OAI API switching to pre-paid billing

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I’ve always been punctual with my API fees and never had any delinquencies, but last October, I was compelled to transition to a prepaid system.

I’ve also included detailed screenshots of my environment in this topic for your reference.

Switch to prepaid billing in middle of billing cycle

I’m not entirely ruling out the possibility that I might be missing something. However, to the best of my knowledge, OpenAI is the only LLM service provider that insists on a prepaid system. Take Microsoft Azure for instance, it doesn’t employ a prepaid system at all, and if you hold a Microsoft Azure account, it operates on a monthly billing basis. This might just be my case, but both Anthropic and Mistral also operate on a monthly billing system. [Anthropic] [Mistral] I don’t believe t…