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Troubleshooting ChatGPT prompt creation errors due to quota issues

  • July 24, 2025
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Failed to create a prompt in ChatGPT (OpenAI)

[insufficient_quota] You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, read the docs:

If tried everything - OpenAI is payed, Payment is active, reconnect everything, rework everything, Key is working - but still this error comes.

Any body any help or idea?

Best answer by DennisWF

@blacknomb33r a couple of possibilities I can think of:

  • Your OpenAI account is funded, but the current request would exceed the remaining balance and you don’t have auto top-up enabled
  • Even if your account is funded and auto top-up is enabled, there are still token and usage limits. I think if it were a token limit issue, you would get a different error message, but you might be hitting the usage limit, which I think you can configure in your OpenAI account settings.

Have you tried making the same request outside of Zapier, e.g., in the OpenAI Playground (https://platform.openai.com/chat)?

 

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Troy Tessalone
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  • July 24, 2025

Hi ​@blacknomb33r 

Help links for using the ChatGPT/OpenAI Zap app: https://zapier.com/apps/chatgpt/integrations#help


DennisWF
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  • July 25, 2025

@blacknomb33r a couple of possibilities I can think of:

  • Your OpenAI account is funded, but the current request would exceed the remaining balance and you don’t have auto top-up enabled
  • Even if your account is funded and auto top-up is enabled, there are still token and usage limits. I think if it were a token limit issue, you would get a different error message, but you might be hitting the usage limit, which I think you can configure in your OpenAI account settings.

Have you tried making the same request outside of Zapier, e.g., in the OpenAI Playground (https://platform.openai.com/chat)?

 


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  • July 25, 2025

@DennisWF Hey, yes the problem was that OpenAI needs $15 of Funding. 
As is send $5 more to my account so that $15 are on it - everything worked fine! 

Thanks a lot!


DennisWF
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  • July 25, 2025

@blacknomb33r great to hear - glad we were able to sort it out!