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OpenAI API complimentary data-sharing tokens
A possible free offer exists, but a decisive term still needs verification.
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Models mentioned
gpt-5.5-2026-04-23gpt-5.4-2026-03-05gpt-4.1-2025-04-14o3-2025-04-16gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17gpt-5.4-nano-2026-03-17gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14o4-mini-2025-04-16Limits and terms
- Reset
- 00:00 UTC daily
- Tiers 1 And 2
- Large Model Group Tokens Per Day
- 250,000
- Small Model Group Tokens Per Day
- 2,500,000
- Tiers 3 To 5
- Large Model Group Tokens Per Day
- 1,000,000
- Small Model Group Tokens Per Day
- 10,000,000
- Caveat
- A request that would cross the quota is billed in full; fine-tuning, evals, and tool use are excluded.
What happens to your prompts?
Reviewed
- Plan Scope
- OpenAI API complimentary data-sharing tokens watchlist offer; current free delivery or eligibility remains unresolved.
- Prompt Retention
- Shared prompts and completions are deliberately provided to OpenAI for improvement. Outside the opt-in, default API abuse-monitoring logs may contain prompts and responses for up to 30 days, while stateful endpoints have separate retention.
- Response Retention
- Shared outputs receive the same improvement use; Responses and other stateful APIs can store application state according to endpoint settings, in addition to abuse logs.
- Ordinary Logging
- Default API abuse-monitoring logs can contain customer content and derived metadata for up to 30 days unless a separately approved retention control applies.
- Model Training
- Data sharing is off by default, but this free-token mechanism requires an organization owner to opt in to sharing inputs and outputs for evaluation and future model training.
- Product Improvement
- Shared traffic is used to identify usage patterns, measure model quality, and inform future evaluation and training.
- Human Or Operator Access
- Shared traffic enters OpenAI improvement systems. Safety exceptions can also permit retention and human review, including for certain detected content.
- Subprocessors And Routing
- OpenAI processes the selected eligible API traffic; data sent through tools such as remote MCP servers is separately governed by those third parties.
- Deletion Controls
- Organization owners can opt out prospectively at any time. Opting out ends future sharing but does not promise deletion or model unlearning for data already used.
- Caveat
- Complimentary tokens apply only to eligible organizations and only to traffic intentionally shared with OpenAI. A positive account balance is required, overages are billed, and Zero Data Retention organizations cannot enroll.
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Eligibility
- Organization Must Be Selected By OpenAI
- Yes
- Input Output Data Sharing Opt In Required
- Yes
- Positive Account Balance Required
- Yes
- Unavailable To
- EnterpriseZero Data Retention organizations