Rate limit error

[gameveloster]

I'm getting an openai RateLimitError when embedding my chunked texts with "text-embedding-ada-002", which I have rate limited to 8 chunks of <1024 every 15 secs.

openai.error.RateLimitError: Rate limit reached for default-global-with-image-limits in organization org-xxx on requests per min. Limit: 60.000000 / min. Current: 70.000000 / min. Contact support@openai.com if you continue to have issues. Please add a payment method to your account to increase your rate limit. Visit https://beta.openai.com/account/billing to add a payment method.

Every 15 seconds, I'm calling this once;

for ...
    search_index.add_texts(texts=chunked[i : i + 8])
    time.sleep(15)

The chunks list chunked was created using

text_splitter = NLTKTextSplitter(chunk_size=1024)
chunked = [chunk for source in sources for chunk in text_splitter.split_text(source) ]

Why is my request rate exceeding 70/min when I'm only embedding at ~32 chunks/min? Does each chunk take more than 1 request to process?

Anyway to better rate limit my embedding queries? Thanks

[alvaropp]

Perhaps not quite the same scenario, but I'm getting exactly the same error when running the VectorDB Question Answering with Sources example.

Perhaps adding some exponential backoff as OpenAI recommend?

[GaurangTandon]

I ran into rate limits when using FAISS.from_texts on one markdown file with ~800 lines with the Question Answering with Sources sample. I worked around it like this. Posting in case it is useful for other users:

def chunks(lst, n):
  # https://stackoverflow.com/a/312464/18903720
  """Yield successive n-sized chunks from lst."""
  for i in range(0, len(lst), n):
    yield lst[i:i + n]

text_chunks = chunks(texts, 20) # adjust 20 based on your average character count per line
docsearch = None
for (index, chunk) in tqdm.tqdm(enumerate(text_chunks)):
  if index == 0:
    docsearch = FAISS.from_texts(texts, embeddings)
  else:
    time.sleep(60) # wait for a minute to not exceed any rate limits
    docsearch.add_texts(chunk)

[prashanthdumpuriNeurance]

Didn't work for me. Did OpenAI change something or am I missing something here?

Can you please help me?

[juliencarponcy]

Same for me today with the example at https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/use_cases/code/code-analysis-deeplake.html

Is their a way to integrate a solution to the example code to avoid it?

[EricLee911110]

Still having the same issue, I tried something like this: embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings() vector_store = FAISS.from_texts(texts=["example1", "example2"], embedding=embeddings) and vector_store = Chroma.from_texts(texts=["example1", "example2"], embedding=embeddings)

Got: Retrying langchain.embeddings.openai.embed_with_retry.<locals>._embed_with_retry in 4.0 seconds as it raised RateLimitError: You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details..

I'm passing a list that has a length of 2, and it is giving me RateLimitError.

Tried two versions of Langchain, 0.0.162 and 0.0.188, and both appeared with the same error.

[mahithsc]

I am running into the same issue, when using the function:

Chroma.from_texts

Did anyone manage to come up with a solution which gets around the rate limit.

Thinking of looping through texts in try except, and adding a sleep function for when the RateLimit is reached, then retrying.

[fullstackwebdev]

Any solution?

[getsean]

Is this the same issue you guys are getting?

Retrying langchain.embeddings.openai.embed_with_retry.._embed_with_retry in 4.0 seconds as it raised RateLimitError: You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details..

[ImcLiuQian]

Is this the same issue you guys are getting?

Retrying langchain.embeddings.openai.embed_with_retry.._embed_with_retry in 4.0 seconds as it raised RateLimitError: You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details..

yes

[lefta]

@getsean @ImcLiuQian (and any other that get « You exceeded your current quota » in the error message) : this has nothing to do with the original question. please see https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/issues/11914 instead.

[mahithsc]

The solution is to implement an exponential backoff or just a simple 10 second wait. Use try, except block and when the exception is hit, simply wait 10 seconds before running the function again.

[chintanmehta21]

I ran into rate limits when using FAISS.from_texts on one markdown file with ~800 lines with the Question Answering with Sources sample. I worked around it like this. Posting in case it is useful for other users:

def chunks(lst, n):
  # https://stackoverflow.com/a/312464/18903720
  """Yield successive n-sized chunks from lst."""
  for i in range(0, len(lst), n):
    yield lst[i:i + n]

text_chunks = chunks(texts, 20) # adjust 20 based on your average character count per line
docsearch = None
for (index, chunk) in tqdm.tqdm(enumerate(text_chunks)):
  if index == 0:
    docsearch = FAISS.from_texts(texts, embeddings)
  else:
    time.sleep(60) # wait for a minute to not exceed any rate limits
    docsearch.add_texts(chunk)

Is there a way to do the same for FAISS.from_documents() ?

[bilalProgTech]

I tried below method and it works for me,

vector_store = <your_vector_store>
documents = loader.load() #any loader that you used
for text in documents:
    vector_store.add_documents([text])