# Texts grow with your users

October 2, 2026 · API · Breaking

Verification and approval texts used to have fixed numbers, inside a 300-an-hour ceiling every developer shared. An approved application in production now gets an hourly allowance that grows on its own as you verify people, under one Layout-wide ceiling that is much higher.

## Your hour grows with verified people

Verification texts and approval texts count together, per developer account, over a rolling hour: 30 an hour, plus one for every 20 people you have verified, up to 1,000. Your daily room on each grows by the same factor, from 6,000 up to 24,000. A verified person is someone on any of your applications in production who read your code back to you, signed up with the number you provisioned, or approved your application, and has not disconnected it. Layout recounts every few minutes. Sandbox and applications awaiting approval keep their numbers. See [Texts per hour grow with verified people](https://developer.layout.link/reference/limits#texts-per-hour).

## One Layout-wide ceiling

Layout sends at most 2,000 verification and approval texts an hour across every developer, together, and no developer account can use more than half of it. Across every approved developer, each of verification and approval texts allows 48,000 a day.

## See it in GET /v1/usage

`rates` lists `texts` with `scope: "developer"`: your hourly number, the `verifiedPeople` it grew from, the `max` it grows to, and `next`, the verified people at which it grows again. `texts_platform` is Layout's 2,000.

When your hour or Layout's is reached, `verify/start` answers `429 rate_limited` with `Retry-After` and `error.limit`, which now carries `"period": "hour"` on an hourly ceiling. Without `period`, a limit is per day, as before.

## Breaking changes

In `GET /v1/usage` `rates`, `verification_texts_platform` and `approval_texts_platform` are replaced by `texts_platform`, and `texts` is new. A new approved application starts at 30 texts an hour rather than 250 verification starts an hour; it passes 250 at 4,400 verified people. Nothing else changes shape.