Be careful with the new Agents API, I just paid $1600 for idle containers
The new Agents API was amazing for my use case. A recurring multi-step job that should run in the background. And I kept a careful eye on the token usage. Around $0.20 per run after switching to Luna. Nice. What I didn’t keep a careful eye on? The hosted containers. Or I did, but the bill was just…
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- 2026-09-18 19:01 · r/OpenAI
Be careful with the new Agents API, I just paid $1600 for idle containers