Hello! Unfortunately, OpenAI API credits expire 1 year after they are issued, as per our current policy.
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Can I extend my credits Answer from OpenAI_Support on community.openai.com
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Paid credits expired wth? - API - OpenAI Developer Community
December 3, 2024 - I had made a payment of a couple hundret dollars and it says in the Usage page, that they are expired? Hello? Are you serious? Under German law, the expiration of prepaid funds is generally not permissible, as it const…
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Researcher Access Program FAQ | OpenAI Help Center
Credit grants will expire if they remain unused one year after they were granted. We cannot reinstate expired credits, so please ensure you use your credits within that time frame.
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How to Buy and Get OpenAI API Credits 2025 - YouTube
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OpenAI gets $4 billion revolving credit line, giving it more than ...
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Reddit
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r/OpenAI on Reddit: Money expires in OpenAI
March 1, 2025 -
Turns out the credits you buy for the OpenAI API expire after one year.
Today, I got a surprise - logged in to the platform only to find that my prepaid balance had expired.
Apparently, even money can have an expiration date.
Just saying - plan accordingly and don't put in what you will not spend.
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My credits show they have expired with little or no usage - Bugs - OpenAI Developer Community
January 14, 2024 - Unfortunately, most grants expire after a certain amount of time. I’m not sure if it’s currently possible to see which grants are currently assigned to you and when they expire. They’ve been overhauling the billing UI over the past couple of weeks and it’s possible that this information ...
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Can you extend my credits? | OpenAI Help Center
Can I have my grant credits or purchased credits extended? ... Unfortunately, we're unable to extend the expiration date of credit grants or purchased credits.
Reddit
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r/OpenAI on Reddit: Confusion in regards to credits and what them expiring does.
January 1, 2024 - The free credits should have long since expired as per what I know from their credit expiry policy, and the credit grant usage line clearly demonstrates that; but they haven't.
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Are OpenAI credits expiring? - API - OpenAI Developer Community
November 18, 2023 - Since dashboard change, I see no warning about credit expiration date. They forgot to put it, they placed it somewhere else or credits are not expiring any more?
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Puzzling Expired Credit Grants in my usage Dashboard - Feedback - OpenAI Developer Community
September 27, 2023 - Hello, I have a pay-as-you-go subscription and have been testing APIs for last few months now. In my Dashboard I see this Expired Credit Grants (current month usage, which is still not complete). I tried to understand b…
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Why did my credit expire? - API - OpenAI Developer Community
March 25, 2023 - I was working on codex api when i found out that my credit has been expired , can anyone help me why does this happen? and will I get free credit or not?
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My OpenAI API credits are about to expire - API - OpenAI Developer Community
December 7, 2024 - My OpenAI API credits are about to expire. If I purchase more credits, will they be added to the ones that are about to expire?
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How to view expiration date of Credit Grants - API - OpenAI Developer Community
June 16, 2023 - Ever since the new UI update, it is no longer obvious how to view the expiration date of Credit Grants. How can I view the expiration date? (I am not just asking about the $18 3-month grant for new users, I am asking abo…
Reddit
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r/OpenAI on Reddit: Just realized that paid-for credits expire, and pretty quickly
April 28, 2024 -
I was just randomly checking out my usage dashboard, and to my surprise noticed that some of my credits will expire in August 2024, i.e. not so long from now.
Kind of weird I think. Do Amazon gift-card credits expire after a few months? (TL;DR: no)
What's OpenAI's rationale here?
Reddit
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r/OpenAI on Reddit: OpenAI billing/credits issue
2 weeks ago - I have an issue with the OpenAI API credits/billing and I'm hoping someone here can shed some light on it. I wanted to test out some embeddings last week and I realized that the credits I had on my account had expired. When I went into my account the balance was sitting at $0.
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API Credits/Amount get expired - Feedback - OpenAI Developer Community
March 15, 2025 - I paid some amount for credits, and it shows that it has now expired. How can the pre-paid amount expire?? There was no email regarding this.
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Expiring API Credits - Please Make it Clear - Feedback - OpenAI Developer Community
October 14, 2024 - This has been mentioned in other threads, but strangely there is no ability to reply to them. First off, I’m not even sure I was aware there was an expiration of 1 year when I first purchased the credits (why that’s eve…
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Received $5 grant with new API in mid-July. Unused amount expired on Aug 1 - API - OpenAI Developer Community
April 21, 2023 - I received a $5 grant with my new API platform account in the middle of July. I just realized the remaining balance expired on August 1. I’m not too bothered by $5 and won’t expect the team to credit me again, I’m just …
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MY API Key usage credits expired - API - OpenAI Developer Community
May 30, 2023 - Hi, i have created a account and doing a POC, my API Key credit of 18$ is expired , i have not used it and now before i buy i want to use the trail credits, can anyone help