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title: 5004: Upload capacity exhausted. | API Docs
description: Upload capacity is temporarily exhausted.
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**HTTP status:** `503`.

The shared budget for media uploads is fully in use. The response carries a one-second Retry-After mirrored in error.retry\_after.

## Troubleshooting

- Wait error.retry\_after seconds and retry the same upload.

## Related

- [Uploading media](/channel/whatsapp/api/resources/media/methods/upload/index.md)