I’d like to give the API a try but I run into the following when I try to hit the gpt-3.5-turbo model with a curl (following the instructions here ): "error": { "message": "You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details.", "type": "insufficient_quota"…

Welcome @michaelchase You’ll only be able to use it if you have active credit grant(s). You can check yours here , it should show on the right side. If you don’t have a grant, you’ll have to add a payment method and load credits. If that doesn’t work contact OpenAI

@daminibhattacharya8 The rest of your $18.00 credit grant had expired and is no longer valid - you’d need to set up a payment method to use the services through the API

Alright and post this, I will be able to use the chatgpt api for my personal projects right? Isn’t there a developer mode?

[image] daminibhattacharya8: I will be able to use the chatgpt api for my personal projects right? Yes, subject to the Policies and TOS you can use the API however you’d like! Just be aware of the fact you need to pay for your usage [image] daminibhattacharya8: Isn’t there a developer mo…

Hi @daminibhattacharya8 Welcome to the dev forum. The credits are expired. Unlike other APIs , this one interfaces with LLMs. These LLMs consume significant compute, hence the usage isn’t free. The free credit grant is the dev-mode as it’s free and rate limited. Once you add a payment method, y…

Hey thank you for replying. What is the procedure to apply for Dev mode?

Hi, There is no “developer mode” there is the API which anyone can use, but typically is only used by developers and then there is ChatGPT which is aim more towards non programmatic use.

As @Foxalabs states there’s no dev mode, just the free credit grant. The grant is a one-time thing automatically credited to eligible OpenAI accounts upon creation and phone verification.

Very interesting, because I am just learning about this one-time credit grant. I just checked, mine was received Aug 31, 2023 and expired Dec 31 last year. I am just trying out the API also. Honestly, I don’t recall notification on this free-credit.

Yes, that’s a known issue that occurs because OAI uses the same account for API and ChatGPT. Hence, users who sign up for ChatGPT get their grant activated and usually don’t know if it’s been activated. I like the idea of sending the user a notification when their grant has been activated, so at l…

Understanding API limits and free tier

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daminibhattacharya8 January 9, 2024, 3:44pm 3

So currently, it looks like I have used 0 out of my 18$ limit yet I am still rate limited.
Why?

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