AI gift for a brother who codes

Brothers who code often already have Copilot through work or school. Another seat is noise. What they burn on nights and weekends is chat and agent spend outside the IDE.

Better gift

• Prepaid credit he can point at Claude, GPT, or whatever the side project needs
• $50-$150 if he ships personal tools often
• A message that it is usage credit, not a new SaaS to babysit

Skip sharing your work API key. That is a security problem dressed as a birthday present.

Brass sells prepaid packs of $10 to $250 you can gift by email or as a card you print. Credits never expire. The recipient spends them across Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek. US only, 18 and over; an unclaimed gift returns to you after 90 days.

Still shopping for the holidays? A Brass pack goes by email or as a card you print at home, so it is there the day you give it. Send a pack.

Sources

1. Anthropic: How to gift a Claude subscription
2. Claude pricing
3. OpenAI: Buying and redeeming OpenAI gift cards
4. OpenAI: Gifting credits in ChatGPT

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