# Adding Payment method doesn't work

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/adding-payment-method-doesnt-work/149252>\
**Category:** Beginners\
**Created:** [April 7, 2025, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/adding-payment-method-doesnt-work/149252 "2025-04-07T11:14:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 13\
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**Author:** ![Syllab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Syllab](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Syllab)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/adding-payment-method-doesnt-work/149252/1 "2025-04-07T11:14:55Z")

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Hello there,

I’m trying to add a payment method in order to use inference api above free limits. I added my credit card, but i have no temporay hold and it seems my payment method is not working but i have no clue on what’s going on ☹

Thre’s no error, my card seems to ba added but no payment.

Can somebody help me ?

Thanks 🙂

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**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/adding-payment-method-doesnt-work/149252/2 "2025-04-07T13:15:00Z")

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I wonder what kind of situation this is…? @meganariley Payment method related error?

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**Author:** ![meganariley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/meganariley/32/56966_2.png) [@meganariley](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/meganariley)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/adding-payment-method-doesnt-work/149252/3 "2025-04-09T19:19:56Z")

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Hi @Syllab Your payment method was successfully added to your account, though let us know if you still see any errors .

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**Author:** ![Syllab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Syllab](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Syllab)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/adding-payment-method-doesnt-work/149252/4 "2025-04-11T09:36:43Z")

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ok now i see an error related to free limit exceeded. I thought that adding my payment method will charge my card and will unlock those limits ?

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**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/adding-payment-method-doesnt-work/149252/5 "2025-04-11T09:55:17Z")

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It should be OK like that.

> [@402 Client Error: Payment Required for url: https://router.huggingface.co/hf-inference/models/meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct/v1/chat/completions (Request ID: Root=1-67e420cf-1ec0ac2a3a3102965c52fe0f;8fe0d876-5406-4953-9fd4-e7b03cd17bb5)](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/402-client-error-payment-required-for-url-https-router-huggingface-co-hf-inference-models-meta-llama-llama-3-3-70b-instruct-v1-chat-completions-request-id-root-1-67e420cf-1ec0ac2a3a3102965c52fe0f-8fe0d876-5406-4953-9fd4-e7b03cd17bb5/148414):
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> I am a PRO user, and I want to run the following code, but it persistently throws the Payment required error. Could you please help me to fix the issue? # Multi-Agent Document Processing System # Using SmolAgent and SmolDocling for document extraction, analysis, visualization, and web searches # Import necessary modules from smolagents import CodeAgent, HfApiModel, tool, DuckDuckGoSearchTool import json import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from wordcloud import WordCloud import nltk from nltk.cor…

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**Author:** ![Syllab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Syllab](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Syllab)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 7:44am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/adding-payment-method-doesnt-work/149252/6 "2025-04-12T07:44:35Z")

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I checked all permissions, everything is ok. I tried to generate another token, same error with “Payment required”. I don’t know what’s going on…

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**Author:** ![Fyahdii](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/fyahdii/32/50610_2.png) [@Fyahdii](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Fyahdii)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/adding-payment-method-doesnt-work/149252/9 "2025-07-04T10:09:12Z")

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Were you able to resolve this? Encountering the same currently.

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**Author:** ![meganariley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/meganariley/32/56966_2.png) [@meganariley](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/meganariley)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/adding-payment-method-doesnt-work/149252/10 "2025-07-07T15:34:17Z")

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Hi @Fyahdii Once you’ve used up your free credits, you can add a card in your billing settings: [Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.](https://huggingface.co/settings/billing) and subscribe to PRO: [Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.](https://huggingface.co/subscribe/pro) to access [pay-as-you-go billing support](https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/en/pricing#pay-as-you-go-details). Let us know if you have questions!

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**Author:** ![Fyahdii](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/fyahdii/32/50610_2.png) [@Fyahdii](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Fyahdii)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/adding-payment-method-doesnt-work/149252/11 "2025-07-08T09:08:17Z")

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Hi Megan @meganariley thank you! The account I am using has a PRO subscription which is why I found the errors strange.

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**Author:** ![meganariley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/meganariley/32/56966_2.png) [@meganariley](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/meganariley)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/adding-payment-method-doesnt-work/149252/12 "2025-07-08T14:20:09Z")

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Hi @Fyahdii Can you share the username of your account here? You can also email [website@huggingface.co](mailto:website@huggingface.co).

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**Author:** ![Fyahdii](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/fyahdii/32/50610_2.png) [@Fyahdii](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Fyahdii)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/adding-payment-method-doesnt-work/149252/13 "2025-07-09T08:22:13Z")

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Thanks, I’ve just sent the email

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**Author:** ![GeorgeQRInsights](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ccd318/32.png) [@GeorgeQRInsights](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/GeorgeQRInsights)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/adding-payment-method-doesnt-work/149252/14 "2025-08-14T08:06:09Z")

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@meganariley I have added my business account to my payment methods and I cannot access the inference API due to this error: You have exceeded your monthly included credits for Inference Providers. Subscribe to PRO to get 20x more monthly included credits.

I assume my account change is taking a moment to propagate? Can I just check that by adding a valid payment method I can actually access the Inference API endpoint beyond the monthly free limit?

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**Author:** ![meganariley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/meganariley/32/56966_2.png) [@meganariley](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/meganariley)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/adding-payment-method-doesnt-work/149252/15 "2025-08-14T15:45:06Z")

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Hi @GeorgeQRInsights We offer pay-as-you-go billing for [PRO](https://huggingface.co/pro) subscribers once your monthly free credits have been exhausted - more here: [Pricing and Billing](https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/en/pricing) . Subscribe to PRO for 20x more inference usage, 8x ZeroGPU quota, 10x private storage capacity, and more: [Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.](https://huggingface.co/settings/billing/subscription).
