curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/containers/container-id' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

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

> Retrieve container

## 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/containers/container-id' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| container_id | path | string | Yes | path parameter container_id. |

## Response example
{"id":"string","object":"string"}

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GET /containers/{container_id} — OpenAI API

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OpenAI API

Retrieve container

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/containers/container-id' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
container_id	path	string	Yes	path parameter container_id.

Response 200 OK

{
  "id": "string",
  "object": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "created_at": 0,
  "status": "string",
  "last_active_at": 0,
  "expires_after": {
    "anchor": "last_active_at",
    "minutes": 0
  },
  "memory_limit": "1g",
  "network_policy": {
    "type": "allowlist",
    "allowed_domains": [
      "string"
    ]
  }
}

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