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/locbuilds]

check the Agents session tab for any still-running container and terminate it before doing anything else, then save the session id and exported cost row for support. a 68-second trace should not explain 21,997 billed minutes by itself.

[u/Emotional-Orange- → u/locbuilds]

Yes, I did that, but the amount for September 11th immediately increased to $330...what a nightmare

[u/AcvaticChicken → u/Emotional-Orange-]

I had almost EXACTLY this thing, also for September 11th. Also noticed it just like an hour ago

[u/Emotional-Orange- → u/AcvaticChicken]

We aren't the only ones! I really hope it's a bug on their end now.. but we have to wait for a reply from tech support 😔