Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT · warning · HTTPException

Insufficient credits to reset your rate limit.

Error message

Insufficient credits to reset your rate limit.

What it means

HTTP 402 from POST /usage/reset (routes.py:1108). After all eligibility checks pass, the endpoint charges the user via credit_model.spend_credits (metadata reason 'CoPilot daily rate limit reset'). If the user's balance is below the reset cost, spend_credits raises InsufficientBalanceError which is mapped to 402. No credits are moved.

Source

Thrown at autogpt_platform/backend/backend/api/features/chat/routes.py:1108

        # won't help — the user would still be blocked by the weekly limit.
        if weekly_limit > 0 and usage_status.weekly.used >= weekly_limit:
            raise HTTPException(
                status_code=400,
                detail="Your weekly limit is also reached. Resetting the daily limit won't help.",
            )

        # Charge credits.
        credit_model = await get_user_credit_model(user_id)
        try:
            remaining = await credit_model.spend_credits(
                user_id=user_id,
                cost=cost,
                metadata=UsageTransactionMetadata(
                    reason="CoPilot daily rate limit reset",
                ),
            )
        except InsufficientBalanceError as e:
            raise HTTPException(
                status_code=402,
                detail="Insufficient credits to reset your rate limit.",
            ) from e

        # Reset daily usage in Redis.  If this fails, refund the credits
        # so the user is not charged for a service they did not receive.
        if not await reset_daily_usage(user_id, daily_cost_limit=daily_limit):
            # Compensate: refund the charged credits as a GRANT (no Stripe
            # charge — TOP_UP is reserved for real user-initiated checkouts).
            refunded = False
            try:
                await credit_model.grant_credits(
                    user_id,
                    cost,
                    "Refund for failed CoPilot rate-limit reset",
                )
                refunded = True
                logger.warning(

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Solutions

1. Top up credits (purchase flow) and retry the reset.
2. Client-side: compare the user's current balance against rate_limit_reset_cost (both exposed via the credit/usage endpoints) and disable or annotate the reset button when insufficient.
3. Handle 402 as a distinct 'payment required' case in the client — do not retry automatically.

Example fix

// before
await post('/chat/usage/reset'); // 402 surprises users

// after — pre-check balance
if (balance < usage.rate_limit_reset_cost) {
  showTopUpPrompt();
} else {
  await post('/chat/usage/reset');
}

// pre-check balance against the known reset cost
const [balance, usage] = await Promise.all([getBalance(), getUsageStatus()]);
if (balance < usage.rate_limit_reset_cost) {
  showTopUpPrompt(usage.rate_limit_reset_cost - balance);
} else {
  await post('/chat/usage/reset');
}

try { await post('/chat/usage/reset'); } catch (e) { if (e.status === 402) { redirectToTopUp(); return; } throw e; }

When it happens

Trigger: User balance < config.rate_limit_reset_cost (default 500 credits/cents) at the moment of the charge; a race where a concurrent turn drained the balance between the UI check and the reset call.

Common situations: Free-tier users with small balances seeing the reset option; balance displayed in a different unit than the cost (credits vs cents); concurrent CoPilot activity spending the balance first.

Related errors

• Rate limit reset is not available.
• Rate limit reset is not available (credit system is disabled
• You've used all {config.max_daily_resets} resets for today.
• Your weekly limit is also reached. Resetting the daily limit
• No daily limit is configured — nothing to reset.

AI-assisted analysis of Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT@9c8bb5550f (2026-08-14). Data as JSON: /api/errors/30010e297b43a162. Report an issue: GitHub.