# Balances An account's plan allows a number of websites, pages, documents (PDFs) and other things. A balance says how much of that is left. Ask for the account's balance before you [create a website](https://developers.silktide.com/v1/governance/websites/create-website.md), and a website's balance before you raise its allocation with [Update a website](https://developers.silktide.com/v1/governance/websites/update-website.md). In every balance, `-1` means unlimited. In Silktide itself: [Usage screen](https://docs.silktide.com/settings/screens/usage), in Help. ## Operations - [Get what the account can still add](https://developers.silktide.com/v1/platform/balances/get-account-balance.md): `GET /v1/balances` - [Get what a website can be given](https://developers.silktide.com/v1/platform/balances/get-website-balance.md): `GET /v1/balances/{websiteId}`