When you cross your monthly translated-character allowance, new translations pause. Your app keeps running normally — nothing breaks at runtime.
What stops
- Automatic translation of new strings on push
- PR generation for new locale file updates
What keeps working
- Your app serves the last synced locale JSON exactly as before
- Existing translations are not removed or degraded
- Your repo is unchanged
- You can still push code — globalize.now just queues new strings rather than translating them
How you'll know
You'll receive an in-product notification when you're approaching your limit, and another when you've crossed it. No translation failures in your app — just a pause in the pipeline.
How to resume
You can upgrade to add more translated-character capacity at any time from your billing settings. New strings resume translating automatically on the next Git push after your capacity is increased or resets.
Monthly reset
Character usage resets at the start of each billing cycle. Unused characters don't roll over.