Why does the OpenAI key expire so fast?

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One of our users registered for an OpenAI API key just now for use in a project, but the key expires in May 1 this year. Why?

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Previously, you would’ve received 12 months to spend the $18 grant, but why is it now less than two weeks? Thanks.

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Thanks. However, some users still receive $18 when they first sign up now, and this does not explain why we have so less time for the free trial.

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But why does free credits gets expired after few days, I haven’t utilized credits & credits got expire.

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The trial period starts from account creation, not from your first API experimentation. Expiration date then seems to align with the start of a month.

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I understand, but I think it may not be reasonable, it should start from my first api call, because most of new users want to try chatgpt’s chat function in a browser, then they will start to thinking how their business can use chatgpt, then read the api document, but when they want to make a api call, they found the trial credit already expire, unfortunately.

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I agree with you, this not make sense, I just started to try the api call today and I see my credits has already expired… Created my account in 2023 Jan, and never had used for api call… disappointing