[Screenshot 2024-11-10 012208] From last one week we found sudden increases in the API usage in the name of ‘Other Models’ . which is not made by us. which cause almost 600$ in one week. Can anyone help us to solve this issue?

I can’t help solve it, I’m afraid, but if it helps I can report that we’ve seen exactly the same thing on our account: sudden surge in API requests to a variety of high-cost GPT 4/4-turbo/4 Preview models which we don’t use in any of our applications. Because of this I’m assuming that one of our API…

Thanks, I think that’s good advice - it seems that it was an old user key that was compromised for us so we have removed all of these and instantiated new ones. That said, I also agree that it’s a little alarming that there’s been no communication from OpenAI about this vulnerability (if it is indee…

Welcome @lakshmanan.k [image] Losing money by unknown model Bugs The other models are listed at the bottom of the OpenAI API pricing page : [The image lists different AI models with their respective input and output pricing per million tokens. (Captioned by AI)] Hav…

Hi @sps ! Thanks for your message. I’ve been doing some digging and the curious thing is that the API key that has been compromised is an older user one that was only ever used and stored locally for testing by a single user - it was never shared nor even stored in an online environment (even as an e…

[image] owen.s: or the cipher itself was cracked And when you get a new key now, it is much longer… One can decide for themselves that all existing keys, including now harder-to-discover legacy user keys in billing, must be cancelled and replaced with newly-generated ones. You would not be …

Hi everyone, Ive been reading this thread as I too have had a really big increase in cose on my api. I saw someone saw generate a new api key … could I ask anyone, if I do this, will that mean my users will loose their chats or data? I have all their data saved on mongo and we use clerk for user v…

Hello, that is an excellent question. An API key is simply an authentication mechanism. It will land you into the same scope as other API keys within the same container, whether that container is legacy owner-based keys, or project keys. Each of those “containers” can have multiple keys that serve …

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sps November 12, 2024, 11:36am 5

Welcome @lakshmanan.k

Have you/anyone in your org shared the API key with a third party?

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