I believe there is a new bug in platform.openai.com . Since today, I do not see a spending budget button for both my organization and the projects within it. For the organization, I no longer see the spending cap I had put in place before. For the projects, I do see the caps, but I believe they are not being enforced. I am an organization owner, so it is not a permission issue, and I tried incognito mode for 3 different browsers, so it’s not a cookie issue either. I noticed that 2 days ago already a project went 2x over budget (1800$ on a 1000$ cap) while still being green which tells me that the whole spending cap subsystem might be completely broken right now. This is super important for us to keep our costs manageable, so we will appreciate quick help.
There have not been any functioning “hard limit” caps for about a year.
OpenAI removed them.
That is not true - up until 5 days ago they were functioning just fine - yes sometimes they will stop the usage few dollars above the max set but they were working. Now I cannot manage them at all
Granted: I see a revision in the limits UI for project and for organization, where we no longer see “set a budget” - which would send merely a notification email and was not the removed “hard limit”. Instead there is language for “Alerts” now, and for configuring all as only one type instead of appearing as a “budget” with more “email alerts” possible.
That is a better description of what was offered.
If you actually got a project turned off while you still had an organization balance, that is quite contrary to expectations and what has been happening.
You can visit this topic I created months back, where at least the current presentation in the platform is a good response, in that an API developer is not misinformed by the language.
I again push back on what you are saying - literally 5 days ago, a limit on a project will stop the project from being able to use credits. This was enforced loosely (something like eventual consistency, where a few minutes after the spending went over, it would only then prevent future spending), but it did. Now this functionality is esentially completely gone. I am saying this because i had multiple projects that triggered this 5 days ago
I am on your side, and that both projects and organizations must have hard and immediately working budget limits that can be set.
Google has working AI budget limits, on top of them offering post-paid billing and not expiring credits you are forced to buy in anticipation of future use, for future models and their pricing, and even dubious future persistence of your API organization not being arbitrarily banned and having those credits stolen. The frogs here are not just boiling, they are already cooked.