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title: Get started with Compute Budgets
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/accounts/accounts-billing/new-relic-one-pricing-billing/compute-budgets/overview
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Compute Budgets provides a mechanism to monitor and alert on your Compute Capacity Unit (CCU) usage. This helps you stay within your ideal usage limits and effectively manage costs. With **Compute Budgets**, you can:

-   **Proactively monitor costs**: Move from a reactive to a proactive approach in budget management. This allows you to anticipate and address budget issues before they arise.
-   **Reduce manual effort**: Minimize the manual work required to track and monitor compute usage. This enables you to focus on higher-value tasks.
-   **Improve confidence and adherence to budgets**: Gain greater insights into your compute spend, enhancing your ability to adhere to budgets and effectively manage costs.

    > #### ⚠️ IMPORTANT
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    > Compute Budgets allows you to monitor and alert on your Compute Capacity Units (CCU) usage. It does not restrict or otherwise monitor consumption of CCUs.

    ![Screenshot displaying the Compute Budget Overview page](https://docs.newrelic.com/images/compute-budget-overview.webp "Screenshot displaying the Compute Budget Overview page")

## Prerequisites

To use **Compute Budgets**, you must:

-   [Sign up](https://newrelic.com/signup/) for a New Relic account.
-   Have at least one Compute SKU.

### Customer structure requirements

Your access to Compute Budgets features depends on your customer structure:

-   **Single-tenant customers**: You can create and manage organization budgets and account level budgets for your organization.
-   **Multi-tenant customers**:
    -   **Managing organizations**: You can create and manage customer budgets, organization level budgets for managed organizations, and account level budgets for your managing organization.
    -   **Managed organizations**: You cannot create or manage budgets.

## Access controls

### For single-tenant customers

-   Users with the `organization_manager` role can **create**, **update**, or **delete** `Organization Budget` and `account budgets`, provided they also have access to the telemetry account.
-   Users with the `organization_read_only` role can **view** `account budgets`, provided they also have access to the telemetry account.
-   Users who don't have access to the telemetry account cannot view the `Organization Budget`, but they can view `account budgets` if they have access to those accounts.

### For multi-tenant customers

#### Managing organizations

-   The **Compute Budgets** tab is visible to users in managing organizations.
-   Users in managing organizations can create and manage customer budgets, organization level budgets for managed organizations, and account level budgets.

#### Managed organizations

-   Users in managed organizations **cannot access** the **Compute Budgets** tab.

## Next steps

[Manage organization level budgets](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/accounts/accounts-billing/new-relic-one-pricing-billing/compute-budgets/organization-level-budgets)

Manage your default organization or customer budget and configure budget limits.

[Set up account level budgets](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/accounts/accounts-billing/new-relic-one-pricing-billing/compute-budgets/account-level)

Create and manage budgets for individual accounts or groups of accounts within your organization.