--- title: Laravel Quota: Usage Budgets for Calendar Periods description: Laravel Quota is a package for tracking and enforcing cumulative usage budgets across calendar periods (daily, monthly, etc.), distinct from Laravel's built-in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-quota-usage-budgets-for-calendar-periods-idwexf35e twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Laravel Quota: Usage Budgets for Calendar Periods | daily.dev og:description: Laravel Quota is a package for tracking and enforcing cumulative usage budgets across calendar periods (daily, monthly, etc.), distinct from Laravel's built-in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-quota-usage-budgets-for-calendar-periods-idwexf35e og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/idwEXf35e.png og:image:alt: Laravel Quota: Usage Budgets for Calendar Periods og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Laravel Quota: Usage Budgets for Calendar Periods **[Laravel News](https://daily.dev/sources/ln)** · 3 min read · 39 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Laravel Quota is a package for tracking and enforcing cumulative usage budgets across calendar periods (daily, monthly, etc.), distinct from Laravel's built-in RateLimiter which handles burst throttling. It offers a fluent API, a HasQuotas Eloquent trait, route middleware that only charges on successful responses, atomic consumption via locks, and both cache and database storage backends. Supports PHP 8.2+ and Laravel 11–13. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How is Laravel Quota different from Laravel's built-in RateLimiter? Laravel Quota tracks cumulative usage against a budget that resets on a calendar boundary (like 1,000 API queries per day or 50 PDF exports per month), while RateLimiter throttles bursts of traffic in a sliding window. Quota can also persist counts in a database rather than only in cache, which matters when usage is tied to billing. _Developers comparing rate limiting and usage-budget approaches can track Laravel ecosystem package releases like this on daily.dev._ ### How do I add a per-user monthly usage quota to a Laravel route? Attach the quota route middleware with a name, limit, and period, for example middleware('quota:exports,50,month'). Capacity is checked before the route runs, but the quota is only consumed once the response returns 2xx or 3xx, so a failed request or validation error doesn't cost the user anything. _Laravel developers shipping metered features can follow package deep dives like this on daily.dev._ ### Which PHP and Laravel versions does the zaber-dev/laravel-quota package support? It requires PHP 8.2 and supports Laravel versions 11, 12, and 13. Install it via composer require zaber-dev/laravel-quota, publish the config with vendor:publish, and run php artisan migrate to set up the quotas table for the database backend. _Teams tracking Laravel package compatibility before adopting new tools can follow releases like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Why I Built an Application-Level Quota Manager for Laravel](https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-built-an-application-level-quota-manager-for-laravel-vkdcfqv00) · Medium · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [Tashil: Laravel Subscription Plans and Feature Usage Limits](https://daily.dev/posts/tashil-laravel-subscription-plans-and-feature-usage-limits-jku5f91rj) · Laravel News · 17 upvotes · 0 comments - [Enforce Per-Action Waiting Periods in Laravel with Cooldown](https://daily.dev/posts/enforce-per-action-waiting-periods-in-laravel-with-cooldown-i43ru6dfm) · Laravel News · 22 upvotes · 1 comments - [Scheduled Autoscaling for Laravel Cloud](https://daily.dev/posts/scheduled-autoscaling-for-laravel-cloud-vbjvmbx7o) · Laravel · 8 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#laravel](https://daily.dev/tags/laravel) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-quota-usage-budgets-for-calendar-periods-idwexf35e) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Laravel Quota: Usage Budgets for Calendar Periods","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-quota-usage-budgets-for-calendar-periods-idwexf35e","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-quota-usage-budgets-for-calendar-periods-idwexf35e"},"datePublished":"2026-07-14T13:04:02.361Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T21:29:35.448Z","description":"Laravel Quota is a package for tracking and enforcing cumulative usage budgets across calendar periods (daily, monthly, etc.), distinct from Laravel's built-in...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/426caf32a02f31833c2078446b68519a?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/426caf32a02f31833c2078446b68519a?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Laravel News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Laravel News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/ln","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/ln"},"commentCount":2,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-quota-usage-budgets-for-calendar-periods-idwexf35e","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":39},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}],"keywords":"php,laravel","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Laravel News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/ln"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Laravel Quota: Usage Budgets for Calendar Periods"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-quota-usage-budgets-for-calendar-periods-idwexf35e#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How is Laravel Quota different from Laravel's built-in RateLimiter?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Laravel Quota tracks cumulative usage against a budget that resets on a calendar boundary (like 1,000 API queries per day or 50 PDF exports per month), while RateLimiter throttles bursts of traffic in a sliding window. 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