Hi,
I created a new company account and added $25 with the Auto-recharge.
I am using an automation workflow which needs the ability to make many requests per minute using 4o-mini.
Since these requests consume so little tokens, I have not even spent $0.10 yet, but am slowed down by this limit and have not found a way to get to tier 1 (with 500 RPMs).
I would not even mind simply paying the $5. How can I get to tier 1 or upgrade the RPM limit?
Thanks in advance!
This has got to be the most annoying rule. It’s impossible to run anything with such a low RPM. I saw a similar post where a dev suggested using the API during development and debugging to get to tier-1 
I have been using 4o-mini, and even after 4 days of continuous use, I was barely able to reach 1$. I wish there was a better way to upgrade to tier-1.
I have already spent $5 to get to tier 1, but still limits are the same as before. Should I wait or do something special? I have spent $1.5 the and more than $3.5 this month. Help needed
I asked chat gpt to write me bash script
that will query api for the $5 
However, using a more expensive model just for that will make it even simplier / quicker.
However I’ve reached my $5 and still no upgrade to Tier1.
From what I gathered, you do not need to spend $5, but fund with $5. There’s several of these threads now about lots of people having this issue. There’s also a bunch of threads from 12-18 months ago with the same issue. This leads me to believe its a bug in their system. I would suggest contacting support via the chat tool. I did this an hour ago and am hoping for a reply soon.
I did that as well, 9 hours ago 
I fund an account on Tuesday last week, spent some via playground and another $6 via api… Still on free-tier
I tried the “delete free tier API key and regenerate new key” suggested when people were having this issue in June 2023 and it didn’t help. Absolutely bonkers this kind of bug exists.
I guess easier / quicker option might be using the model via Azure AI
I have the same problem! I entered 20 USD a few days ago, and today I entered 5 USD more, but I am still in the Free Tier