OpenAI offers up to $500 in monthly API credits to ChatGPT Pro and Business subscribers

Eligible Pro and Business plans can now claim API allowances that expire each billing cycle, nudging paying chat users toward building on OpenAI's developer platform OpenAI is giving some of its paying ChatGPT customers a monthly allowance to spend on its developer platform. Eligible ChatGPT Pro and Business subscribers can now claim API credits worth up to $500 per month. The benefit rolled out in late October 2026 through updates to OpenAI’s Help Center and the @OpenAIDevs account on X. The stated goal is to encourage subscribers to build apps and agents on the OpenAI API platform. How the credits break down For individual Pro users, each Pro tier gets a monthly credit equal to its price. The $100 Pro plan comes with $100 in monthly API credits. The $200 plan gets $200. The $500 plan gets $500. Business accounts work differently. Instead of a fixed number, credits are pooled at the workspace level based on how many paid seats the organization holds. Two seat types count toward the pool: Standard seats at $20 per seat and Premium seats at $100 per seat. However many seats a company stacks up, the total is capped at $500 per workspace for each billing period. The fine print Not eve...