I have been using the API text-to-image inference for a few months, always at the same usage level and pretty much the same model (prithivMLmods/Canopus-LoRA-Flux-UltraRealism-2.0), and never met my monthly max…but now after 4 days I got the 402 error saying that I already reached my max allowed… “You have exceeded your monthly included credits for Inference Providers. Subscribe to PRO to get 20x more monthly allowance.” did anything change in terms of the limits for free tiers??!

Maybe related: [image] Pro Account $2 inference limit Beginners Hi! New to huggingface - dumb question. I created a pro account because I wanted to run inference with a particular model (OpenBioLLM 70B). It gave me $2 of inference and then “pay as you go.” I set up my code calling this model - everything worked on some small test dataset - so I decided to run it on the full load. But now I get an error response saying “You have exceeded your monthly included credits for Inference Providers. Pay-as-you-go above your included PRO quota will be available soon.”…

ok so if I understand correctly, this should soon-ish be fixed hopefully for the better?

Hi, I had the same experience. I had been using LLaMa-3.3-70B for several months through a PRO subscription. I compare summarization results on news stories (40-70 stories/day, 700-2,500 tokens) for different models/APIs each day, GPT-40, Gemini, LLaMa-3.3-70B, etc. When I got rate-limited, I opened a second acount to see what the “shadow charge” on PRO users was. Over two days, I used the $2 credit after around 80 stories. The equivalent charge from OpenAI was ~$0.40. Is the coming PRO “pay as you go” likely to be that high? Thanks, -Charlie Dolan PS Really miss using LLaMa-3.3-70B because it was very often right on the mark summariizing long discursive news analysis and blog posts when GPT-4o, Sonnet 3.5 and Gemini 2.0 all wiffed.

If you need to use Llama asap try Groq, they have a free tier you can use via API while they fix HF API issues…which hopefully will be soon :crossed_fingers:

Hi, I just noted the start of “pay as you go” for PRO. (a) Thanks for the quick implementation. The time to update the total due on the billing page is super quick–just as fast as OpenAI and faster than Google or Anthropic. Cudos. (b) It looks like the cost is pretty close to what I saw before, so less competitive than commercial (5-8x), but still reasonable given HuggingFace is non-profit and provides a high quality environment for models that are hard to access otherwise. (c) With this pricing, I can continue to use my PRO subscription to access LLaMa-3.3-70B (or other open source), not as a primary summarization tool, but I can use it as a check when one of the hyper-scalers wiffs on a new summary. Probably closer to what PRO is meant for ;->. (d) At some point, I will try to use an Inference Endpoint on Hugging Face to get a per-story cost for just compute (after one pays to spin up the instance). (e) Thanks again!

Hi, I finally got a chance to intergrate the Inference API working on the machines where I read new summaries, and I noticed the following behaviors: (1) I was require to re-request authorization for LLaMa-3.3-70B; (2) after it came through as ACCEPTED on the “Gated Repos Status” page, it took a few hours to flow throught to the Inference API, and (3) it does not seem to charge anything when I look for updates on the Billing page under inference usage, i.e., it still shows $2.74 dues balance that I generated on my last experiement. Is this new new behaviour or will I see the charges eventually? Thanks, -Charlie PS I still have not tried an Inference Endpoint for a large number of summaries with LLaMa-3.3-70B.

I think there might have been recent changes to Hugging Face’s free tier limits for inference API. One of my student been using the same model and usage level consistently, so this sudden limit seems like a policy update on their end. Check and read Hugging Face’s recent announcements or documentation. Look it might show a billing section in your account dashboard. If it’s urgent, the PRO subscription might be worth it temporarily until you figure out the details.

I think there might have been recent changes to Hugging Face’s free tier limits for inference API. One of my student been using the same model and usage level consistently, so this sudden limit seems like a policy update on their end. Definitely this is the reason. Other suggestions do not make any sense and are beside the point. Huggingface lacks transparency about these matters. It’s a shame.

API inference limit changed?

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