OpenAI adds up to $500 per month in API credit to ChatGPT Pro and Business plans

OpenAI is adding API usage credit of up to $500 per month to ChatGPT Pro and Business plans. The company announced the benefit on October 28 (US time), according to Japanese outlet ITmedia, whose report is in Japanese.

Who is eligible

Only two plan families qualify:

• ChatGPT Pro (priced at $100, $200 and $500 per month)
• ChatGPT Business

The Free, Go, Plus, Enterprise and Edu plans are excluded.

How much credit each plan gets

Plan	Monthly API credit
Pro ($100, $200 or $500 per month)	Equal to the plan's monthly fee, renewed every month
Business, standard seat	$20 per seat
Business, premium seat	$100 per seat

For Business, the total is capped at $500 per month per workspace.

How to claim it

The credit is not applied automatically. To receive it, a user must sign in to both their ChatGPT account and their OpenAI API account with the same email address, then complete the usage setup.

What this means

This is a change to plan benefits, not a new model or a pricing change to the API itself. ChatGPT subscribers on the qualifying plans can now run API workloads against a monthly credit tied to what they already pay. For Pro subscribers, the credit matches the subscription fee. For Business workspaces, the credit scales with seat type but stops at $500 per month regardless of seat count.

Teams should check two points before relying on the credit. First, the ChatGPT and API accounts must share an email address. Second, Plus, Enterprise and Edu subscribers do not receive the benefit.