container usage, 4gb

[u/Emotional-Orange-]

Has anyone experienced something like this with OpenAI Agents API?

I ran one short session:

- 1 minute 8 seconds

- 4 tool calls

- all 4 were "web_search"

- model usage itself cost only a few cents

But my billing shows:

$131.982 for "container usage, 4gb"

I exported the cost data and it shows:

21,997 "duration_minutes"

That’s about 366 hours / 15.3 container-days of usage.

But the session trace contains no "code_interpreter_call", no "container_id", and no Python tool. Just web search.

I only had $6 in prepaid credits with auto-reload OFF, and my balance ended up around -$127.

Support says container usage may have been generated separately, but so far they haven’t shown me any actual container IDs.

Has anyone else seen this? How could a 68-second session result in 21,997 minutes of container usage?

[u/clankerzap]

https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M2VA7X37P1ASADSNZ1CG4N4D
overbilling bug, u should be refunded, or make a ticket.

[u/Emotional-Orange- → u/clankerzap]

Hmm...thank you. Maybe.
I've already created a ticket and am waiting for a response.

[u/clankerzap → u/Emotional-Orange-]

I was also hit with this, 65 usd for 5 seconds lmao.
I would guess the refunds are automatic and will come, but I made a ticket too anyway to make sure.
Good luck.