I ran into a billing issue with Replit that I think is a documentation and UI problem, not just a user mistake.
I had set a budget limit of $0.01, but it didn’t actually save because Replit requires budgets to be set in $10 increments. Support told me that $0.01 “doesn’t meet the $10 minimum requirement,” so the system couldn’t save it as a valid budget. The problem is that the popup window and the flow I used did not make that clear, so from my perspective it looked like I had a budget limit in place when I didn’t. Looking at their documentation page, it does not say that anywhere that I can find. https://docs.replit.com/billing/managing-spend#set-up-limits-and-budgets
That matters because the result was about $70 in usage charges before I realized the cap was never active. If the system won’t accept values below $10, the interface should say so directly before the user submits it. Right now it reads like the budget was set, when in reality it was silently rejected.
I’m posting this because the current behavior is misleading. If Replit wants to prevent surprise charges, the minimum budget requirement needs to be obvious in the UI and in the docs, not buried in support replies after the fact.
Has anyone else run into this with Replit budgets or usage limits?