vens
December 24, 2025, 1:27pm
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LLM Call Failed │
│ Error: litellm.RateLimitError: RateLimitError: OpenAIException - exceeded quota for this month. Not able to complete the course due to this. What are the options here ?
TMosh
December 24, 2025, 7:21pm
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Sorry, I’m not a mentor for that course, and DL.AI staff is out of the office for the holiday season.
I’m not sure if there is anything you can do to fix this.
Perhaps someone from the community will have a suggestion.
are you running codes on platform or locally.
such error comes openapi key has user limit access per month, you need to wait for the next month cycle. or probably try after 24-48 hours see if it works.
This is guthub repo tells about this error, (you either pay for open API key personal, or the reason mentioned is not request tol many times in a minute
opened 06:34AM - 18 Jul 25 UTC
closed 07:14PM - 18 Jul 25 UTC
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└── 📋 Task: 5f5135ea-99a5-4e2b-9403-6dfeaa25640d
Status: Execut… ing Task...
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│ Error: litellm.RateLimitError: RateLimitError: OpenAIException - 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. │
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ERROR:root:LiteLLM call failed: litellm.RateLimitError: RateLimitError: OpenAIException - 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.
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RateLimitError Traceback (most recent call last)
[/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/litellm/llms/openai/openai.py](https://localhost:8080/#) in completion(self, model_response, timeout, optional_params, litellm_params, logging_obj, model, messages, print_verbose, api_key, api_base, api_version, dynamic_params, azure_ad_token, acompletion, logger_fn, headers, custom_prompt_dict, client, organization, custom_llm_provider, drop_params)
724 else:
--> 725 raise e
726 except OpenAIError as e:
34 frames
RateLimitError: Error code: 429 - {'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'}}
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
OpenAIError Traceback (most recent call last)
OpenAIError: Error code: 429 - {'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'}}
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
RateLimitError Traceback (most recent call last)
[/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/litellm/litellm_core_utils/exception_mapping_utils.py](https://localhost:8080/#) in exception_type(model, original_exception, custom_llm_provider, completion_kwargs, extra_kwargs)
299 if ExceptionCheckers.is_error_str_rate_limit(error_str):
300 exception_mapping_worked = True
--> 301 raise RateLimitError(
302 message=f"RateLimitError: {exception_provider} - {message}",
303 model=model,
RateLimitError: litellm.RateLimitError: RateLimitError: OpenAIException - 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.
So I guess try after 48 hours cycle, see if it works
Hey there @vens , as others have said, you have exceeded your openAI quota for the month. Once the next month starts you should get new credits allocated.
Are you taking the course on Coursera or the DeepLearning platform? If you give me your email (the one you used to register ) I’ll see what I can do, but given that most of the team is away for the holidays I can’t promise a fast solution.
Another thing you can do is use your own API key for openAI, the labs should be well within the free monthly limit. You can create one by signing in here .
Then, in the notebooks, you would need to replace the line os.environ[“OPENAI_API_KEY”] = get_openai_api_key() with:
os.environ[“OPENAI_API_KEY”] = "<your_api_key>“
os.environ[“OPENAI_API_BASE”]=“``https://api.openai.com/v1”
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