Know before you hit a subscription limit

You’ll get: how much is left on each AI plan, and when it resets, on one page. An alert when quota drops below 20%, or when you’re likely to run out before the reset.

You need:

• A subscription connected in Providers → Subscriptions, or a Claude or Codex sign-in already on this machine.

Steps

1. Open Gauge and click Turn on Gauge.
2. Open the Accounts tab. Subscriptions from Providers are there already. Click Find accounts to add the Claude and Codex sign-ins on this machine. Use Add account for others.
3. Open the Overview tab. Each account shows its quota windows, how much is left, such as 64% left, and when it Resets.
4. Open the Alerts tab and click Add alert.
5. Set Trigger to Quota remaining and Threshold to 20. Click Create.
6. Click Add alert again. Set Trigger to Forecast risk and click Create. This alert goes off when you’re likely to run out before the reset.
7. Optional: add a Sign-in alert, so you know when a sign-in stops working.

Gauge checks your accounts about every 5 minutes. An alert can come a few minutes after the change.

Where alerts show

• Under Recent alerts on the Alerts tab, with the value that set it off, such as 18%, alerts at 20%.
• On the Gauge item in the Console’s left rail, as a count of active alerts.
• In the desktop app, as a system notification: Gauge needs your attention, then Gauge is back on track when it clears. To stop these, turn on Quiet desktop notifications in Settings → Machine → Diagnostics and privacy.

Check it worked

1. Add a Quota remaining alert with Threshold 100. Every account with a quota window is at or below 100%.
2. Wait up to 5 minutes. The alert shows under Recent alerts, and the Gauge item shows a count.
3. Delete that alert from its menu.

Good to know

• Gauge reads only the accounts you add. It never reads prompts, replies or credentials.
• An alert only tells you. It doesn’t stop requests or switch accounts.
• For an account billed by spend, Add budget on the Alerts tab warns before one project passes a Daily or Monthly limit. Nothing is blocked.

When a plan hits its limit, its models show Paused until in Providers → Subscriptions, and Nexus tries again after that time. More in Gauge.