Overage behavior
How ADO Pilot handles reviews after you exhaust your included RCs, including hard-block, auto-overage, and the overage cap.
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When you run out of included review credits (RCs) in a billing period, ADO Pilot either blocks new reviews or charges you for additional RCs — your overage policy controls which. This page explains the two policies and the optional cap that limits how much overage you can accrue.
Hard-block
With a hard-block policy, the moment your remaining RCs reach zero, new PR reviews are rejected. The PR receives a failing status check named ai-pr-review with the message "Review quota exceeded -- upgrade your plan to continue.", and a comment is posted on the PR explaining the block. Rejected reviews consume zero RCs.
Hard-block is the default for Starter and Team plans. Choose it when you want predictable monthly costs and are willing to upgrade or wait for the period reset rather than absorb surprise charges.
Auto-overage
With an auto-overage policy, reviews continue running after your included RCs are exhausted. Each extra RC consumed in the period is billed at your plan's per-RC overage rate, totaled at the end of the billing period and added to your next invoice.
Auto-overage is the default for Business and Enterprise plans. Larger teams typically prefer continuous service even at marginal extra cost.
Worked example. A Business plan includes 1,300 RCs at an overage rate of $0.18 per extra RC. If you consume 1,500 RCs in the period, the first 1,300 are covered by your plan and the remaining 200 are billed at $0.18 each.
Overage cap
The overage cap is the safety valve on auto-overage: a per-period maximum number of overage RCs you are willing to be billed for. Once your overage reaches the cap, ADO Pilot switches to hard-block for the rest of the period. The cap resets at the start of the next billing period.
Set or change the cap from the Billing page:
Step 1 — Open the Billing page
In the ADO Pilot dashboard, go to Billing. Find the Overage cap section.
Step 2 — Enter a cap value
Type the maximum number of overage RCs you want to allow per period. The page shows an estimated cost beside the input so you can sanity-check the dollar exposure.
Step 3 — Save
Click Save. The new cap takes effect immediately for the current period.
The default for auto-overage tiers is no cap (uncapped overage). If you set the cap to zero, auto-overage behaves like hard-block.
Choosing a policy
- Hard-block — predictable cost, occasional review interruptions when you exceed the allocation.
- Auto-overage with no cap — continuous reviews, variable cost.
- Auto-overage with a cap — continuous reviews up to a known maximum spend, then a hard-block until the period resets.