# ai_credit_exhausted

HTTP 402 · AI gateway (SPEC §14.2)

AI credit is used up. Add credit or switch to your own provider key.

## Does retrying help?

Not until something else changes. The message says what: a plan, an add-on, a setting or a role. The same request then works.

## The response

Every Flatstack error has this shape. `details`, when present, says more about this case.

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "ai_credit_exhausted",
    "message": "AI credit is used up. Add credit or switch to your own provider key.",
    "docsUrl": "https://flatstack.dev/docs/errors/ai_credit_exhausted"
  }
}
```

[All error codes](/docs/errors)