget runs out and stops sending when it does.
IMP chat screen with a red Budget 100% chip in the top bar, a budget reached warning banner above the composer, and a disabled message input reading 'Budget reached — messaging is paused'

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The budget chip

When a budget is configured and your administrator has opted to show it to users, a Budget {percent}% chip appears in the top bar on every screen. The percentage shown is the share of your budget already consumed in the current period. Click the chip (or open Usage from the conversation’s ⋯ menu) to see a breakdown panel. Alongside the token usage for the current conversation, the panel shows a Your budget section with a bar indicating how much of the period budget you have spent and how much remains.

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When the budget runs out

Once you reach 100% of your budget, IMP pauses new messages:
  • The composer shows: “You’ve reached your budget for this period. Messaging is paused until it resets.”
  • The message input changes to: “Budget reached — messaging is paused.”
  • A toast notification appears: Budget reached — “You’ve used your full budget for this period. Messaging is paused until it resets.”
You cannot send new messages until the budget period resets. Existing conversations remain readable and any files or artifacts produced before the limit was reached stay accessible.

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Reset dates

Budgets reset on a schedule set by your administrator. By default the period is a calendar day, week, or month in UTC. Administrators can also set a custom reset date. When the reset happens, your spending counter returns to zero and you can send messages again.
Budgets are set and managed by administrators. If you think your budget is too low, or if you do not see a budget chip when you expect one, contact your administrator. See Administration → Budgets for the admin-side configuration.

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Next steps

Model override and usage

View per-message token counts in the Usage panel.

Context compaction

Keep conversations within the model’s context window.