ChatGPT was unable to find answer Error code 429

[noble pecan]

Am using the openai Api on a project am working on but it keeps returning status code 429 anything I request for a response, keeps saying
"ChatGPT was unable to find answer for that!(Error: Request failed with status code 429).

[next arch]

view the error code here

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/error-codes

it seems that there is a problem with your api keys

[noble pecan]

None of the error code has solution to mine

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isn’t it 429?

[noble pecan]

Yes it is

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have you checked your api key?

also check the hard limit

[noble pecan]

Yes I have

[noble pecan]

Am just using it so I don't think it's limit issue

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emm are you using a paid account?

[noble pecan]

No

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view your usage here https://platform.openai.com/account/usage

Have you used all your free grants?

You have a 18 dollars of free grant

[noble pecan]

Let me check

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Oh no another one

this is a common issue these days

[noble pecan]

Oh I hope it's a simple solution

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are you using a phone number used before?

[noble pecan]

No

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That’s a weird problem, many people meet this, I think you can contact the support on the website or just set up a paid account with a credit

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set up a paid account will immediately solve this

[noble pecan]

How much is the least paid account

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you just pay for the tokens you use

[noble pecan]

Okay

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there isn’t a specific amount

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please view here https://openai.com/api/pricing/

not very expensive i suppose

[noble pecan]

I can't pay from Nigeria

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Ah sorry to hear that

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you may contact the support on the website in order to get the free grants

[noble pecan]

Okay

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ah don’t say this

[noble pecan]

Ops

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you should say you don’t have a free grants

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the 429 is caused by this

[noble pecan]

Okay

[noble pecan]

I was able to fix it