Is there a way to test without paying in the OpenAI account after the initial free credits have expired?

[petervandenabeele]

I tried the actual usage, but always hit the error:

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RateLimitError: You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details.

So, I quickly landed on this "usage" page ...

https://platform.openai.com/account/usage

That made clear that my initial free credits expired on 1 April 2023.

So, to be able to test the program, is the only way to actually start paying for the API access, or are there other options?

I retried my "evals" branch https://github.com/openai/evals/compare/main...petervandenabeele:evals:new-eval-tellen-nederlands that had worked OK in March 2023, and now in April, it gave the same RateLimitError exception (interestingly that program has a back-off retry mode to survive the scenario's of slow service or network etc.)