I use R to interface with the chatGPT API (mainly 3.5). I ran a script with no problems, but noticed throttling two days ago. I checked and found a warning in R (which appeared nowhere on the platform) that I was over quota.
I am nowhere near the financial limit set for my tier 1 account. I see there are daily request limits. It has now been two days with no use and I am still getting “over quota” blockage. I created a new API key. Same error.
Any idea why I am being incorrectly blocked from accessing my account?
Welcome to the Forum!
Do you have sufficient funds on your OpenAI developer account?
As OpenAI now largely operates pre-paid billing, you need to pre-fund your API use. The limit does not imply that you have funds available.
Yes, that’s what is bizarre. I’m looking at my “usage” showing plenty of money/credit, but my API (via R) says “over quota”. I thought it likely refers to the daily pull limits, so I waited two days to try it again. When that didn’t work, I drew a new API token to be sure it was not an old error tied to a token. No luck.
Please provide your request code and the exact error message received.
With my token set as chatGPT_API, I use:
chatGPT_response <- POST(
url = "[API LINK HERE]",
add_headers(Authorization = paste("Bearer", chatGPT_API)),
content_type_json(),
encode = "json",
body = list(
model = "gpt-3.5-turbo-0301",
messages = list(list(role = "user", content = "Why is the sky blue?"))
)
)
content(chatGPT_response)
The link provided is generic and does not personalize (e.g., your calls are over, your spend is set low, etc.)
> content(chatGPT_response)
$error
$error$message
[1] “You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, read the docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/error-codes/api-errors.”
$error$type
[1] “insufficient_quota”
$error$param
NULL
$error$code
[1] “insufficient_quota”
Is this a project key or a user key?
Projects have their own limits, so it is possible you have a monthly spend limit set on a project that you’re not seeing in the default account view.
There are Organization limits and Project limits,
So if you check your account settings at https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/general and look at the limits for the organization and for whichever project the API key belongs to, you might see something there which helps.
Thanks for this. I found two issues.
My balance on that page was “$0”, which I did not think should happen because I set a high limit under Project “Usage” and “Cost” tab that had not been exceeded. I added an “auto-pay” so my personal would not reach $0, but I do not love that there was no absolute limit (e.g., auto-load could spend $1,000 and I find out after).
I am still a bit confused because the API I was using was a project key, not a personal key (even generated a new one to be sure). I’m going to try to keep a close eye on the costs this week and don’t know that I recommend this as a long-term solution.
I’ll try to remember to update if the project key pulls from the intended “pot” of funds in the future. Thank you for the look!
Always happy to help out fellow R users!
