Reasons for Slow AI Responses Using OpenAI API

So just for testing I have the most simple AI prompt, yet it takes MULTIPLE minutes. So question is: why are these AI columns so slow? I use my own API token of OpenAI for the 4o model. We’ve been using the API for many months so I don’t think we’re rate limited for just doing a few testing prompts to get random words. Any ideas? 😄 Thanks!!