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[ekimminau]

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I am now frozen and cannot perform ANY copilot chat work. I have budgets set that havent been touched yet and I am only at 18% of my Premium token use. Why am I getting this message?:
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Server Error: Sorry, you have exceeded your Copilot token usage. Please review our Terms of Service. Error Code: rate_limited

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[IndAlok]

The 18% you see is your monthly quota, but the rate_limited error is actually about how fast you're sending tokens right now (Tokens Per Minute).

Basically, you haven't run out of money/credits, you've just hit a temporary speed wall. This usually happens because your chat history has gotten too long, or you're using a high-compute model.

Try this for fixing:

Clear the context: Open a brand new chat window (the + icon). If you've been in one long session, Copilot re-sends that entire history with every new message, which spikes your token count instantly.

Check your model: If you're using o1-preview or o1-mini, switch back to standard GPT-4o. The "o1" models have much stricter rate limits and will lock you out way faster.

Force a refresh: Sign out of GitHub in your IDE and sign back in. Sometimes the extension gets "stuck" in an error state and won't realize your 1-minute cooldown is actually over.

Give it 60 seconds of zero activity, start a fresh thread, and it should be fine.