Responses API returns zero usage when combining `previous_response_id` + `context_management` + `tools`
OpenAI Developer Community
March 4, 2026
Hi and welcome to the community!
Thank you for raising this with the very helpful steps to repro the issue!
Subsequently I was immediately able to reproduce the core issue: previous_response_id + context_management + tools returned usage.total_tokens = 0.
During my testing I also found another variant that returns zero token usage: no previous_response_id + context_management + tools
Will flag this to the team!
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