I am trying to use open AI API key from my local machine. However, when I try using one of the API key generated from my free trial account. I am getting the below error even though I haven’t made any API calls using this API key. Can some help me with this issue?
RateLimitError: You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details.
Hello @devarajanshiva
The error message suggests that you have hit a quota limit or your credits have expired, so you may need to upgrade your OpenAI API account. You can also open another account using a different email to get some more credits. Yes, some tips can be added to this. Check out this thread: Rate Limit Error - #6 by tom.doerr - API - OpenAI API Community Forum
You don’t need to upgrade your OpenAI account, at least not to get the exercises in this course running locally. I completed porting them all last night. The rate limit I encountered was 3 per minute. So for free, you can’t just hit ‘Run All’. Run a cell manually. Count to 20. Run the next one. No big deal.
**edit actually some of the cells in some of the notebooks have loops with multiple tasks. these do cause problems, but workarounds exist if you care enough
I was actually running only one cell. Still I am getting this error. I am not sure why
Sorry, I missed that it wasn’t on an ‘operational’ cell. I def get the rate error if I try ‘run all’, or even click through too fast, But running fine if I do it manually at a slow pace. Both last night and just now.
Do you have more than one key?
no, I just have one key. I even tried creating a new key and deleted the old one. But, didn’t work.
Thanks for the suggestion @Isaak_Kamau. This thread mostly suggests adding a payment method. Even that didn’t solve the issue for most of them. It seems to be an open issue as of now. I will try from a different Open API account and see if that works.
I tried with a new account and I am getting the same error even with the new account
looks like it’s also happening to people with paid accounts and available credit…
APIs are almost unusable because of RateLimitError
It’s unusable. I tried with my OpenAI API Key and thought there was a free rate limit of 3 per minute, but seems like it’s not free and would require a top-up.
Working for me!
I went here: OpenAI Platform and added a payment method to purchase a paid account. Set appropriate limits cause i am a broke student. Deleted old keys; created a new key, copy pasted the new key in the following code:
openai.api_key = ("sk-theNewKeyPastedHere")
and ran the code line by line as mentioned on the page and the video and it worked 
i keep working with the free version, i just imported another library that lets wating times in automatic so you don´t need to execute each block by separate, just “import time” and before each response add a “time.sleep(20)”