Error code 429 - temporary ban. (image models only) (N8N)

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Paired with N8N I’ve been using the API with great success the last several weeks (text and assistant). However as of yesterday tried out the new image model and immediately faced an error code of 429 from the first attempt “The owner of this website (api.openai) has banned you temporarily from accessing this website”.

I thought maybe it was the use of the model so i tried the same with Dalle 2 & 3 with exactly the same issue. I have since used the text models again with no problem.

My organization is verified, the account is appropriately funded, and my usage is no where near the limits. It might be worth noting im still Tier 1 if that makes any difference.

Has anyone else faced this? I’ve noticed in past posts about error 429 quite a few people in the comments that follow report of the same issue meaning it could just be a temporary bug, however i can’t see any complaints of this over the last couple of days since the API has been supporting the new image model.

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

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Welcome to the community!

Are you aware of rate limits for Usage Tier 1 accounts?

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/rate-limits

Hope this helps!

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Thanks for the response PaulBellow.

I had a good read of the rate-limits thinking that was the issue but couldn’t see anything that would affect my personal API usage. Dall-e alone looks like a limitation of 5 images per minute (500RPM) - whilst i can’t get a single image to work.

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Hrm. That’s an odd 429 I’ve not seen before.

Have you checked your email for anything from OpenAI?

Might reach out to support too. Good luck!