Holiday gift guide: prepaid AI credit

Prepaid AI credit is money someone spends on model usage. You buy it once. They burn it down. There is no monthly plan hiding underneath.

Who it is for

• Developers who hit weekly limits.
• Students and grads who need bursts of help, not a year of Plus.
• Anyone who switches between Claude and GPT.
• Relatives who want to gift “intelligence” without picking a brand.

Who should get something else

• Someone under 18 (Brass is 18+).
• Someone outside the US (Brass gifts are US only).
• Someone who asked for a specific ChatGPT Plus year and has a US USD account ready for an OpenAI gift card.

Pack sizing

$10-$25 for a stocking. $50 for a serious hobbyist. $100-$250 for someone whose job runs on models.

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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