--- title: Create Spend Policy --- [Skip to content](#_top) [API Reference](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/python) [Billing](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/python/resources/billing) [Spend Policies](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/python/resources/billing/subresources/spend_policies) Copy Markdown Open in **Claude**Open in **ChatGPT**Open in **Cursor** --- **Copy Markdown****View as Markdown** # Create Spend Policy billing.spend\_policies.create(SpendPolicyCreateParams\*\*kwargs) -> [SpendPolicyCreateResponse]() POST/accounts/{account\_id}/billing/spend-policies Creates a spend policy. Each account can have only one enabled `usage_block` policy per product. A second one returns `409`. There is no limit on `notification` policies. ##### Security
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##### ParametersExpand Collapse account\_id: str Represents a Cloudflare resource identifier tag. maxLength32 [Link to this property](<#(resource)%20billing.spend_policies%20%3E%20(method)%20create%20%3E%20(params)%20default%20%3E%20(param)%20account_id%20%3E%20(schema)>)
action: Literal\["notification", "usage\_block"] The action taken when the threshold is reached. notification sends an email to notification_email. usage_block blocks further usage of the product until the end of the billing period. Raising the threshold above the current balance, disabling the policy, or deleting it lifts the block early. One of the following: "notification" Link to this property "usage\_block" Link to this property
[Link to this property](<#(resource)%20billing.spend_policies%20%3E%20(method)%20create%20%3E%20(params)%20default%20%3E%20(param)%20action%20%3E%20(schema)>) enabled: [bool]() Whether the policy is evaluated. [Link to this property](<#(resource)%20billing.spend_policies%20%3E%20(method)%20create%20%3E%20(params)%20default%20%3E%20(param)%20enabled%20%3E%20(schema)>) name: str Display name of the policy. After surrounding whitespace is trimmed, it must be 1 to 200 bytes long. The value is stored as sent, untrimmed. minLength1 [Link to this property](<#(resource)%20billing.spend_policies%20%3E%20(method)%20create%20%3E%20(params)%20default%20%3E%20(param)%20name%20%3E%20(schema)>)
product\_id: Literal\["workers", "durable\_objects"] The product the policy applies to: workers or durable_objects. Each product’s balance and policies are separate. Both products support notification and usage_block policies on create and update. One of the following: "workers" Link to this property "durable\_objects" Link to this property
[Link to this property](<#(resource)%20billing.spend_policies%20%3E%20(method)%20create%20%3E%20(params)%20default%20%3E%20(param)%20product_id%20%3E%20(schema)>) threshold\_cents: int The spend threshold for the current billing period, in US cents. Must be greater than zero. formatint64 minimum1 [Link to this property](<#(resource)%20billing.spend_policies%20%3E%20(method)%20create%20%3E%20(params)%20default%20%3E%20(param)%20threshold_cents%20%3E%20(schema)>) notification\_email: Optional\[str] Email address that receives notifications. Required when `action` is `notification`. When set, it must be a bare address (`user@example.com`); display-name forms such as `Name ` are rejected. formatemail [Link to this property](<#(resource)%20billing.spend_policies%20%3E%20(method)%20create%20%3E%20(params)%20default%20%3E%20(param)%20notification_email%20%3E%20(schema)>) ##### ReturnsExpand Collapse
class SpendPolicyCreateResponse: … A spend policy. id: str The unique identifier of the spend policy. formatuuid Link to this property account\_id: int Internal numeric ID of the account that owns the policy. This is not the account tag used in the path. formatint64 Link to this property
action: Literal\["notification", "usage\_block"] The action taken when the threshold is reached. notification sends an email to notification_email. usage_block blocks further usage of the product until the end of the billing period. Raising the threshold above the current balance, disabling the policy, or deleting it lifts the block early. One of the following: "notification" Link to this property "usage\_block" Link to this property
Link to this property enabled: bool Whether the policy is evaluated. Link to this property name: str Display name of the policy. Link to this property notification\_email: str Email address that receives notifications. An empty string when none is set. Link to this property
product\_id: Literal\["workers", "durable\_objects"] The product the policy applies to: workers or durable_objects. Each product’s balance and policies are separate. Both products support notification and usage_block policies on create and update. One of the following: "workers" Link to this property "durable\_objects" Link to this property
Link to this property threshold\_cents: int The spend threshold for the current billing period, in US cents. formatint64 Link to this property version: int Optimistic-concurrency version. It starts at 1 and goes up by one on every update or delete. This value is also returned in ETag. formatint64 minimum1 Link to this property
