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Issue in fetching OpenAI API usage, billing cost, and credit balance programmatically for backend monitoring

OpenAI Developer Community April 28, 2026
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The only API that directly deals with billings is “get costs”, delivering daily buckets of monetary use, which can be further broken down by individual project or by “line item” (model):

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Costs

This, again, uses an admin API key , separately created by an owner in the platform profile.

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