Hello i am having the following error, i

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The community member is experiencing an error where they are receiving "Too Many Requests" responses when trying to use the OpenAI API. The comments suggest that the issue may be related to the community member's OpenAI account not having enough credit. Some community members advise the original poster to check their account balance and purchase additional credits, as OpenAI now requires prepaid credit for usage. There is no explicitly marked answer, but the community members provide helpful suggestions to resolve the issue.

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FFran Piantoni

Hello i am having the following error, i know i am not making that many request per minute, it was working perfect until maybe 1 day and now it started failing;

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2024-05-08 13:15:21,369 - openai._base_client - INFO - Retrying request to /embeddings in 6.947019 seconds (_base_client.py:927)
2024-05-08 13:15:28,721 - httpx - INFO - HTTP Request: POST https://api.openai.com/v1/embeddings "HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests" (_client.py:1027)
2024-05-08 13:15:28,723 - openai._base_client - INFO - Retrying request to /embeddings in 7.414641 seconds (_base_client.py:927)
2024-05-08 13:15:36,494 - httpx - INFO - HTTP Request: POST https://api.openai.com/v1/embeddings "HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests" (_client.py:1027)
2024-05-08 13:15:36,495 - openai._base_client - INFO - Retrying request to /embeddings in 6.268730 seconds (_base_client.py:927)
^C^C



2024-05-08 13:15:43,168 - httpx - INFO - HTTP Request: POST https://api.openai.com/v1/embeddings "HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests" (_client.py:1027)
2024-05-08 13:15:43,169 - openai._base_client - INFO - Retrying request to /embeddings in 6.461716 seconds (_base_client.py:927)
2024-05-08 13:15:50,020 - httpx - INFO - HTTP Request: POST https://api.openai.com/v1/embeddings "HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests" (_client.py:1027)
2024-05-08 13:15:50,021 - llama_index.llms.openai_utils - WARNING - Retrying llama_index.embeddings.openai.get_embeddings in 0.20855130440353753 seconds as it raised 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'}}. (before_sleep.py:65)

10 comments

LLogan M

Do you have credit on your openai account? They changed it so that you have to pay ahead of time for credit

FFran Piantoni

Let me check

FFran Piantoni

I have my card loaded

FFran Piantoni

So it should be able to have it

LLogan M

thats not enough though, you have to actually buy credits (unless you enabled auto-recharge)

LLogan M