API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions

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OpenAI has launched a subscription benefit similar to Anthropic's: subscribers paying $100, $200, or $500 per month receive matching credits for their own API organization. Anthropic rolled out the same mechanism earlier this month for its Max and Team subscriptions. Author Simon Willison, who subscribes to both companies, notes the credits covered by existing subscriptions can be used to build public demos.

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29th October 2026 - Link Blog

API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions. Earlier this month Anthropic announced a generous new benefit for their Max and Team subscriptions: $100, $200, and $500 per month subscribers would get the equivalent quantity of (expiring) credits to use with the Anthropic API.

OpenAI have now launched pretty much exactly the same deal: if you have a $100, $200, or $500 subscription plan with them you now get that same quantity of credits to apply to one of your API organizations.

I maintain subscriptions with both companies, so this is great news for me! I may even ship some public-facing demos now that the credits are already covered by my existing subscriptions.

Source: Simon Willison · simonwillison.net