OpenAI's page says abuse monitoring logs, which may contain customer content such as prompts and responses, are by default generated for all API feature usage and retained for up to 30 days, unless longer retention is required by law or is reasonably necessary to protect services or a third party from harm.

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Abuse monitoring logs may contain certain customer content, such as prompts and responses, as well as metadata derived from that customer content, such as classifier outputs. By default, abuse monitoring logs are generated for all API feature usage and retained for up to 30 days, unless longer retention is required by law, or is reasonably necessary to protect our services or any third party from harm.

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