---
slug: when-ai-allowance-runs-out
title: When your team runs out of AI allowance
category: capability
status: published
tags: [limit, quota, weekly limit, rate limit, paused, waiting, engine, model, fallback, 额度, 限额, 上限, 暂停, 等待, 换引擎]
aliases: [weekly limit, hit the limit, quota reached, why did my task pause]
lastEditAt: 2026-08-05
---
**What happens when the AI provider's limit is reached?**

Your team switches to another engine and keeps working. It only waits when
there is nothing left to switch to.

## Why there is more than one engine

A weekly limit is a fact about one AI provider's capacity — not about your
work. So Tycoon keeps more than one engine available, on deliberately
different providers, and your team moves to the next one when the first is
unavailable. One vendor's ceiling cannot stop your company.

You do not have to choose or configure this. The strongest engine is tried
first; the next one picks the work up where it stopped.

## What you see

The task carries on, and its history notes where the handover happened. There
is nothing for you to do and nothing to re-explain — the task keeps its brief,
its history, and its owner.

## When it does wait

If every engine is unavailable at once, the task pauses and says when capacity
returns. It resumes on its own at that point, and reports the result in the
same place. It will not sit silently: the wait, and what it is waiting for,
are on the task.

## If you would rather it never waits

Connect your own AI subscription under Integrations. Your team then runs on
your allowance instead of sharing Tycoon's capacity — see
[whose AI subscription your work runs on](/help/which-ai-subscription-pays).

## Related

- [Whose AI subscription your work runs on](/help/which-ai-subscription-pays)
- [What happens when credits run out](/help/what-happens-when-credits-run-out)
- [How much Tycoon costs](/help/pricing-credits)