OpenAI Data Sharing and Complimentary Tokens Program

Organizations can opt in to share feedback, evaluations, and API usage data with OpenAI to help improve models and receive up to 11 M complimentary tokens per day.

$25,000 API credit grants

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About this credit.

OpenAI's Data Sharing Program allows API users to contribute feedback, evaluation data, prompts, completions, and traces to support model improvement and research. Participants maintain granular control over their data sharing settings at the organization or project level, with the ability to opt in or out at any time. Eligible organizations receive daily complimentary tokens on shared API traffic for specified GPT-4 and o‑series models, helping offset usage costs while contributing to future model advancements.

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The essentials.

Provider

OpenAI

Best deal

$25,000 API credit grants

Type

Credits

Value

$50-$2,000 USD

Status

Active

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Tiers & benefits.

Usage Tiers 1-2 Complimentary Tokens

$50

Organizations in usage Tiers 1‑2 receive daily complimentary tokens on shared API traffic. · Daily (refreshes at 00:00 UTC)

Benefits

  • Up to 250 000 free tokens per day for gpt-4.5-preview, gpt-4.1, gpt-4o, o1, and o1-preview models
  • Up to 2 500 000 free tokens per day for gpt-4.1-mini, gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-4o-mini, o1-mini, and o3-mini models
  • Automatic application upon enabling data sharing
  • Granular control over which projects share data

Eligibility

  • Account owner must enable data sharing at the organization or project level
  • Organization must not have Zero Data Retention enabled or be on certain Enterprise plans
  • Utilization of approved GPT-4 and o‑series models
  • Membership in usage Tiers 1 or 2

How to apply

1
Opt in to Data Sharing

Organization owners navigate to the data sharing settings in the OpenAI API Dashboard and enable sharing for all or selected projects.

Enable Sharing
2
Confirm Eligibility

Check the data sharing page to see if the "You're eligible for free daily usage on traffic shared with OpenAI" message appears.

Verify Eligibility

Usage Tiers 3-5 Complimentary Tokens

$2,000

Organizations in usage Tiers 3‑5 receive higher daily complimentary tokens on shared API traffic. · Daily (refreshes at 00:00 UTC)

Benefits

  • Up to 1 000 000 free tokens per day for gpt-4.5-preview, gpt-4.1, gpt-4o, o1, and o1-preview models
  • Up to 10 000 000 free tokens per day for gpt-4.1-mini, gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-4o-mini, o1-mini, and o3-mini models
  • Automatic application upon enabling data sharing
  • Granular control over which projects share data

Eligibility

  • Account owner must enable data sharing at the organization or project level
  • Organization must not have Zero Data Retention enabled or be on certain Enterprise plans
  • Utilization of approved GPT-4 and o‑series models
  • Membership in usage Tiers 3, 4, or 5

How to apply

1
Opt in to Data Sharing

Organization owners navigate to the data sharing settings in the OpenAI API Dashboard and enable sharing for all or selected projects.

Enable Sharing
2
Confirm Enrollment

Check the data sharing page to see if the "You're enrolled for up to 11 million complimentary tokens per day" message appears.

Verify Enrollment
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Frequently asked.

What is the OpenAI Data Sharing Program?

An initiative allowing organizations to share feedback, evaluation results, prompts, completions, and traces to help improve OpenAI models in exchange for complimentary daily tokens.

How do I opt in to share data?

Organization owners can navigate to the API Dashboard data sharing settings and enable data sharing for all or selected projects; members can then submit feedback or share traffic.

How are complimentary tokens applied?

Once data sharing is enabled and eligibility confirmed, free daily tokens are automatically applied to shared usage on supported GPT-4 and o‑series models; tokens refresh daily at 00:00 UTC.

Which models are eligible for complimentary tokens?

Supported models include gpt-4.5-preview-2025-02-27, gpt-4.1-2025-04-14, gpt-4o-2024-05-13, gpt-4o-2024-08-06, gpt-4o-2024-11-20, o3-2025-04-16, o1-preview-2024-09-12, o1-2024-12-17, gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14, gpt-4.1-nano-2025-04-14, gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18, o4-mini-2025-04-16, o1-mini-2024-09-12, and o3-mini-2025-01-31.

Can I opt out if I don't want to share data?

Yes, you can disable data sharing at any time via the data sharing settings page.

Claim OpenAI credits.

Organizations can opt in to share feedback, evaluations, and API usage data with OpenAI to help improve models and receive up to 11 M complimentary tokens per day.