Gift for an AI engineer who has every API key already

AI engineers already have console accounts. Console prepaid credit on your card is a weak gift: it expires on some labs and sits in an account you own.

Better

Give them spend they control, for personal or side work, without a new vendor relationship to manage. Prepaid packs do that. So does an OpenAI gift card if their personal ChatGPT is the bottleneck.

Skip novelty “AI” desk toys unless you know their taste.

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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