OpenAI charged $1,200 past a configured $50 hard limit
A user reported being charged $1,200 despite setting a soft limit of $30 and a hard limit of $50, alleging the configured caps were not honored by the platform.
A spend limit was set but not honored by the provider, so the agent kept spending past it. The fix is an independent, deterministic pre-spend check outside the provider's billing. independent per-tx cap would have rejected or flagged this transaction before any money moved.
max_amount_usd: 500
allow: [openai.com, stripe.com]
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What happened
A user reported being charged $1,200 despite setting a soft limit of $30 and a hard limit of $50, alleging the configured caps were not honored by the platform.
The root cause was classified as Platform cap failed to enforce. A spend limit was set but not honored by the provider, so the agent kept spending past it. The fix is an independent, deterministic pre-spend check outside the provider's billing.
This is one of 14 documented incidents in the open registry. Every entry is sourced to a public URL; amounts and dates are as reported by the source.