It’s a valid key. You’d get stopped cold with an invalid key error otherwise.
However, the onboarding of some undisclosed trial amount might never arrive and you get no service if you don’t pay for some credits when you are offered that next screen. See some back-and-forth of not getting some free usage on cheap models, what OpenAI says is there:
In the platform site, go to “billing” and check “account balance” to see the amount available to pay for billed usage at API pricing.
Additionally, that initial payment consistently takes between many minutes and several hours to fully activate an account, and then under limits, to switch an account to “tier 1” showing at the top and bottom of the page.
429: …check your plan and billing - the error you get with no funds available and an unactivated organization.
So:
- wait
- try
- pay
- wait
- try