Joseph Harrison-Lim

My personal website.

less than 1 minute read ai openai rate limit 429

I decided to try out OpenAI’s API for the first time yesterday. From what I saw within the developer dashboard, it seemed like I would be use it without paying anything up until a certain token or request limit. It seems like this was not the case. If you make an API request with the token you generate and you haven’t added any payment information and credits, you will always get a 429 error.

Ultimately it’s cheap enough to start with so I don’t mind, but worth sharing in case anyone else runs into this.

If you want to see what I’m using it for, check out total-thought. In Total Thought, users are able to write out topics to discuss, such as “Should I use the gym or build my own home gym?”, write the pros and cons of each (others can also contribute!), and then crowdsource upvotes on each pro and con. I am using gpt-4o-mini to summarize all of this data and try to give a reasonable suggestion on which one to choose.

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