OpenAI gives eligible ChatGPT Pro and Business subscribers up to $500 a month in API credits
ChatGPT subscriptions now come with API credits, pulling subscribers onto the developer platform.
// Key points
- The allowance depends on the Pro plan or the Business workspace's paid seats, up to $500 a month; Business credits are pooled and capped at $500 per workspace per month, or $6,000 per annual billing cycle.
- The subscription must be paid, active and at least seven days old, with free trials and complimentary subscriptions excluded; you must own both the subscription and the API organization, using the same email.
- Credits expire at the end of the billing cycle and don't roll over, apply only to the linked API organization, are used before purchased credits, and also cover built-in tools such as web search, file search and Code Interpreter.
Builder's takeFor a small team this is a fixed monthly prototyping budget. I would link it to a separate API organization used only for experiments, not production, or the production bill jumps the moment credits expire. Since credits reset every cycle, they are best spent on eval runs, such as comparing Terra and Sol.
// Background · from #OpenAI
Full timeline →- Oct 28 OpenAI and Oracle expand their partnership to bring Oracle business applications and AI agents into ChatGPT
- Oct 27 OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra at $1 input and $5 output per million tokens, half of GPT-6.1 Sol, with a 1.05M-token context
- Oct 27 GPT-6.1 Terra is generally available on Amazon Bedrock the same day; OpenAI's evaluation has it finishing tasks over 3x faster than GPT-6 Astra