How to Set Up Your OpenAI Billing (2024)

FAQs

How to set up billing OpenAI? ›

Go to your OpenAI account. Navigate to Billing settings. Go to Payment methods: Click “Add a payment method” and add the necessary details.

You can view the rate and usage limits for your organization under the limits section of your account settings. As your usage of the OpenAI API and your spend on our API goes up, we automatically graduate you to the next usage tier. This usually results in an increase in rate limits across most models.

A customer can schedule an automatic bill payment in several ways: through their bank/financial institution, through a vendor's website, or through cloud-based accounting software, to list a few. Regular payments can be authorized through the credit card, debit card, checking/savings account, or money market account.

There is no “free account” for API. The use of the service costs money by the amount of data used. There is only possibility of a free trial credit, which expires three months after you first created your OpenAI account. Now you'll need to purchase a credit balance in order to make calls.

At the beginning of your billing year, you are charged for your baseline number of seats. Throughout the year, if additional seats are added, they will be billed on a pro-rated basis at the end of each monthly true-up cycle. The charges for these additional seats will be reflected on the next invoice.

The Usage Dashboard displays your API usage during the current and past monthly billing cycles. To access the Usage Dashboard, navigate to the Usage tab located under your organization's Settings, or by visiting https://platform.openai.com/account/usage. The usage dashboard has two views: Cost and Activity.

Log into ChatGPT. Click on 'My Plan' in the left sidebar. In the pop-up, choose 'Manage my subscription'.

OpenAI removed the prior granting of free trial credits to new accounts and stealthfully removed documentation talking about it.

OpenAi free trial credits have been discontinued? Yes, the free credits have been discontinued earlier this year. OpenAI now for most users operates under pre-paid billing. In order to use the API you need to fund your account with a minimum balance of USD 5.

How to make payment for ChatGPT? ›

We accept payment via credit card or debit card. We do not support alternate payment options. Pre-paid cards / gift cards are not supported.

Having a few prompts or images declined by the filtering won't get your account banned. As far as I understand, OpenAI will send you an email with a warning before they actually ban you. Here is an example prompt. It does mention tumultuous and ominous, but it passes the moderation function (output below).

Individuals cannot register for access to Azure OpenAI services for personal use. However, you can still explore OpenAI's capabilities outside of the Azure environment.

We accept payment via credit card or debit card. We do not support alternate payment options. Pre-paid cards / gift cards are not supported.

Receipts for credit purchases made at labs.openai.com are sent to the email address you used when making the purchase.

Fees are payable in U.S. dollars and are due upon invoice issuance, unless otherwise agreed in an Order Form. Payments are nonrefundable except as provided in this Agreement.