# Avoiding throttling during peak hours?

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/avoiding-throttling-during-peak-hours/1358839>\
**Category:** API\
**Tags:** api, gpt-5\
**Created:** [September 19, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/avoiding-throttling-during-peak-hours/1358839 "2025-09-19T02:05:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 4:03am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/avoiding-throttling-during-peak-hours/1358839/3 "2025-09-19T04:03:30Z")

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Welcome to the dev forum, @carlson.

Currently, there’s no accessible interface from OpenAI that can be used to see server usage peak times.

However, if guaranteed timely responses are a requirement, I’d recommend looking into the [`priority` service tier](https://openai.com/api-priority-processing/). Once you have it for your org, you can simply set the [`service_tier`](https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/responses/create#responses-create-service_tier) param to `priority` to ensure the requests get processed in a timely manner.

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