# Production Blocked: Tier 5 Hard Cap Limit Increase Reqeust ($5K to $10K)

**URL:** <https://community.perplexity.ai/t/production-blocked-tier-5-hard-cap-limit-increase-reqeust-5k-to-10k/5493>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** sonar-api\
**Created:** [July 3, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/production-blocked-tier-5-hard-cap-limit-increase-reqeust-5k-to-10k/5493 "2026-07-03T14:29:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Doug\_Hay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.perplexity.ai/doug_hay/32/3291_2.png) [@Doug\_Hay](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/Doug_Hay)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/production-blocked-tier-5-hard-cap-limit-increase-reqeust-5k-to-10k/5493/1 "2026-07-03T14:29:01Z")

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Hey team — looking for an assist to keep a production weekend build alive. I hit the $5,000 monthly hard cap on my Tier 5 developer profile and just submitted an official limit increase request to api@perplexity.ai to raise it to $10,000. I’m scaling a platform involving voice and AWS pipelines. Is there an on-call engineer who can manually approve the override so I don’t face a full work stoppage this weekend? Appreciate any eyes on this!

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**Author:** ![dev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.perplexity.ai/dev/32/2490_2.png) [@dev](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/dev)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2026, 12:38am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/production-blocked-tier-5-hard-cap-limit-increase-reqeust-5k-to-10k/5493/2 "2026-07-10T00:38:40Z")

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@Doug_Hay did you try filling up the [Request a Rate Limit Increase form](https://perplexity.typeform.com/to/yctmfyVT) (link copied from the API docs page)?

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**Author:** ![albert\_pplx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@albert\_pplx](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/albert_pplx)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2026, 10:31pm UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/production-blocked-tier-5-hard-cap-limit-increase-reqeust-5k-to-10k/5493/3 "2026-07-10T22:31:50Z")

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Hi Doug,

This sounds like a Computer credits limit rather than an API limit, as we currently don’t have any caps on spend for the API.

You can email support@perplexity.ai for Computer-related matters, they’ll be able to assist you!