fal.ai API errors
Queue, auth, balance and validation errors from the fal.ai model API and its JS / Python clients.
Every error text on these pages is quoted verbatim from fal.ai's documentation or from a public issue where someone hit it, with the source linked on each page.
| Status | Error | Retry? |
|---|---|---|
| 403 | User is locked. Reason: Exhausted balance. | No |
| 422 | contained material flagged by a content checker | No |
| 500 | Downstream service unavailable | Depends |