What a ChatGPT gift card will not pay for

OpenAI’s gift card article is clear about the gaps.

Will not cover

• Subscriptions billed through Apple or Google
• API prepaid billing (different product, different account)
• Accounts billed outside US dollars
• Moving balance to another ChatGPT account after redeem

Easy to confuse

Redeeming a card fills the wallet. Usage credits for Codex and ChatGPT Work are a separate balance. You can spend wallet funds on a credit purchase when checkout offers it, but the card itself does not dump money into usage credits automatically.

If the recipient needs API spend or multi-lab models, buy something built for that instead of a ChatGPT retail card.

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

Related guides

• Where to buy a ChatGPT gift card and what it covers

  OpenAI sells digital ChatGPT gift cards of $15 to $250 through US retailers such as Best Buy. How to redeem one, what the balance pays for and what it will not.

• Will a ChatGPT gift card pay for the API?

  No. OpenAI says gift card balance does not fund API prepaid billing. Use API billing or a different prepaid product for developers.

• How to redeem a ChatGPT gift card

  Redeem at chatgpt.com/redeem on the web. The full value goes to one account wallet. It will not pay Apple or Google billed plans or the API.