The short version
- Your quota is per project and resets every billing period (your renewal date), not on the 1st of the calendar month.
- Every project gets the full plan quota. A 30-blog plan gives you 30 in each project, not 30 split across all of them.
- The number you can still add right now is called your headroom (your quota minus what you have already planned for this period).
- When you reach the limit, new generation pauses until your next period begins. Your account is never charged extra automatically.
How quota is measured
Per project, not per account
Each project carries its own subscription and its own quota. If you run three projects on a 30-blog plan, each project can generate up to 30 blogs in its period. They do not share a pool, and one busy project never eats into another project’s allowance.Per billing period, not the calendar month
Your quota cycle is tied to your subscription, anchored to the day you activated, not to the first of the month. If you started on the 12th, each cycle runs from the 12th to the 12th. (If your start day does not exist in a shorter month, theStacc uses the last day of that month and then snaps back, so a billing day of the 31st becomes the 28th in February and returns to the 31st in March.) The usage indicator on your Content SEO dashboard always shows the current cycle’s count and the date it resets, so you can see exactly where you stand.Yearly plans are paced, not dumped all at once
If you pay annually, you are still billed once a year, but your blogs are paced monthly. A yearly 30 plan gives you 30 blogs in each monthly cycle across the year, not 360 to spend in one go. The per-cycle cap is your plan number (for example 30), and it refreshes every month until your annual renewal. This keeps your publishing steady and matches how the plan is priced. There are two separate timelines here, and it helps to keep them apart:- Billing window - when you are charged (monthly, every 6 months, or yearly). This is what you see on Settings > Billing.
- Quota cycle - when your blog counter resets. For paced plans this is monthly, regardless of how often you are billed.
What each plan includes
A few notes:
- Trial plans give a small fixed number of blogs spread across the whole trial window. The trial allowance does not refill each month - it is a one-time amount for the trial, and the trial also ends on its own expiry date.
- Yearly and 6-month plans use the same per-cycle number as their monthly equivalents (a yearly 30 behaves like 30 per month). You simply pay for the longer term up front.
- Unlimited plans have no blog cap. The usage indicator and the Generate More button are hidden for these projects because there is nothing to count - your quota shows as unlimited.
What counts toward your period
What fills up your headroom is everything you have planned for the current cycle - the blogs scheduled to land on a date inside this period. That includes:- Placeholders waiting to be generated
- Bonus blogs that are still waiting for you to pick a publish date
- Blogs currently generating
- Blogs in review, approved, scheduled, and published
- Missed blogs (the date passed without generation)
- Generation failed blogs (the AI run did not complete)
Headroom and the Generate More button
Headroom is simply:Headroom = your quota - what you have already planned this periodFor example, on a 50-blog plan with 38 already scheduled, your headroom is 12. The Generate more button on your dashboard reads this number and lets you add up to that many bonus blogs in one go. When you request more, theStacc checks your headroom first and only accepts the request if you have room. If you ask for more than your headroom, it stops you with a clear message showing how many you have already scheduled and how many more you are allowed. The dialog shows your current headroom up front (for example, “You have 38 of 50 blogs scheduled. Add up to 12 more.”). Each bonus blog you add gets a title and keyword generated automatically; you then pick a publish date for each one from the section that appears below. The Generate more button is hidden when there is nothing useful it could do - for instance on unlimited plans, when your headroom is already zero, or at the end of a cycle when no days remain. On 30-blog plans where onboarding has already filled all 30 slots for the cycle, the button stays hidden until the next cycle frees up room. To learn the full bonus-blog flow, see Generate More & Bonus Blogs.
