curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/batches?after=example-after&limit=20' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

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

> List batches

## Critical Gotchas
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## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/batches?after=example-after&limit=20' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| after | query | string | No | A cursor for use in pagination. `after` is an object ID that defines your pla... |
| limit | query | integer | No | A limit on the number of objects to be returned. Limit can range between 1 an... |

## Response example
{"data":[{}],"first_id":"batch_abc123"}

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GET /batches — OpenAI API

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List batches

Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <OPENAI_API_KEY>
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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/batches?after=example-after&limit=20' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
after	query	string	No	A cursor for use in pagination. `after` is an object ID that defines your place in the list. For instance, if you make a list request and receive 100 objects, ending with obj_foo, your subsequent call can include after=obj_foo in order to fetch the next page of the list.
limit	query	integer	No	A limit on the number of objects to be returned. Limit can range between 1 and 100, and the default is 20.

Response 200 OK

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "string",
      "object": "batch",
      "endpoint": "string",
      "model": "string",
      "errors": {
        "object": "string",
        "data": [
          {
            "code": "[recursive or deeply nested schema]",
            "message": "[recursive or deeply nested schema]",
            "param": "[recursive or deeply nested schema]",
            "line": "[recursive or deeply nested schema]"
          }
        ]
      },
      "input_file_id": "string",
      "completion_window": "string",
      "status": "validating",
      "output_file_id": "string",
      "error_file_id": "string",
      "created_at": 0,
      "in_progress_at": 0,
      "expires_at": 0,
      "finalizing_at": 0,
      "completed_at": 0,
      "failed_at": 0,
      "expired_at": 0,
      "cancelling_at": 0,
      "cancelled_at": 0,
      "request_counts": {
        "total": 0,
        "completed": 0,
        "failed": 0
      },
      "usage": {
        "input_tokens": 0,
        "input_tokens_details": {
          "cached_tokens": 0
        },
        "output_tokens": 0,
        "output_tokens_details": {
          "reasoning_tokens": 0
        },
        "total_tokens": 0
      },
      "metadata": {}
    }
  ],
  "first_id": "batch_abc123",
  "last_id": "batch_abc456",
  "has_more": true,
  "object": "list"
}

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