curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/projects/project-id/spend_alerts/alert-id' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY"

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

> Retrieve project spend alert

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## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/projects/project-id/spend_alerts/alert-id' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| project_id | path | string | Yes | The ID of the project. |
| alert_id | path | string | Yes | The ID of the spend alert to retrieve. |

## Response example
{"id":"string","object":"project.spend_alert"}

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GET /organization/projects/{project_id}/spend_alerts/{alert_id} — OpenAI API

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Retrieve project spend alert

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/projects/project-id/spend_alerts/alert-id' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY"

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
project_id	path	string	Yes	The ID of the project.
alert_id	path	string	Yes	The ID of the spend alert to retrieve.

Response 200 OK

{
  "id": "string",
  "object": "project.spend_alert",
  "threshold_amount": 0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "interval": "month",
  "notification_channel": {
    "type": "email",
    "recipients": [
      "string"
    ],
    "subject_prefix": "string"
  }
}

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