# Usage-based plan enforcement (Hobby caps)

Act on w8/m1's meters instead of only recording them: Hobby-plan caps on bandwidth / build minutes, with approaching-limit and exceeded notifications (Render emails at both thresholds — verified 2026-07-09). Overage _billing_ is out of scope — that's the pricing FUTURE-MAYBE entry, not this note.

- Needs w4/m7 (Kratos courier) for the email channel.
- Enforcement semantics to decide when picked up: warn-only vs. suspend-on-exceed (Render suspends free-tier services that exhaust free usage).

**Gated:** revisit once w8/m1 has accumulated ~a month of real usage rows — cap values chosen before real data exist would be guesses.