current\_state: Optional\[CurrentState] Read-only state on list/get responses, evaluated from the latest owning projector snapshot at request time, independently of the API replica. Configuration enabled/version/ETag do not change when a cycle rolls over. Audit history remains unchanged. Missing during a rolling upgrade or on mutation responses; clients must treat missing state as unavailable. Balances are asynchronous estimates, not a synchronous usage read. balance\_cents: Optional\[int] formatint64 Link to this property billing\_period\_end: Optional\[datetime] formatdate-time Link to this property billing\_period\_start: Optional\[datetime] formatdate-time Link to this property
enforcement: Optional\[CurrentStateEnforcement] Durable desired cap and delivery bookkeeping for this policy, or null if no owned effect exists. Separate from threshold evaluation: pending/leased/retry can lag the new billing period. Succeeded with equal generations means delivery completed, not an EWC readback. applied\_generation: int formatint64 Link to this property
delivery\_status: Literal\["pending", "leased", "retry", "succeeded"] One of the following: "pending" Link to this property "leased" Link to this property "retry" Link to this property "succeeded" Link to this property
Link to this property desired\_generation: int formatint64 Link to this property
desired\_state: Literal\["active", "inactive"] One of the following: "active" Link to this property "inactive" Link to this property
Link to this property expires\_at: Optional\[datetime] formatdate-time Link to this property
Link to this property evaluated\_at: datetime Evaluation time; not the timestamp of the latest usage event. formatdate-time Link to this property
status: Literal\["disabled", "no\_current\_period", "unavailable", 2 more] Threshold evaluation, not proof of an edge cap. No current active period yields no\_current\_period for enabled policies; failed aggregate reads yield unavailable for enabled policies. Disabled policies report disabled. Neither no\_current\_period nor unavailable implies a zero balance or below-limit state. Operators may disable current-state reads, in which case current\_state is omitted. One of the following: "disabled" Link to this property "no\_current\_period" Link to this property "unavailable" Link to this property "below\_limit" Link to this property "limit\_reached" Link to this property
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[Link to this property](<#(resource)%20billing.spend_policies%20%3E%20(model)%20spend_policy_create_response%20%3E%20(schema)>) ### Create Spend Policy Python HTTPTypeScriptPythonGoTerraform ``` import os from cloudflare import Cloudflare client = Cloudflare( api_token=os.environ.get("CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN"), # This is the default and can be omitted ) spend_policy = client.billing.spend_policies.create( account_id="023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353", action="notification", enabled=True, name="Durable Objects alert", product_id="durable_objects", threshold_cents=100, notification_email="billing@example.com", ) print(spend_policy.id) ``` 200 example ``` { "errors": [ { "message": "message", "code": 0 } ], "messages": [ { "message": "message", "code": 0 } ], "result": { "id": "6f1c2b8e-3d4a-4f5b-9c6d-7e8f9a0b1c2d", "account_id": 1234567, "action": "notification", "enabled": true, "name": "Workers cap", "notification_email": "billing@example.com", "product_id": "workers", "threshold_cents": 100, "version": 1, "current_state": { "balance_cents": 0, "billing_period_end": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z", "billing_period_start": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z", "enforcement": { "applied_generation": 0, "delivery_status": "pending", "desired_generation": 0, "desired_state": "active", "expires_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z" }, "evaluated_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z", "status": "disabled" } }, "success": true } ``` ##### Returns Examples 200 example ``` { "errors": [ { "message": "message", "code": 0 } ], "messages": [ { "message": "message", "code": 0 } ], "result": { "id": "6f1c2b8e-3d4a-4f5b-9c6d-7e8f9a0b1c2d", "account_id": 1234567, "action": "notification", "enabled": true, "name": "Workers cap", "notification_email": "billing@example.com", "product_id": "workers", "threshold_cents": 100, "version": 1, "current_state": { "balance_cents": 0, "billing_period_end": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z", "billing_period_start": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z", "enforcement": { "applied_generation": 0, "delivery_status": "pending", "desired_generation": 0, "desired_state": "active", "expires_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z" }, "evaluated_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z", "status": "disabled" } }, "success": true } ```