Dear OpenAI team,
I wanted to switch from Free Tier to Tier 1 and spent 1.5 (!) hours in vain.
I googled and searched the docs, although this money-generating step should be really intuitive for newcomers like myself, just a button in billing plans.
I asked ChatGPT4 how to switch from default Free Tier to Tier 1. Not helpful. You may laugh, but Claude 3 Opus wasn’t helpful too
Finally after 1.5 hours I’ve found a tiny note:
Current tier
Free
Once the following criteria are met, you`ll automatically move to the next tier:
Start by upgrading to a paid account
At least $5 spent on the API since account creation.
and still no links! just deposit money? or should I have chosen a paid plan somewhere? OK, I’ve deposited 10 bucks just to see if anything changes – not yet seeing, the quest in progress.
and by the way, it looks like one has to find a way to burn 5 bucks with unwanted chatgpt3.5 just to get API access to ChatGPT4 ?
P.S. sorry for some bitter flavor. Doing my best by trying to stay on a positive side.
LOL, it looks like I am forced to burn 5€ through abusive looped wget/curl calls just to get to Tier 1.
It would be not nice at all if I get punished for this through down-throttling or even ban
UPDATE: lol, i was just down-throttled immediately
You do not need to use the credits to increase the tier level.
It is only about the payment amounts received by OpenAI.
If you paid in $5 and the tier did not increase (also look to see that you have access to GPT-4 models to see that the payment is effective, which may take 1-12+ hours if there are processor problems), then you can send a message through the “help” in the account management page to register the problem. Then optionally feed more money to see if that forces a recalculation.
I have already paid 45$ and meanlessly used 6.8$ on gpt-4-turbo (it said should spent 5$ on API) since three days ago but I’m still free tier. And it’s really disappointed that there are no support.
