# Recurring Error message code 429 **URL:** \ **Category:** API\ **Tags:** api\ **Created:** [September 21, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/recurring-error-message-code-429/387362 "2023-09-21T17:15:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![couswabo3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/couswabo3/32/204141_2.png) [@couswabo3](https://community.openai.com/u/couswabo3)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/recurring-error-message-code-429/387362/1 "2023-09-21T17:15:58Z")
Hi, I just start a prepaid account. I did not use the free before it is expired. However every time I try to use the service I receive the same error: Failed to generate content using AI writer: gpt-3.5-turbo - error: Error: You exceeded your OpenAI quota limit, please wait a period for the quota to refill (chat initial call). I have $9.96 on the account and my free access is expired. Is there a solution to the problem. ---
**Author:** ![anon22939549](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@anon22939549](https://community.openai.com/u/anon22939549)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/recurring-error-message-code-429/387362/2 "2023-09-21T17:23:19Z")
Error 429 is a rate limit error, you need to slow down your requests. ---
**Author:** ![couswabo3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/couswabo3/32/204141_2.png) [@couswabo3](https://community.openai.com/u/couswabo3)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/recurring-error-message-code-429/387362/3 "2023-09-21T18:08:42Z")
I am trying to write 5 articles once. what do you mean by request? ---
**Author:** ![grandell1234](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/grandell1234/32/286916_2.png) [@grandell1234](https://community.openai.com/u/grandell1234)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 6:32pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/recurring-error-message-code-429/387362/4 "2023-09-21T18:32:26Z")
Welcome to the community! Requests are messages you are sending to it. So if you are asking it to write 5 articles it is responding a lot to your requests sparking the error message. ---
**Author:** ![couswabo3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/couswabo3/32/204141_2.png) [@couswabo3](https://community.openai.com/u/couswabo3)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/recurring-error-message-code-429/387362/5 "2023-09-21T18:51:34Z")
Really? It is not so powerful. Then let me try one simple article now and let you know if it works ---
**Author:** ![grandell1234](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/grandell1234/32/286916_2.png) [@grandell1234](https://community.openai.com/u/grandell1234)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/recurring-error-message-code-429/387362/6 "2023-09-21T19:03:14Z")
Not in power really, just keep in mind it takes around a quart of water to cool one of their servers about every 50 prompts. ---
**Author:** ![couswabo3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/couswabo3/32/204141_2.png) [@couswabo3](https://community.openai.com/u/couswabo3)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/recurring-error-message-code-429/387362/7 "2023-09-21T19:10:58Z")
Yes it works. Thanks but the article is too long. I understand why it won’t work for 5 like that. Look at the report below. Does that mean I use too much token. I should work on my prompt also I think. 1:40 PM Local time: Sep 21, 2023, 9:40 AM gpt-3.5-turbo-0613, 4 requests 1,686 prompt + 1,963 completion = 3,649 tokens ---
**Author:** ![grandell1234](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/grandell1234/32/286916_2.png) [@grandell1234](https://community.openai.com/u/grandell1234)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/recurring-error-message-code-429/387362/8 "2023-09-21T20:16:08Z")
Yep, if you need any more help just ask. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![\_j](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/_j/32/766292_2.png) [@\_j](https://community.openai.com/u/_j)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 8:03am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/recurring-error-message-code-429/387362/9 "2023-09-22T08:03:23Z")
Accounts that don’t have a payment method are limited to **three requests per minute** as a [documented rate limit](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/rate-limits/what-are-the-rate-limits-for-our-api). Then another limit for the first 48 hours after a payment method has been input, then another limit after 48 hours. Then new limits available based on approval of request using criteria. gpt-3.5-turbo limits of a paying mature account of 90,000 tokens per minute should take a decent amount of recurring token requests to reach, or specific patterns to result in a block. Tokens of a request input are estimated, and your max\_tokens considered as its rate consumption. For example, requesting n=100 for one-hundred runs of the chat completion, with max\_tokens of 3000 set, would be blocked by being estimated as a rate of 300,000+ tokens (even if it would run for five minutes of generation). You can discover [what tier your account is in](https://platform.openai.com/account/rate-limits) and what is needed to keep your requests per minute below that. ---
**Author:** ![EricGT](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/ericgt/32/20571_2.png) [@EricGT](https://community.openai.com/u/EricGT)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2023, 8:28am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/recurring-error-message-code-429/387362/10 "2023-12-18T08:28:55Z")
Closed on December 18, 2023, 8:28am UTC