# Conversation access with previous\_response\_id: storage time

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/conversation-access-with-previous-response-id-storage-time/1142855>\
**Category:** API\
**Tags:** responses-endpoint\
**Created:** [March 14, 2025, 6:26am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/conversation-access-with-previous-response-id-storage-time/1142855 "2025-03-14T06:26:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![vlad.uspenskiy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/vlad.uspenskiy/32/515742_2.png) [@vlad.uspenskiy](https://community.openai.com/u/vlad.uspenskiy)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 6:26am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/conversation-access-with-previous-response-id-storage-time/1142855/1 "2025-03-14T06:26:00Z")

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For how long can the previous conversation be accessed with `previous_response_id`? Suppose the users of my chatbot will return to a conversation months later: would I still be able to fetch the conversation state by `previous_response_id` or is it safer to go with storing the conversation history on my side, the way it currently works with completions API?

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**Author:** ![\_j](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/_j/32/766292_2.png) [@\_j](https://community.openai.com/u/_j)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 7:03am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/conversation-access-with-previous-response-id-storage-time/1142855/2 "2025-03-14T07:03:49Z")

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[https://platform.openai.com/docs/quickstart?api-mode=responses#page-top](https://platform.openai.com/docs/quickstart?api-mode=responses#page-top)

On the developer quickstart linked, with a dropdown on the top right to switch your documentation between Responses or Chat Completions, one must have the insight to expand the section for “Data retention for model responses”

> Response objects are saved for 30 days by default. They can be viewed in the dashboard [logs](https://platform.openai.com/logs?api=responses) page or [retrieved](https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/responses/get) via the API. You can disable this behavior by setting `store` to `false` when creating a Response.