Is there a faster way to get out of free tier?

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I’ve added money to my newly created account and am making requests to one of the chat endpoints using gpt-4o-mini, but I’ve had to put a sleep in my code to not hit the free tier rate limit. Is there any other way besides what is described here (https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/rate-limits/usage-tiers?context=tier-free) to get out of the free tier sooner?

At this rate, it will take me quite sometime to get out of this tier. I do have an older personal account with some credits in it. Should I use this instead of the account I setup for a business project?

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The best way is to create a multiplatform solution to guarantee resilience. We have many options, including more some more open than openai.

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You don’t have to use the credits.

You just have to pay.

Tier is based on how much money you’ve sent in the past to OpenAI to be converted into API fun bucks that expire after a year.

There’s a bunch of reports that the tier upgrade is not taking effect after qualifying payments, though.

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