Solution 1: Generate an API key in a project or as a user key in billing; this is required to activate cel phone number verification,
Solution 2: Wait, the provisioning of an account and models takes some time,
Solution 3: Don’t trust the UI. You might see credits, but not be able to spend them until card processing is done by an outsourced provider.
Solution 4: Go to the chat playground, ensure the same organization and project is selected, see if you are blocked from even trying still.
Solution 5: Go to rate limits for the organization, see that models like GPT-4o have been turned on.
Solution 6: Generate another API key. List models by the models API endpoint. Make API calls with new key. Ensure it is an OPENAI_API_KEY system environment variable to be used by SDKs.
Solution 7: use “help” through the platform site and complain about this tedious and non-obvious problematic sign-up procedure that no other AI provider experiences.