I am not really a tech person and don’t fully understand what the term API even means, so apologies if this is obvious to others. But I was looking at Open AI’s data use policy (How your data is used to improve model performance | OpenAI Help Center), which makes a distinction between OpenAI’s API and Open AI’s “non-API consumer services”. The policy makes clear that ChatGPT and DALL-E are both considered non-API consumer services. But the policy doesn’t say how the playground is classified. I am interested in knowing what the data use policy is for information entered into the playground, but this doesn’t seem to be explained anywhere. Can anyone clarify?
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Welcome to the forum.
I believe Playground would fall under API services and not consumer… I could be wrong, tho…
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Hi @JC1
There is no reason to guess, you can simply test it and confirm yourself.
So, just for you @JC1 , I just did this simple test for you by going to the playground and creating a new completion with a model I rarely use, text-babbage-001
Then, I waited 5 minutes and looked at my account token usage, and “abracadabra”, there it is!
This clearly shows, without guesswork, that when you use the playground, you are charged just like you are using the API (per usage basis, not retail consumer month subscription)
Hope this helps.
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Thank you! So when this page (OpenAI API) says that “Any data sent through the API will be retained for abuse and misuse monitoring purposes for a maximum of 30 days, after which it will be deleted (unless otherwise required by law)”, you’re pretty confident that this applies to any data entered in at the playground?
Yes of course. 100% confidenr.
lol - I only just now noticed this forum post (Getting started - where do I begin exploring the API?) by OpenAI staff, in which they explicitly state that the playground is part of the API. 
Still, thank you for your help! 
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