An Indian software team can select India for both processing and inference on supported GPT-6 Luna API requests. OpenAI announced the option on November 10. Whether it covers your application comes down to three settings that a purchasing team can verify with its engineers.
1. Check the organization
OpenAI specifies approved, active Zero Data Retention for this setup. Ask the administrator to verify the status on the organization that owns the production project. An approval held by a different organization, or a pending request, is insufficient evidence for the workload you plan to move.
2. Identify the project that sends the traffic
Create the regional API project with India selected and choose Storage & Processing. Record which application uses that project. For example, a staging chatbot and a production invoice reader might use different project credentials. Configuring the chatbot does not establish where the invoice reader’s requests run.
3. Trace one representative request
The announcement covers GPT-6 Luna on the Responses and Chat Completions APIs, with text or image input and text output. A text summary of an uploaded invoice is a candidate to check. A workflow that generates audio needs a separate capability check. Inventory any other model, external tool, analytics service or logging system the application calls.
For a procurement review, document the organization approval, project region, model, endpoint and input/output types together. A regional API setting alone cannot substantiate a claim about an employee’s personal ChatGPT account or every external system involved in the transaction.
Sources: OpenAI release notes, November 10 · OpenAI platform data controls. Image: OpenAI.
