How much does an OpenAI key leak cost on average?
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Short answer
Documented Claude Opus victim: ~$50K in 4.5 days. OpenAI key leaks typically run $1K-$50K before the spend cap trips. Premium-model abuse can exceed $100K/day.
LLMjacking economics: stolen keys resell at ~$30 on dark-web markets. Premium-model inference (Opus / GPT-5) burns budget fast.
Hardstop: vendor-side spend caps. Set them on every paid AI API. The cap is the difference between $1K + $50K loss.
With Securie's secret_scanner specialist + secrets-lifecycle, leaked keys get caught at PR time before commit.