OpenAI API giving error: 429 Too Many Requests

I am trying to make a request to the openai API with the following code in express nodeJS:

import { Configuration, OpenAIApi } from "openai";

const configuration = new Configuration({
    organization: "org-Fn2EqsTpiUCTKb8m61wr6H8m",
    apiKey: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
});
const openai = new OpenAIApi(configuration);

async function callApi() {
    const response = await openai.createCompletion({
        model: "text-davinci-003",
        prompt: "Say this is a test",
        max_tokens: 3000,
        temperature: 0,
      });

    console.log(response.data.choices[0].text);
}

callApi();

The problem is that I keep getting error 429 Too many requests.

Here some more information:

• The API key is correct.
• When I go to my openai account > view API KEY: it shows that the key was never used so I have never been able to make a call. So how is it possibile that I'm getting error Too many requests?
• I have already tried to implement exponential backoff in the function, but it didn't work.

If you get the same error (429) after April 1st, that means your free trial 18$ (of all accounts registed before April) expired, even you haven't use api key once.

In your API Usage page, you will found like this:

GRANT #	CREDIT GRANTED	EXPIRES (UTC)
Grant 1	$18.00	Expired 2023-04-01

Good news is you can still use official web chat page.

I had the same issue. The reason was that I created my API key BEFORE converting my OpenAI account to paid (adding credit card). Doesn't matter if you only upgrade, you also need to create a new api key entirely.

I created another API key AFTER I added my credit card and it worked fine!

Not for OP, but in my case, the issue was that I needed to provide my organisation Id to the Configuration method like this:

import { Configuration } from "openai";

const configuration = new Configuration({
    organization: "org-xxxx",
    apiKey: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
});

You can get the organisation Id from this page: https://platform.openai.com/account/org-settings

The answer is in the error that you have received.

The error 429 Too Many Requests means that you have exceeded your free $18 in API credits. You can pay for more on the official website.

It's not possible that your key is correct but is not being used when you try to make a request. Double check that you are using the correct key in your code.