Problem Summary: 1. Duplicate Tasks: A single API request was replicated and executed multiple times on OpenAI’s servers. 2. Request Timeout: Although the tasks were processed on the backend, the original API call never completed and was terminated by our timeout setting. 3. Suspected Ro…

I’m seeing the same thing. Model: o3-deepresearch. The created entries show up a few minutes apart, so it looks like the same request ran multiple times. On top of that, outputs were empty and the calls timed out, but I still got charged for the duplicates—totaled around ~$1,000. I’m requesting o…

Hey @tgw13 and @founder6 , are you still blocked / owed refunds here? Let me know if so, and I can look into your Support requests to make sure we resolve things for you!

@OpenAI_Support Thank you. I tried to contact support via chat, but the automated responses didn’t address my issue, so I had to stop partway through. As of now, my refund request (and related requests) has not been processed. Could you let me know the appropriate channel and steps for submitting …

I had the same issue with gpt-5-mini and still haven’t received a response back. I was getting the same issue as of earlier this week and have been trying to work around this issue by running 1 small batch at a time which defeats the purpose of batch processing.

I have the same issue. I provided a batch file with 27 items, and dashboard show far more than 300 log entries for those items but the batch does not complete…

Batch api Task runs repeatedly

API Bugs

OpenAI_Support November 18, 2025, 12:52am 9

We pushed a fix for this on Nov 14! Batch stuck in “finalizing” status for over 24 hours - #5 by info906

Thanks for surfacing this and let us know if you’re still blocked.

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Batch api Task runs repeatedly

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