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.
More from Models
- Robot build test: GPT-6 Astra stabilizes two-board structure, Claude Fable 5.2 falls short — qinzytech · 2026-11-12
- Zvi dissects Anthropic's latest system card, disputing the autonomy threshold call — Don't Worry About the Vase (Zvi) · 2026-11-12
- antirez backs low-bit DeepSeek 4.1 Flash over Qwen 27B dense on Apple M5 Macs — antirez · 2026-11-12
- Gemini re-renders images as text when vision is removed, dropping only 6% WSR — zacharynado · 2026-11-12
- Bare-harness coding benchmark: Fable 5.2 best overall, Gemini 4 Carbon best value — Semantic_meaning · 2026-11-12
- Google's Physical-Engineering's Last Exam: all 14 frontier models score below 50% — dl_weekly · 2026-11-12