Standard Compute

LLM API Troubleshooting

Fix the API errors that break your agent

Clear, accurate fixes for the LLM API errors developers hit most — 429 rate limits, “quota exceeded”, context length, overloaded servers, and the agent-specific ones that stall OpenClaw and Hermes. Causes, step-by-step fixes, and how to stop hitting them.

Rate limits

OpenAI “Rate limit reached for requests” (429)

OpenAI tokens-per-minute (TPM) rate limit

429Any provider

429 Too Many Requests — what it means & how to fix

429Anthropic (Claude)

Anthropic / Claude rate limit exceeded (429)

529Anthropic (Claude)

Anthropic “Overloaded” error (529)

OpenAI “The server is overloaded” (503)

OpenClaw “API rate limit reached” (429)

Why your AI agent keeps getting rate limited (and how to stop it)

Gemini CLI “Quota exceeded” (429) — how to fix

Cline “API Request Failed” 429 — how to fix

429Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent keeps hitting rate limits — how to fix

Quota & billing

OpenAI “You exceeded your current quota” (insufficient_quota)

OpenAI monthly usage / billing hard limit reached

“Quota exceeded — please use your own API key” explained

Cursor “You've hit your usage limit” — how to fix

Claude Code “usage limit reached” — how to fix

Codex “You've hit your usage limit” — 3 Fixes + How to Remove the Cap (2026)

GitHub Copilot premium requests exhausted — how to fix

Windsurf out of credits — how to fix

Claude weekly limit — when it resets and how to keep working

Model limits

400Any provider

“Maximum context length exceeded” — what it means & how to fix

404OpenAI / OpenAI-compatible

“The model does not exist or you do not have access”

Auth

401OpenAI / OpenAI-compatible

“Incorrect API key provided” (401) — how to fix

Agent errors

OpenClaw “conflicting plugin install metadata” (shared SQLite state) — how to fix

Tired of fixing rate limits?

Most of these errors share one root cause: per-token, per-minute metering. Standard Compute is flat-rate with no usage limits, no per-minute caps, and automatic failover — so agents degrade gracefully instead of throwing 429s. See what you'd pay → · How it connects →