Tier upgrade not working from free to tier 1

I have a problem where I have attached a billing account to my project but I never get the option appearing to upgrade my account to tier 1. I am hitting rate limits which is slowing down my ability to test my app :frowning: . Ive tried contacting billing support but im getting nowhere. Is anyone else having problems with this feature?

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Got same issue how to solve this

I appreciate this is frustrating (after all if they claim to offer this feature they should act upon it!) - but if you’re genuinely stuck due to tier 1 rate limits I’d strongly suggest using Google Vertex AI instead. Same models, similar API and the billing is under your control. Plus it hooks to all their other services like AI Search.