curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/spend_limit' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY"

# GET /organization/spend_limit (OpenAI API)
Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization; OpenAI admin key; required.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> Get organization spend limit

## Critical Gotchas
* The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.
* Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/spend_limit' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY"

## Response example
{"object":"organization.spend_limit","threshold_amount":0}

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GET /organization/spend_limit — OpenAI API

OpenAI admin key (required); https://api.openai.com/v1

OpenAI API

Get organization spend limit

Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <OPENAI_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

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Critical gotchas

The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.

Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

cURL

curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/spend_limit' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY"

Parameters

No parameters.

Response 200 OK

{
  "object": "organization.spend_limit",
  "threshold_amount": 0,
  "currency": "string",
  "interval": "string",
  "enforcement": {
    "status": "string"
  }
}

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