402 until billing is active.
Use organization billing for payment state and invoices, project usage for attribution, and project
budgets for autonomous-work guardrails. A budget can alert at a threshold and can enforce a hard
stop where the resource contract supports it.
Core concepts
Billing and budgets
Understand organization billing, metered resources, and project spend controls.
Billing belongs to the organization; usage is attributed to projects and named resources. A paid
organization has a monthly platform minimum credited against metered usage. Provisioning operations
return
Prices change only through the published rate card. Read the live card from the
Billing API, not from hard-coded application values.