# {'message': 'update vector: failed with status: 429 error: Rate limit reached. Please log in or use your apiToken'}

**URL:** https://forum.weaviate.io/t/message-update-vector-failed-with-status-429-error-rate-limit-reached-please-log-in-or-use-your-apitoken/1000
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 22, 2023, 6:31am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/message-update-vector-failed-with-status-429-error-rate-limit-reached-please-log-in-or-use-your-apitoken/1000 "2023-11-22T06:31:55Z")
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### Author: ![TDI\_Commons](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/tdi_commons/32/679_2.png) [@TDI\_Commons](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/TDI_Commons)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 6:31am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/message-update-vector-failed-with-status-429-error-rate-limit-reached-please-log-in-or-use-your-apitoken/1000/1 "2023-11-22T06:31:55Z")

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i am not sure if this is because of making too many requests or what, i even gave my billing information, yet its coming. please let me know how to fix this.

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### Author: ![DudaNogueira](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/dudanogueira/32/7846_2.png) [@DudaNogueira](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/DudaNogueira)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 12:00pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/message-update-vector-failed-with-status-429-error-rate-limit-reached-please-log-in-or-use-your-apitoken/1000/2 "2023-11-22T12:00:48Z")

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Hi @TDI_Commons ! Welcome to our community 🤗

You will probably need to throttle your imports, or increase the api rate limit with your vector provider.

> **[text2vec-openai | Weaviate - vector database](https://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/modules/retriever-vectorizer-modules/text2vec-openai#import-throttling)**
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> Overview

Let me know if that helps 🙂