Why Can't I make call to the OpenAI 3.5 turbo model?

Good Morning,
I am a newbie and I got a $5 credit on my free tier. It was my first time to use OPenAI call , and I tried to make call to the OpenAI 3.5 Turbo model but I got an error message saying "{‘error’: {‘message’: ‘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.’, ‘type’: ‘insufficient_quota’, ‘param’: None, ‘code’: ‘insufficient_quota’}} > . I do not understand why it gave me message saying that I have insufficient credit eventhough I still have $5 credit on my free tier.

Could you help? Thanks alot!

Welcome to the community!

Free credits are no longer given out. I believe you’re misreading the somewhat confusing graph.

You’ll need to purchase at least $5 in credits to start.

Good place to start…

https://platform.openai.com/docs/quickstart