# Upgrading to the Usage Tier 5

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/upgrading-to-the-usage-tier-5/907177>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [August 14, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/upgrading-to-the-usage-tier-5/907177 "2024-08-14T16:14:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![nazavr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@nazavr](https://community.openai.com/u/nazavr)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/upgrading-to-the-usage-tier-5/907177/1 "2024-08-14T16:14:17Z")

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Hi! My organization is currently at the Usage Tier 1, which was fine for dev purposes with LLM requests only. Now, we need to add DALL-E 3 integration as well, which only seems to have more or less reasonable rate limits for the real usage at Tier 5 (200 images/minute).  
According to the doc, 2 requirements must be met: $1,000 paid and 30+ days since first successful payment. The second condition is already completed, so my question is, is spending $1K enough to receive an upgrade to Tier 5? In other words, is it guaranteed that we’ll receive an upgrade after buying $1K worth of credits?  
The support bot mentions other “conditions” such as review by the OpenAI, usage patterns, etc. which are not mentioned in the doc.

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**Author:** ![trenton.dambrowitz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/trenton.dambrowitz/32/146436_2.png) [@trenton.dambrowitz](https://community.openai.com/u/trenton.dambrowitz)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/upgrading-to-the-usage-tier-5/907177/2 "2024-08-14T16:17:20Z")

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Hi and welcome to the dev community!

As I understand it, that should get you straight to tier 5.  
If I were you though I’d throw $50 in to see if you get given [tier 2](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/rate-limits/usage-tiers) automatically, then if you are just work your way up!

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**Author:** ![nazavr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@nazavr](https://community.openai.com/u/nazavr)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/upgrading-to-the-usage-tier-5/907177/3 "2024-08-14T16:23:17Z")

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Thanks for the quick response! Yeah, I also was thinking about doing these upgrades incrementally.  
It would be great though, if someone on the forum with the same use case could confirm this.

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**Author:** ![trenton.dambrowitz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/trenton.dambrowitz/32/146436_2.png) [@trenton.dambrowitz](https://community.openai.com/u/trenton.dambrowitz)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/upgrading-to-the-usage-tier-5/907177/4 "2024-08-14T16:24:51Z")

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In my experience the second I’ve met the conditions I’ve been almost immediately upgraded (as in within an hour) and I’m on tier 4 now. Obviously it makes sense to be cautious though so that’s why I recommended an incremental increase.