API credits gone, yet dashboard show no sign they were used up

API
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So I bought 10 USD API credits in August (expires in August 2025), I did only a few request months ago, yet now I have 0.00$ remaining and get: openai.RateLimitError: Error code: 429 - {‘error’: {‘message’: 'You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing detail.

In no month did I even hit $1, so where exactly did the credits go?

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20 March budget, with no tokens or requests used. (Captioned by AI)
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Credits balance: 0

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8.00 available, all received on July 11, 2024, and expiring on August 1, 2025. (Captioned by AI)|690x122](upload://9GjFoJcAu0gm4C6wQqAKlrlOxeE.png)

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Hrm. That’s showing a $0/$10 balance. Did your key leak maybe?

Have you reached out to support?

https://help.openai.com

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I was wondering why I can’t see when the credits were spent in the dashboard. Then I would know if the key was leaked.

My spending looks like this:
August 2024: 0.00USD
September 2024: 0.27USD
November 2024: 0.00USD
December 2024: : 0.00USD
January 2025: 0.00USD
February 2025: 0.00USD
March 2025: 0.00USD

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Maybe I found it, spikes on March 4th.

The image displays a dashboard with graphs showing the number of API requests and tokens used for different versions of GPT models over the month of March. (Captioned by AI)
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Seems I found the issue. I published a vscode extension, and by default it packs all files, even if not used and gitignored, they need to be in .vscodeignore file. And I had my key in a JSON file in the project folder.

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Ah, lesson learned, I hope! :slight_smile:

Happy coding!