diff --git a/stabilityai/client.py b/stabilityai/client.py
index 8fd1282..f0f8cfe 100644
--- a/stabilityai/client.py
+++ b/stabilityai/client.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import textwrap
 from typing import Optional
 
 import aiohttp
+from aiohttp.client_exceptions import ClientResponseError
 from pydantic import validate_arguments
 
 from stabilityai.constants import (
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ from stabilityai.constants import (
 from stabilityai.exceptions import (
     ThisFunctionRequiresAPrompt,
     YouNeedToUseAContextManager,
+    figure_out_exception,
 )
 from stabilityai.models import (
     AccountResponseBody,
@@ -188,12 +190,16 @@ class AsyncStabilityClient:
             extras=extras,
         )
 
-        res = await self.session.post(
-            f"/v1/generation/{engine_id}/text-to-image",
-            headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
-            data=request_body.json(exclude_defaults=True, exclude_none=True, exclude_unset=True),
-        )
-        Sampler.K_DPMPP_2M
+        try:
+            res = await self.session.post(
+                f"/v1/generation/{engine_id}/text-to-image",
+                headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
+                data=request_body.json(
+                    exclude_defaults=True, exclude_none=True, exclude_unset=True
+                ),
+            )
+        except ClientResponseError as e:
+            raise figure_out_exception(e) from e
 
         return TextToImageResponseBody.parse_obj(await res.json())
 
@@ -257,10 +263,15 @@ class AsyncStabilityClient:
             extras=extras,
         )
 
-        res = await self.session.post(
-            f"/v1/generation/{engine_id}/text-to-image",
-            data=request_body.json(exclude_none=True, exclude_defaults=True, exclude_unset=True),
-        )
+        try:
+            res = await self.session.post(
+                f"/v1/generation/{engine_id}/text-to-image",
+                data=request_body.json(
+                    exclude_none=True, exclude_defaults=True, exclude_unset=True
+                ),
+            )
+        except ClientResponseError as e:
+            raise figure_out_exception(e) from e
 
         return ImageToImageResponseBody.parse_obj(await res.json())
 
@@ -283,9 +294,12 @@ class AsyncStabilityClient:
         form.add_field("width", "1024")
         form.add_field("image", request_body.image)
 
-        res = await self.session.post(
-            f"/v1/generation/{engine_id}/image-to-image/upscale",
-            data=form,
-        )
+        try:
+            res = await self.session.post(
+                f"/v1/generation/{engine_id}/image-to-image/upscale",
+                data=form,
+            )
+        except ClientResponseError as e:
+            raise figure_out_exception(e) from e
 
         return ImageToImageUpscaleResponseBody.parse_obj(await res.json())
diff --git a/stabilityai/exceptions.py b/stabilityai/exceptions.py
index 8a2458e..9c99bb3 100644
--- a/stabilityai/exceptions.py
+++ b/stabilityai/exceptions.py
@@ -1,6 +1,124 @@
+import textwrap
+from aiohttp.client_exceptions import ClientResponseError
+
+
 class YouNeedToUseAContextManager(ValueError):
     pass
 
 
 class ThisFunctionRequiresAPrompt(ValueError):
     pass
+
+
+class StabilityAiError(Exception):
+    retryable: bool = False
+
+
+class YouAreHoldingItWrong(StabilityAiError):
+    pass
+
+
+class ApiKeyIsMissingOrInvalid(StabilityAiError):
+    pass
+
+
+class ImAfraidICantLetYouDoThat(StabilityAiError):
+    pass
+
+
+class YouBrokeTheirServeres(StabilityAiError):
+    retryable: bool = True
+
+
+class ResourceNotFound(StabilityAiError):
+    pass
+
+
+class RateLimitOrServerError(StabilityAiError):
+    retryable: bool = True
+
+
+def figure_out_exception(e: ClientResponseError) -> StabilityAiError:
+    if e.status == 400:
+        return YouAreHoldingItWrong(
+            textwrap.dedent(
+                """\
+                Either you specificed some combination of options that their
+                server doesn't like or it's a bug in this library. If you 
+                think it's the latter open up a bug report on
+
+                https://github.com/estheruary/stabilityai
+                """
+            )
+        )
+    elif e.status == 401:
+        return ApiKeyIsMissingOrInvalid(
+            textwrap.dedent(
+                """\
+                This could be one of a few problems. If you don't have an API
+                key you should generate one at
+
+                  https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/account
+
+                If you have an API key there are two ways to provide it to this
+                library. The first and most common is via the environment. You
+                to set STABILITY_API_KEY.
+
+                The second method is to provide it to the client constructor
+                directly.
+
+                    async with AsyncStabilityClient(api_key="your-key") as stability:
+                      ...
+                """
+            )
+        )
+    elif e.status == 403:
+        return ImAfraidICantLetYouDoThat(
+            textwrap.dedent(
+                """\
+                At the time of writing (Jun 2023) Stability doesn't have any
+                permissions on their API so if you get this it's likely
+                a bug in this library or a problem on their servers. If you
+                think it's the former report it at
+
+                    https://github.com/estheruary/stabilityai
+                """
+            )
+        )
+    elif e.status == 429:
+        return RateLimitOrServerError(
+            textwrap.dedent(
+                """\
+                Stability's rate limit is 150 req / 10 sec. If you get this
+                error on *every* request then it's a bug on their servers.
+                You need to generate a new API key and delete the old one.
+                """
+            )
+        )
+    elif e.status == 404:
+        return ResourceNotFound(
+            textwrap.dedent(
+                """\
+                This usually happens when you specify models that don't exist
+                *or* a combination of model/sampler that doesn't work together.
+                """
+            )
+        )
+    elif e.status == 500:
+        return YouBrokeTheirServeres(
+            textwrap.dedent(
+                """\
+                Impressive. This is not an error you can do anything about
+                except retry. Stability might be having an outage or a
+                problem on their servers.
+                """
+            )
+        )
+    else:
+        return StabilityAiError(
+            textwrap.dedent(
+                """\
+                Sorry, I don't know what's up with this error.
+                """
+            )
+        )