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i’m coding using openai api. But i request many completetion in a short time. how can i check rate limit but not visit my account page?

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Welcome to the OpenAI community @pclnvu1009

Rate limits don’t change(unless you apply for a rate limit increase) and remain enforced at all times.

All a dev has to do is honor the TPM, RPM and RPD limits, which they can, by writing code that counts their requests and tokens.

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The headers return rate limits. However that only helps indirectly, because there still may be more parallel calls in processing to come down still, if you aren’t doing one at a time and holding off based on the header value.

x-ratelimit-limit-requests: 200
x-ratelimit-remaining-requests: 199
x-ratelimit-reset-requests: 59.70

“rate limits can be quantized” in older advice, then rewritten in a less technical manner: Rate Limit Advice | OpenAI Help Center

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how can i see this?

x-ratelimit-limit-requests: 200
x-ratelimit-remaining-requests: 199
x-ratelimit-reset-requests: 59.70
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Those are HTTP headers. How you view them will depend on how you are calling the API - it will work differently for Python libraries v.s. Node.js libraries v.s. other mechanisms.

If you’re using curl you can see them by adding the “-i” option:

curl -i https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
-d '{
  "model": "gpt-3.5-turbo",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Five names for a pet walrus"
    }
  ]
}'

For me just now that returned headers that included:

x-ratelimit-limit-requests: 5000
x-ratelimit-limit-tokens: 160000
x-ratelimit-limit-tokens_usage_based: 160000
x-ratelimit-remaining-requests: 4999
x-ratelimit-remaining-tokens: 159976
x-ratelimit-remaining-tokens_usage_based: 159976
x-ratelimit-reset-requests: 12ms
x-ratelimit-reset-tokens: 9ms
x-ratelimit-reset-tokens_usage_based: 9ms