I've been surprised by the reception to this, as OpenAI, for a while now, has had free API usage when data sharing is enabled (https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10306912-sharing-feedbac...)
I enabled all data sharing settings but still don’t have a message about free use on that screen - the help page says free tokens are available to “some” users - is that 1% of users, 40% of users, etc?
Does your screen have the message that you’re getting free tokens?
https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/data-contr...
Yeah, I have it enabled for just one of my projects, and it says "You're enrolled for complimentary daily tokens." Haven't been billed for any usage with this. Their tooltip doesn't mention the newer models, but it works for those too. I used them in a recent project that I knew wouldn't hit the rate limits. Not sure how eligibility is decided though.
I tried following this page, and it's certainly a lot more complex than what Meta is offering. Different price tiers, opt-in configurations, usage based availability.. I'll take the 10x discount for flipping a param switch over this all day long.
Seems pretty clear to me: enable it for the projects you want, and there’s a 1M / 10M token limit per day, depending on the model you use. Assuming an average context size of 100k tokens, that is 10 to 100 requests, which is not a lot. Reason enough to prefer actually paying for Meta as well.
Does it show the free tokens message for you after you enable sharing? It does not for me.
This seems to be for business plans only?
Does it say that? I’m unclear.
Even non business accounts seem to have org settings pages: https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/data-contr...
But even with all data sharing enabled, I’m not seeing the free tokens message there.
Do others see a free tokens message at https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/data-contr... after enabling all sharing there?
Also, in a desktop browser at the page's [1] lower left it says "Personal organization", so if the 'organization' term is the concern, OpenAI still seems to use the term 'organization' even for personal accounts.
[1] https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/data-contr...
Subscription plans share data by default (it is possible to opt out though)
In my experience using DeepSeek v4 Flash free tier (context size limited to ~200k), the model isn't nearly as good as the paid one for agentic coding tasks. Unsure, if that's the case with these other providers too, though I wouldn't be surprised if it indeed is.
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