I have already reached out to support regarding this issue but wanted to know if anyone else is experiencing this issue. On our platform org we have 10s of projects, most with individual budget limits. We have always accepts these as hard limits as described in the documentation . However today we …

Now confirmed with OpenAI support that project limits are no longer hard limits, and are notification only and that the documentation is incorrect it what it specifies. Noting as well that “Monthly Budget Limit Silently removed” previously reported the silent change of org level monthly budget limi…

Well, this is not exactly a solution, but just in case you haven’t seen yet, there is the possibility to create an admin key to monitor your usage without depending just on email notifications. [image] How to use the Usage API and Cost API to monitor your OpenAI usage | OpenAI... For mo…

Hi and welcome to the community! A budget is not a hard cap on API spending. I made the same assumption myself, so I understand why this can be surprising at first. If you need a strict server-side spending limit, that is unfortunately a blocker. I checked several other major AI providers and, to …

This is actually insane. And they changed this without telling anyone?

Project limits not being respected

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drew.mcpherson February 8, 2026, 2:41am 4

Wait! Are you saying that using the OpenAI API, there is absolutely NO WAY to set a project limit??? This is a serious showstopper.

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Project limits not being respected

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