68-Second OpenAI Agents API Session Racked Up $132 in 'Container Usage' — 366 Hours of Billed Time With No Trace
Emotional-Orange- · reddit · 2026-09-22
A Reddit user reports a bizarre OpenAI Agents API bill: a 1m08s session with 4 websearch calls cost only cents in model usage, but was charged $131.982 for "container usage, 4gb". Exported billing data shows 21,997 container duration-minutes (366 hours / 15.3 container-days), yet the trace contains no codeinterpretercall, no containerid, and no Python tool. The user had only $6 in prepaid credits with auto-reload off, leaving a -$127 balance. Support says the container usage "may have been generated separately" but hasn't produced any container IDs. The poster is asking if others have seen this.
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