# You exceeded your current quota

**URL:** https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/you-exceeded-your-current-quota/7732
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** [February 10, 2023, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/you-exceeded-your-current-quota/7732 "2023-02-10T09:19:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![AllMediaLab](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/allmedialab/32/2079_2.png) [@AllMediaLab](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/AllMediaLab)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2023, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/you-exceeded-your-current-quota/7732/1 "2023-02-10T09:19:40Z")

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Hi,

> You exceeded your current quota

The so called free account from Open AI only seems to work for a limited time! Because I created 5 images a couple of months ago it doesn’t work anymore. The only way to test this AI feature is to pay them ($ 18,-) and that’s not what I’m going to do.

David

 ![Screenshot 2023-02-10 at 10.20.09](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/pinegrow/original/2X/1/13277cc2ddf845c31a5ee820855b5c91a630f398.jpeg)

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### Author: ![matjaz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/matjaz/32/5_2.png) [@matjaz](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/matjaz)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2023, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/you-exceeded-your-current-quota/7732/2 "2023-02-10T09:28:42Z")

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@AllMediaLab rate limits on free OpenAI accounts are steep. That said, you don’t have to pay $18 for a paid account:

- You have $18 free credits
- Once these are used they will start to charge you on per use basis. There are no fixed monthly costs, only pay for as much as you use.

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### Author: ![AllMediaLab](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/allmedialab/32/2079_2.png) [@AllMediaLab](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/AllMediaLab)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2023, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/you-exceeded-your-current-quota/7732/3 "2023-02-10T09:48:57Z")

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If that is the case I had 20 images created in a very small size for $ 18,- That’s very expensive. And yes you pay what you use, but no one seems to know the real costs. If you use this on a daily basis the costs will be say “only € 1,-” a day that’s around € 375,- a year.

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### Author: ![matjaz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/matjaz/32/5_2.png) [@matjaz](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/matjaz)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2023, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/you-exceeded-your-current-quota/7732/4 "2023-02-10T10:15:23Z")

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Looking at your screenshot, you only spent $0.02, the rest of the $18 credit expired (it is only valid for 3 months or so).

Costs should be evaluated from the perspective of how much time the product saves you. Depending on that $1 / day can be expensive or cheap.