API Reference

Admin

Organization

Spend Alerts

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Retrieve organization spend alert

GET/organization/spend_alerts/{alert_id}

Retrieves an organization spend alert.

Path ParametersExpand Collapse

alert_id: string

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OrganizationSpendAlert object { id, currency, interval, 3 more }

Represents a spend alert configured at the organization level.

id: string

The identifier, which can be referenced in API endpoints.

currency: "USD"

The currency for the threshold amount.

interval: "month"

The time interval for evaluating spend against the threshold.

notification_channel: object { recipients, type, subject_prefix }

Email notification settings for a spend alert.

recipients: array of string

Email addresses that receive the spend alert notification.

type: "email"

The notification channel type. Currently only email is supported.

subject_prefix: optional string or null

Optional subject prefix for alert emails.

object: "organization.spend_alert"

The object type, which is always organization.spend_alert.

threshold_amount: number

The alert threshold amount, in cents.

Retrieve organization spend alert

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curl https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/spend_alerts/alert_abc123 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json"

{
    "id": "alert_abc123",
    "object": "organization.spend_alert",
    "threshold_amount": 150000,
    "currency": "USD",
    "interval": "month",
    "notification_channel": {
        "type": "email",
        "recipients": ["finance@example.com"],
        "subject_prefix": "OpenAI spend alert"
    }
}

Returns Examples

{
    "id": "alert_abc123",
    "object": "organization.spend_alert",
    "threshold_amount": 150000,
    "currency": "USD",
    "interval": "month",
    "notification_channel": {
        "type": "email",
        "recipients": ["finance@example.com"],
        "subject_prefix": "OpenAI spend alert"
    }
}