User Outraged as ChatGPT $20 Top-Up Depleted in Just 3 Prompts
Sharkito9 · reddit · 2026-08-19
A long-time ChatGPT and Codex user complained that after exhausting their $100 subscription, a $20 credit top-up was nearly depleted after just 3 prompts and a few minutes of work. The user expected it to last 3 months but found it vanished almost instantly, highlighting a massive discrepancy between subscription pricing and API rates.
More from Companies & People
- Hollywood to be history in 10 years; China masters human preference data — bingxu_ · 2026-08-24
- Developer habits shift: Agents become collaborators from simple tools — latticecut · 2026-08-24
- SoftBank planning record $6.3B bond sale to fund OpenAI investments — tszzl · 2026-08-24
- Google Criticized: Gemini 3.7 Still Missing From Its Own Jules Agent a Week Later — brandon_galang · 2026-08-24
- Product Success Breeds Clones: What Is the Real Moat? — talkaboutdesign · 2026-08-24
- Enterprise AI budgets drained with no ROI: Where's the problem? — annetgriffin · 2026-08-24