Hey there, I just started the AI Engineering course and was running into a 429 error saying that I had hit my quota, even though I had just made a new OpenAI account. Apparently, as of mid-2025, OpenAI have stopped giving free credits upon signup. I am unable to do the exercises in the course, whi…

[image] Orbiccode: Hey there, I just started the AI Engineering course and was running into a 429 error saying that I had hit my quota, even though I had just made a new OpenAI account. Apparently, as of mid-2025, OpenAI have stopped giving free credits upon signup. I am unable to do the exerc…

There is a way around this: Vercel offers $5 free credits per month for its AI gateway, which has also access to the OpenAI models among others. It is also compatible with the OpenAI SDK So you can just use the Vercel API key in place of the OpenAI API key use the Vercel Base URL https://ai-gate…

OpenAI no Longer offers free credits

roku (Roku from Scrimba) August 27, 2025, 6:44am 4

Interesting! Thanks for the info @Bugdeveloper

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