I am trying to investigate OpenAI API but I found out that Free tier rate limits do not provide the announced rights.

There are announced limits for the Free plan:

We can see I am able (it is supposed) to use dall-e-2, gpt-3.5-turbo, and others. With restrictions – but able!

But when I try to send a request or even use GPT in chat I receive errors that I reached usage limits, although I just today was registered and never made requests before:

curl https://api.openai.com/v1/images/generations -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-proj-************" -d "{"model": "dall-e-3", "prompt": "a white siamese cat", "n": 1, "size": "1024x1024"}"
{
  "error": {
    "code": "billing_hard_limit_reached",
    "message": "Billing hard limit has been reached",
    "param": null,
    "type": "invalid_request_error"
  }
}

My usage dashboard is empty since I use no one request. So I just running by the circle and can’t deal with how to use the OpanAI API