Billing hard limit has been reached error on Free account

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Hi, I’m trying to familiarise myself with the API and implemented a simple image request as described in the Github OpenAIKit Swift SDK documentation.

However I’m seeing the following error on my very first request:
{
“error”: {
“code”: “billing_hard_limit_reached”,
“message”: “Billing hard limit has been reached”,
“param”: null,
“type”: “invalid_request_error”
}

If I check my account limits, I see that I’m on a Free account.
However, the limits for using the dall-e-2 api (which the sdk uses) are specified as follows on the limits page of my Personal account.

rate-limit
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Can someone confirm if these limits are for Free tier or paid tier? Because the wording that precedes the rate limits table is confusing as it says: “Your organization’s rate limits are listed below”. It doesn’t mention if the limits are when on a free or paid tier.

Thank you!

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Welcome to the community!

The error means that you ran out of money.

https://platform.openai.com/usage shows your limits
https://platform.openai.com/account/billing/overview allows you to stock up on credits

The page in the documentation you cited is talking about your rate limit.

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Thank you for the welcome!

Edit: So it turns out that although I’m only using the API now, I had created an account quite some time ago and the free $5 credits have since expired. It would’ve helped though if the documentation would state the same on the limits page.

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