OpenAI just shipped milestone awards to its most active developers. We timed it with DevDay 2025 so we could hand the awards to eligible developers in person. Sharing some more info to clear up some questions — and hopefully inspire you to one day receive one of these awards! There are three level…

How did you make these Tokens of Appreciation?

They probably filled out a quote form: [image] From a trophy manufacturer that has similar custom manufacturing of awards [image] This type of back-patting trophy is called a “deal toy” or a “financial tombstone”. [image]

Any updates on this? We already passed 20B tokens but nothing from OpenAI.

These fabulous awards were distributed in conjunction with DevDay 2025 as noted in the first post, by staff no longer with OpenAI. [image] edwinarbus: inspire you to one day receive one [image] edwinarbus: I do hope there will be future batches and awards will be sent No updates excep…

Let me know if you hear anything from the @OpenAI_Support team Baki. I’m interested in receiving a plaque too! We do 1B tokens a month and haven’t heard a peep. Would be cool to get some love from the platform team, given that we’ve been integrated since 2021!

I will keep you posted as soon as I have any updates. @baki.kucukcakiroglu FYI: I will remove the duplicate post above.

Wonderful. Thank you @vb & @baki.kucukcakiroglu . VB - if you don’t mind, could you check on us too? Org ID ending in S4zu1. Thanks :slight_smile:

We received ours in the mail! Thanks guys :folded_hands:

Our org ID is org-xxx if you don’t mind checking for us too! :slight_smile:

Tokens of Appreciation — milestone awards for OpenAI API token usage

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baki.kucukcakiroglu January 14, 2026, 10:05am 19

Totally! The award really motivates devs. That said, the process should be run more transparently.

I opened an issue about this, and @vb mentioned they’re checking the situation with the responsible team. Please check the thread for updates:

Topic		Replies	Views
Token Trophies - Are they still a thing? Community api	0	94	March 19, 2026
Enqueued token limit reached API batch-api	26	2333	August 17, 2025
Free tokens on traffic shared with OpenAI extended through April 30, 2025! API	7	8506	April 21, 2025
Complimentary tokens (faster and more furiouser!): GPT-5.4-mini is charged for 1m token group rather than 10m token group Bugs	22	485	April 26, 2026
Request for Tier 5 API Access for Load Testing and Production Deployment API api-billing	13	421	July 14, 2025

Tokens of Appreciation — milestone awards for OpenAI API token usage

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