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Burned through your credits before the cycle ended? You don’t have to wait for your renewal date or move up a plan — you can reset your billing cycle at any time and start a fresh one immediately.
Resetting is for paid plans. On the free plan there’s nothing to renew, so you won’t see these options at all — you’ll need to pick a plan first.

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How to reset your billing cycle

There’s no dedicated reset button. You trigger a reset by renewing the plan you’re already on.
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Open your plans

In the left sidebar, go to Plans & Billing, then click Upgrade plan.
2

Renew your current plan

Find the plan you’re already subscribed to and click Renew now. Don’t pick a different plan — renewing the current one is what resets the cycle.
3

Review the summary

The Reset Billing Cycle? window shows exactly what you’ll be charged, how many credits you’ll end up with, and your new billing period.
4

Confirm

Click the red Reset for … button. Your new cycle starts straight away.
Renewing the current plan from Plans and Billing, then confirming the Reset Billing Cycle window
There’s no threshold to hit and no limit to worry about. You can reset whenever you like, as many times as you like — you’re simply paying for another cycle each time.

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What it costs and what you get

The confirmation window breaks the whole thing down before you commit: For example, on a $100 Pro plan with 82,733 credits left over, the window shows a $100 plan charge plus $20 VAT, credits reset to 100,000, 82,733 carried over, and a total of 182,733 credits — for $120.
Resetting moves your billing date. Your new cycle starts the day you reset and runs for 30 days — not to the same date next calendar month. A reset on 7 August gives you a period of 7 August – 6 September. Check the New period line in the window before confirming, so you know when your next charge lands.

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How carried-over credits really work

This is the part worth reading carefully, because carried-over credits don’t behave like your fresh ones.
  • They’re spent last. Your balance is one pool, and your plan’s fresh allocation is consumed first. You only start drawing on carried-over credits once you’ve used up everything your plan gave you this cycle.
  • They expire after 30 days. The expiry date is shown in the confirmation window when you reset.
  • Expiry is all or nothing. On the expiry date the entire remaining carried-over amount leaves your balance at once — there’s no gradual wind-down.
  • Resetting again adds to what you’re already carrying. Reset a second time and whatever is left joins the new carried-over total — 10,000 unused credits, reset, then reset again, and you’re carrying 20,000 on top of your fresh allocation. The 30-day clock restarts on the combined amount.
Because carried-over credits are spent last, they’ll quietly expire unused if you don’t get through your full plan allocation within those 30 days. And if you’re actively drawing on them when they expire, you’ll drop below what your running Squids need and scraping will stop mid-run.
So a reset is worth doing when you’re genuinely out of credits and need to keep working now. It isn’t a way to bank credits for later.

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Do credits carry over at a normal renewal?

No. When your cycle renews on its own at the end of the period, your usage counter simply resets and you start again with your plan’s standard allocation. Anything you hadn’t spent is gone. Carrying credits over is specific to resetting — it’s the one thing you get for paying early.
If you already have a carried-over balance from an earlier reset, a normal renewal doesn’t wipe it. It stays until its own 30-day expiry date arrives.

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Reset automatically with auto billing reset

If you’d rather not watch your balance, auto billing reset resets the cycle for you once your usage crosses a threshold you choose, so a long job doesn’t stall overnight because nobody was there to top it up.
1

Open your plan

Go to Plans & Billing and stay on the My plan tab. Auto Billing Reset sits inside your current plan card.
2

Switch it on

Flip the toggle. Two settings appear underneath.
3

Set your limits

Adjust Usage threshold (%) and Max resets per 24h, then click Save.
Enabling Auto Billing Reset, adjusting the usage threshold and max resets per 24h, then saving
Usage threshold (%) — how far into your credits you get before a reset fires. Anything from 1 to 100, defaulting to 100. Lower it if you’d rather top up before you’re completely dry. Max resets per 24h — a spending-protection cap, anywhere from 1 to 10, defaulting to 3. The card tracks how many you’ve used (0 of 3 used in the last 24h). If you hit the cap, auto billing reset switches itself off and you’re notified — it won’t keep charging you.
The threshold measures your monthly usage, not your daily portion. If you’re on daily credit allocation, getting through today’s credits won’t trigger a reset — it only fires once you’ve used up your plan’s credits for the month.
Every automatic reset is a real charge: your plan price plus tax, exactly like resetting by hand. With the default cap of 3 in 24 hours, that’s up to three times your plan price in a single day. Set Max resets per 24h to a number you’d be comfortable being billed.
If you switch the toggle on when your usage is already past the threshold, a reset can happen straight away — you may be charged as soon as you enable it, not at some later point in the cycle.
Unused credits carry over on an automatic reset just as they do on a manual one, with the same rules as above — spent last, and expiring after 30 days.

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Your runs pick up where they left off

If your Squid uses the End run once all tasks consumed setting, a run that stalled for lack of credits pauses rather than ending, and starts again by itself once a reset has topped you up. Give it a little time — it won’t restart the same second you’re credited. On the default End run once no credit left, the run finishes as Done instead, and you relaunch it yourself. See no_credits_left for how the two settings differ.

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If a payment fails

You’re notified, your runs pause, and auto billing reset stops there — it won’t keep retrying in the background. Sort out your payment method and reset manually to get going again; automatic resets resume from that point. To turn the feature off at any time, flip the toggle back.

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What happens when you run out

lobstr.io emails you a Usage Alert when you cross 80% and again at 100% of your allocation, so running dry shouldn’t come as a surprise. On the free plan you’ll only get the alert at 100%. Once your credits are gone, runs in progress stop — they either pause until credits are available again or finish with a no_credits_left reason. Anything already scraped stays downloadable either way. See run stop reasons for the detail.
If you’re resetting month after month, a higher plan is usually cheaper than repeatedly buying the same cycle — you get more credits at a better rate. Compare plans.

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