# How does organization billing work for API usage? **URL:** \ **Category:** Beginners\ **Created:** [December 22, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-does-organization-billing-work-for-api-usage/66751 "2023-12-22T18:17:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![iSimcha-David](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e56c9b/32.png) [@iSimcha-David](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/iSimcha-David)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-does-organization-billing-work-for-api-usage/66751/5 "2024-01-12T15:51:59Z")
> Inference API is free and rate limited, aimed at playing around/demo’ing with a machine learning model. This is not true. When using the Inference API, I recieved the following error. It seems the Inference API is free and rate limited **for some models** ; other models require a PRO account. ``` Model requires a Pro subscription; check out hf.co/pricing to learn more. Make sure to include your HF token in your query. ``` Searching for the error message led me to this [post](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/free-models-using-api/55532/2) from September 2023. > We’ll release some docs on this soon. At the moment, only Llama 2 chat models require PRO. I checked the docs and it does not state anything about “Llama 2” requiring a PRO subscription plan. Hugging Face’s idea of “soon” is more than several months. This brings me back to my original question which is answered indirectly by lack of an answer: **Organizations cannot pay for PRO accounts for developers.** From an organizational standpoint, the only way to develop with Llama 2 models is to upgrade my personal account using the oranization CC and then add my personal access token as a secret to GitHUb Secrets. This is not a desirable path, nor is it clearly explained in the docs or the forums. > Let me know if you have additional questions 🙂 we also have a support email at [api-enterprise@huggingface.co](mailto:api-enterprise@huggingface.co) if you have further questions I never received a response from `api-enterprise@huggingface.co` that I sent 3 weeks ago. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-does-organization-billing-work-for-api-usage/66751)._