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

Quota exceeded — please use your own API key

This message comes from an app or agent that bundled a shared, limited key for trials. The shared free quota ran out, so it’s asking you to plug in your own API key to keep going.

What causes it

  • The tool shipped with a shared demo key on a small free quota that’s now exhausted.
  • You hit the app’s per-user free allowance.

How to fix it

  1. Create your own API key with a provider and paste it into the app’s settings.
  2. Make sure that key has billing/credit so it doesn’t immediately hit the same wall.
  3. Pick a provider whose limits fit how hard your agent runs.

Running an agent? Agent frameworks like OpenClaw show this when their bundled trial key is spent. Your own flat-rate key removes the recurring wall.

Paying a fixed monthly price instead

Flat-rate APIs and coding plans compared →
18 plans with their price, the limit each one sets and where your data goes.

Keep working on a fixed monthly plan

When you do bring your own key, point it at Standard Compute (https://api.stdcmpt.com/v1, model “standardcompute”): flat-rate compute means the “quota exceeded” wall doesn’t come back.

OpenAI-compatible settings
Base URL  https://api.stdcmpt.com/v1
API key   YOUR_API_KEY
Model     standardcompute
Get your API key How it connects

Plans from $19 a month with $19 of compute. Eligible new accounts can try $0.25 of compute first, no card. Trial terms

FAQ

Which API key should I use?

Any OpenAI-compatible key works. For agents that run constantly, a flat-rate key avoids re-hitting quota walls that per-token keys keep running into.

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