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6x price/token, so 15x price/second, and only at the API pricing level, not the far cheaper (per token) subscription pricing.

Definitely an interesting way to encourage whales to spend a lot of money quickly.

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I didn’t quite understand why they were randomly giving people $50 in credits. But I think this is why?

no, it’s for Max subscribers to enable “use API when running out of session limit”. the assumption (probably) being that many will forget to turn it off, and they’ll earn it back that way.

This was my first thought, but by default, you have no automatic reload of your prepaid account. Which I think is for once user friendly. They could have applied a dark pattern here.

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