# Compute quotas

To ensure relatively predictable pricing and availability, Mithril implements default quotas that limit the total amount of compute a single organization can allocate. If your requirements exceed your current quotas, Mithril can increase them for you. 

## Reservation quotas

**Reservation quotas are the maximum number of forward-looking reserved instance hours.** For example, if your reservation quota for an 8x A100 instance is 72 instance hours, you can reserve 1 instance for 72 hours or 4 instances for 18 hours (you pick the shape of your compute). 

The reservation quota only limits your *future* reserved instance hours. So, once you were halfway through your 72-hour reservation of 1 instance, you would have freed up 36 instance hours in your quota.

## Spot instance quotas

**Spot instance quotas are simply the maximum number of concurrent spot instances you can have allocated at a given time.** For example, if your spot quota for 8x A100 instances is 4 instances, you may only be allocated 4 8x A100 instances across all your bids.

## View your current compute quotas

Quotas are set on a per-instance-type basis. You can see your quotas for each instance type under **Instances > Quotas**. 

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## Increasing your quotas

To increase your quotas, please contact your Mithril account team or email <support@mithril.ai>.


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