Complimentary tokens (faster and more furiouser!): GPT-5.4-mini is charged for 1m token group rather than 10m token group

I went back and forth with them yesterday, but no replies since then.

I do have good news from a reddit thread:

r/OpenAI

API - Mistakenly being charged actual money when I should be getting...

Hello all, for the past few days I have been being charged upwards of 20 cents per day when my usage should be less than 1 cent per day. I know this sounds cheap on my part, but I should be getting 250,000 complimentary tokens per day on large models...

5 points | 21 comments — u/evilducky6

This is from the same employee who posted in the original community thread. At least he seems to have an inside track.