# InsufficientCredits

> The org's available credits do not cover the hold that the action reserves before it starts.

Source: https://www.nodus-compute.ai/docs/reference/errors/insufficient-credits/
Build revision: 4ebfc6023eeed1bd55d9969af1612182a7b0c7ff

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**HTTP status:** 402 · **Retryable:** no

The org’s available credits do not cover the hold that the action reserves before it starts.

## Message

```text
{subject} needs a {need} hold to start (released when it ends); available {available}
```

## What to do

add credits with `nodus billing top-up {topUp}`, or lower spec.maxCostUSD

## On the wire

The response is a Kubernetes `Status` with `reason: InsufficientCredits` and `code: 402`, plus `fix`, `docs` (this page) and `requestId`. `details.causes` lists the fields involved, when there are any. The CLI prints the fix and the request id; the Python SDK raises `nodus.errors.InsufficientCredits`.

`details` also carries:

* `availableUSD`, which the Python SDK exposes as `available_usd`
* `neededUSD`, which the Python SDK exposes as `needed_usd`