AI gift for a college student

Students need bursts of help around deadlines, not necessarily a year of Plus on a parent’s card.

Good gifts

• $25-$50 prepaid AI credit
• A ChatGPT gift card if that is the only tool their courses allow (rules)
• A book tied to their major

Checks

• Brass recipients must be 18 or over.
• Tell them to follow their school’s AI policy. Credit is not permission to cheat.
• Do not put Plus on your card “until graduation.”

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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