When using the batching API I found that my batch files remain uploaded to the files endpoint even after the batch is done running. Does anyone know if OpenAI will charge for the storage of these expired batch files? I could use the the files endpoint to clean them up every now and then but its easier if they just disappear automatically after batches.
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You have 100GB essentially free with your funded API account. It is just made somewhat useless as cloud storage by the lack of universal content retrieval methods to go along with the authentication.
There are reasons to leave them there: convenient if you want to run unit tests every night to see when the AI model has been damaged and can’t perform your task.
There are reasons to clean them up, before the purpose is long forgotten.
Vector stores have a new aspect of expiration date for use within assistants, but this does not extend to the files themselves.
Terms can be re-negotiated, pray they don’t alter them further…
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