free_allowance_exhausted

What it means

This month's free allowance for the operation's meter is used up and paid usage is not enabled on the billing account. Nothing was accepted or charged. Validations and generations have separate allowances.

What to do

Enable paid usage in Billing, or wait for the free allowance to renew at reset_at, the start of the next UTC month.

What the response carries

type

https://ironfang.com/problems/free_allowance_exhausted, this page.

status

Always 429 for this code.

code

free_allowance_exhausted. Stable: branch on this, not on the wording of title or detail.

detail

What happened this time, safe to show to a person. It never carries invoice content.

request_id

The same value as the X-Ironfang-Request-ID header. Quote it to support.

retry_after_seconds

Never present for this code.

outcome

Absent. This code is not a statement about any document.

Problems follow RFC 9457 and are served as application/problem+json. A validation finding is never a Problem: an invalid invoice is a successful response that lists its findings. See every problem type, the Finance guide and the OpenAPI contract.