Black Friday AI gift: prepaid credit vs a year of Plus

Black Friday ads love annual ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro. Those can be fine if the person already lives in one app. As a gift, annual plans create three problems:

1. You may not be able to buy the gift SKU (Claude gifts are unavailable).
2. The recipient might already be on a plan.
3. January them may want a different model than November them.

Prepaid credit dodges all three. Compare a $100-$250 pack to a year of Plus ($20/month on OpenAI’s pricing) only after you know they are GPT-web-only and want that subscription.

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
5. OpenAI: ChatGPT and Codex pricing
6. OpenAI: About ChatGPT Pro tiers

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