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  title: "Billing"
  parentTitle: "Pricing"
  description: "How billing works on Liveblocks, from credits to your invoice."
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This page explains how credits, billing cycles, overage, and invoices work. For
plan prices and metered rates, see [Pricing overview](/docs/pricing/overview).

## Credits

Every paid plan includes a monthly credit allowance. Credits are applied
automatically to your metered usage, like realtime collaboration minutes,
comments, custom notifications, and storage. You only pay once you have used up
your credits. Your plan base is what buys those credits, and on higher Team
tiers the included credits are worth more than the base price, so you get more
usage for the same spend.

## Billing cycle

Billing runs monthly, from the 1st to the last day of the month. Credits reset
at the start of each cycle and do not roll over.

## Overage

Usage above your monthly credits is overage. It is charged at the per-unit rates
in each plan's [Metered usage](/docs/pricing/plans/pro#Metered-usage) table and
added to your invoice. Your total is always your plan base plus any overage.

## Annual billing

Pay annually to get two months free compared with monthly billing. Credits still
reset each month.

## Invoices and payment

Paid plans are billed by card. Invoicing is available on Enterprise.
[Contact sales](/contact/sales) to set this up. You can view and download past
invoices from your [dashboard billing settings](/dashboard).

## Tracking your spend

See your usage and remaining credits at any time on your
[dashboard usage page](/dashboard/usage), so there are no surprises on your
invoice.

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For an overview of all available documentation, see [/llms.txt](/llms.txt).