How to access the Assistant API on Playground?

I have a paid ChatGPT account and would like to try out the Assistant feature on the Playground. I can setup an assistat, but I cannot execute a run. I am getting the error: “No assistant found with id ‘new’.” Whatever this error message means. How can I actually run the assistant?

Also, I cannot select GPT-4 in the dropdown.

Can you add an assistant through the API? I was having a similar problem and adding it through the API worked. Once it (and a corresponding thread) was created, I was able to use the playground with the assistant.

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Actually, I haven’t tried the API yet, since I first wanted to get a feeling for it, using the Playground. But thanks for the hint, will try.

ChatGPT Plus membership does not affect your API account, you will need to add a payment method to your API account and load $5 minimum credit to the account to use the GPT-4 series of models.

You can find your account details here https://platform.openai.com/account/billing/overview

Playground is here

https://platform.openai.com/playground

This is strange. I’m absolutely sure I provided a credit card, and since then have access to GPT-4 in the chatbot. I also get the payment deducted from my bank. But no payment method shows up on my API billing page. Is this different from the chatbot itself? And if so, can I cancel my regular subscription and just pay for the API?

The API and ChatGPT only share the email details, the accounts are separate. If you cancel your ChatGPT Plus membership you will currently not be able to reactivate it as there is a pause on new memberships so do that with care.

To Cancel click on your email address in the bottom left of the ChatGPT screen and select My Plan, then “manage my subscription” and then select cancel on the next page that shows.

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