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Kimi Code Quota Errors: Which Limit Did You Hit?
This page maps documented error text to a clock and a recovery action. Current published limit structure stays on the usage-limits guide.
Direct answer
Which Kimi Code limit did this error hit?
- Read the message, not the status code
- Fact Official docs document three quota 403 families with different wording: 5-hour, weekly (7-day), and monthly billing-cycle. HTTP 403 alone is not a diagnosis.
- Quota vs not quota
- Fact Concurrent-request 403 is risk-control, not remaining quota. 429 is rate-limit or overload. 401/402 are auth or membership verification.
- If the wording is generic
- Unknown — account-dependent A generic “usage limit for this billing cycle” sentence without the official monthly wording is insufficient context. TraceCheck does not force a clock.
- Last verified
- Sep 8, 2026, 8:00 PM UTC
Documented quota-error families
| Documented error text | Likely clock | Reset / recovery | Check | TraceCheck cannot know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| You've reached your 5-hour usage limit | Fact Rolling 5-hour Kimi Code request window | Resets when the current 5-hour window ends. Official docs say to check the reset time in the Kimi Code Console. | Kimi Code Console remaining credits and rate-limit status for the current 5-hour window | Exact remaining requests in the window from the error alone; Which membership tier maps to the published 300–1,200 request range |
| You've reached your weekly (7-day) usage limit | Fact Separate Kimi Code weekly / 7-day quota (5 hours per week from the subscription date) | Kimi Code subscription quota refreshes every 7 days from the subscription date and does not roll over. | Kimi Code Console weekly usage for the current 7-day window | Exact remaining weekly hours from the error alone; A reconstructed weekly dollar or request total from community posts |
| You've reached your monthly usage limit for this billing cycle | Fact Shared Kimi membership monthly credit pool for the billing cycle | Refreshes at the start of the next membership billing cycle, not a calendar month. Official docs say the monthly pool is shared across membership features; once it is exhausted, Kimi Code is frozen even if a Kimi Code weekly remainder exists. | Kimi subscription / membership page for monthly credit percentage and next refresh time | The stable public numeric monthly credit total; Whether a generic 'billing cycle' error without the monthly wording is this clock |
How to distinguish the clocks
- Short window: the official message names the 5-hour usage limit and says the quota resets when the current 5-hour window ends.
- Weekly / 7-day: the official message names the weekly (7-day) usage limit. Kimi Code quota refreshes every 7 days from the subscription date and does not roll over.
- Billing-cycle / monthly: the official message names the monthly usage limit for this billing cycle. That pool is shared across membership features. Official docs say Kimi Code freezes when the monthly total is exhausted even if a Kimi Code weekly remainder exists.
- API-side / non-quota: 429 overload, 401 invalid key or Open Platform mix-up, 402 membership verification, and concurrent-request 403 are not subscription quota clocks.
Errors that are not subscription quota
| Documented family | HTTP | What it is | What to do |
|---|---|---|---|
| You've reached your concurrent request limit | 403 | Fact Concurrent request risk-control limit, not a subscription quota clock | Official docs say this 403 is triggered by risk-control policy, is unrelated to remaining quota, and follows the appeal process. Retrying as if it were a usage window does not apply. |
| We're receiving too many requests | 429 | Fact HTTP 429 rate-limit / overload — not a Kimi Code subscription quota clock | Official docs classify this with rate limits and overload, not the 5-hour, weekly, or monthly membership quotas. |
| The engine is currently overloaded | 429 | Fact HTTP 429 inference-engine overload — not a Kimi Code subscription quota clock | Official docs classify this with rate limits and overload, not membership quota. |
| The API Key appears to be invalid or may have expired | 401 | Fact Authentication failure — not a quota clock | Official docs say do not retry as a quota wait. Fix credentials. Kimi Code keys and the Kimi Open Platform are separate systems. |
| unable to verify your membership benefits | 402 | Fact Membership-benefit verification failure — not a 5-hour, weekly, or monthly quota clock | Official docs describe this as usually temporary: confirm the membership is active, wait, and retry. It is not a documented quota reset. |
What not to infer
- Do not infer exact remaining quota from one error.
- Do not treat community reconstructions of weekly dollars or request totals as current Fact. Kimi no longer publishes a request count for the 5-hour window, and no error reveals one.
- Do not collapse every 403 into the weekly quota.
- Third-party clients may re-wrap status codes. Official docs say to match the error text.
Unknown — account-dependent TraceCheck cannot see your Console bars. If Extra Usage is enabled, official membership docs say requests can continue on that balance after included quota is exhausted.
Freshness
Named sources: Kimi Code error reference, membership benefits, overview, and membership overview. Review trigger: a change to documented 403/429 families, Extra Usage recovery wording, or the monthly shared-pool freeze rule.
Last verified Sep 8, 2026, 8:00 PM UTC