Daily

Get warned before your ElevenLabs characters run out

You get one email when your account passes 80% of its character limit, before a long render fails.

Runs: Daily
Apps: ElevenLabs
AI: Not needed
Access: read (user)

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day at 9am, check how many ElevenLabs characters I've used this billing period and email me once if I'm over 80% of my plan's limit.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

ElevenLabs charges by characters generated, and the allowance for the month runs out faster than people expect. A team producing audiobook chapters, video voiceovers or a daily podcast intro can burn through a month of characters in two weeks when a batch of long scripts goes through. When the quota is gone, the next job fails or the account switches to overage billing, and a deadline is missed or a bill is larger than planned.

Each day the automation reads your ElevenLabs subscription, compares characters used with your character limit, works out the percentage and emails you when you cross a threshold such as 80 percent. It warns once for each threshold, so you are told in time to upgrade or slow down, without repeated nagging.

Content creators, agencies producing voice work and developers building apps on ElevenLabs will find it protects their schedule.

What you get out of it

No failed jobs on deadline day
A warning at 80 percent leaves room to finish the month's work and plan the remainder around what is left in the allowance. Running out mid-project, with a client waiting on a voiceover, is an embarrassing and avoidable outcome.
Avoid surprise overage costs
If your plan allows extra characters at a higher price, knowing you are near the limit lets you decide whether to buy more. Letting it happen silently turns into a larger bill at the end of the cycle.
Time to upgrade or schedule around it
Upgrading a plan takes minutes if you do it with notice. With a warning, you can upgrade, move work to next month or shorten scripts, instead of making a rushed decision.
See how fast usage is growing
If the 80 percent email arrives earlier each month, production is growing. That is useful information for planning budgets, and for deciding when a larger plan makes more sense than paying for extras as you go.
Shared awareness for the team
When several people use one account, nobody knows how much the others have used. The email gives everyone the same information at the same moment, so one person's long batch does not surprise the rest of the team halfway through the month.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Once a day, ClickRuntime checks how many characters your ElevenLabs account has used this billing period.
If you have used more than 80% of your limit, you get an email with the characters used and the percentage.
You are only warned once per billing period, so the email doesn't repeat every day.

Before it runs live

Connect ElevenLabs

What you get

RunsDaily

Get warned before your ElevenLabs characters run outtoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · ElevenLabs quota84,120 of 100,000 characters used (84%).

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other ElevenLabs steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

character_quota_alert.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, notify, http, state

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    sub = http.get("https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/user/subscription",
                   headers={"xi-api-key": credentials.secret("ELEVENLABS_API_KEY")}).json()
    used = sub["character_count"] / sub["character_limit"]
    period = sub["next_character_count_reset_unix"]
    if used > 0.8 and state.get("alerted_period") != period:
        notify.email_me("ElevenLabs characters over 80%",
                        f"{sub['character_count']:,} of {sub['character_limit']:,} characters used ({used:.0%}).")
        state.set("alerted_period", period)
    return {"used": round(used, 3)}

FAQ

Common questions

How is the percentage calculated?

The automation reads the character count and the character limit from your ElevenLabs subscription, then divides one by the other. When the limit changes, for example after an upgrade, the percentage adjusts automatically, so a larger plan does not leave you with stale warnings.

Can I set more than one threshold, such as 50 and 90 percent?

Yes. Each threshold can send its own email once per billing period, so you might get an early notice at 50 percent and an urgent one at 90. Tell your AI assistant which levels you want.

What happens when my quota resets?

When a new billing period begins and the used characters fall back to zero, the alerts reset, so you will be warned again at each threshold in the new month. You do not need to do anything.

What permissions does it need?

read (user). Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (daily). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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