openai API Unathorised usage. Beware devs. Warning - there’s some open ai API vunerability eating my credit - my REAL money. I havent been able to narrow it down. Despite locking down my account Deleteing old API key Adding IP verification Setting project budget to 0.01 Blocking all model usag…

[image] Something crazy is going on with my account API Check here for the legacy API keys you forgot: https://platform.openai.com/settings/profile/api-keys Then here for the other organization members that can bill services to you: https://platform.openai.c…

It could be openai storage pricing that is being charged? Do you have any files in your organization? Check out pricing for it. I cant seem to find storage pricing for fine-tuned jobs or training data. But says that it is: “File search storage $0.10 / GB per day (1GB free)”

[image] skalman: I cant seem to find storage pricing for fine-tuned jobs or training data. But says that it is: Great point! The usage page in the platform site will report your current storage size. https://platform.openai.com/usage/vector-stores It will take deliberate disconnection of fi…

Thanks - none of the above - its just me and no storage

old API keys put in separate ‘old project’ - deleted actual keys New project created - with new key < no problem in new project no vector storage no other users (2FA now enabled)

Hi and welcome to the community! What do you see when inspecting the usage and cost pages for the organization on the platform? The main way to resolve this issue is via the support channels: help.openai.com

API Unathorised usage. Beware

Community

_j November 14, 2025, 1:34pm 2

Topic		Replies	Views
API charged a lot despite NO usage API	12	2643	February 21, 2024
We are getting charged even though there are no API keys Community gpt-4	11	1136	April 9, 2025
Sudden spike in consumption API api	5	587	March 24, 2025
Unauthorised transactions from api platform Community account-problem	7	1563	June 15, 2024
My API doesn't receive any requests, and I have also removed the API key, but my billing gets updated and increased every 5 minutes API gpt-35-turbo , chatgpt , api	5	1125	July 8, 2023

API Unathorised usage. Beware

Related topics