Set a usage limit for a group

Last updated: October 30, 2026

Create a group for a team and set how many Creative Units each of its members may spend per day, week or month, so you can budget a team's usage and see who goes over it.

Before you start

  • Groups are part of the Enterprise plan. On other plans, Groups shows Upgrade to Enterprise instead; contact sales to enable it.

  • You need a role that can manage workspace settings, such as Admin.

  • Decide the cap from your own usage: see what each team has spent before you set a number. For how a group's limit combines with members' other limits, see Usage limits.

Steps

  1. Open the workspace menu, choose Settings, then select Groups under People. All Groups lists your existing groups with their role, usage limit and member count.

  2. Click Create Group and enter a Group name for the team, for example the team or project it covers.

  3. Click Create group. The group's page opens on its Members tab.

  4. Open the Usage limit tab and click Set usage limit. Enter how many Creative Units each member may spend, and pick the period under Per: day, week or month (the default). Under When it's used up, Block stops anything that spends Creative Units until the limit resets; Warn only shows members a warning and lets them keep working.

  5. Click Set usage limit in the dialog.

Result

Layer confirms with Usage limit updated. The Usage limit tab shows the cap with its period and whether it blocks or warns, and the same figure appears in the group's row on Groups. The limit applies to each member of the group, counted over the period in UTC. Use the edit and remove buttons next to it to change or lift the cap.

Production tips

  • Add the members next. A new group has no members. On the Members tab, use Add a member to search by name or email.

  • Give the group a role. A new group starts on No role, which grants no access but can still carry a limit. Pick a role under Workspace role on the Role & access tab if you also want the group to decide what its members can do.

  • Decide what the team may use, too. The Model controls and Agent controls tabs set the models and the Layer agent for the group's members. See Set AI controls for a group.

  • Match the period to how the team works. A daily limit surfaces a heavy batch run the same day; a monthly limit suits steady production that tracks your billing cycle.

  • Split teams by budget, not only by discipline. Separate groups for a live-ops event team and a concept team let you raise one cap for a crunch without raising the other.

  • Watch who is close to the cap. The Usage Limits page, linked from the Usage limit tab, shows where every member stands, and is where you give one member a limit of their own. See Set a usage limit for one member. Members see their own usage against each limit in their personal settings under My Usage Limits.

  • Groups from your identity provider arrive in this list on their own. Set a limit on them the same way.

If something goes wrong

  • The page shows Upgrade to Enterprise. Groups are not on your plan. Contact sales to enable them.

  • Set usage limit stays greyed out. Creative Units must be more than zero, and Warn at (% of the limit) a whole number from 1 to 100.

  • A member is held to a different cap than this one. A member in several capped groups is held to the most generous one, and a member's own limit replaces their group limits for the same period. See Usage limits.

  • Failed to set usage limit. Reload the page and try again. If it keeps failing, contact support.

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