Understand Your Credit Usage

Audience

• ChatGPT Edu customers who want to track and conserve their credit usage.

Understanding Credit-Based Features

Your ChatGPT Edu license includes limited access to advanced capabilities such as Deep Research, Thinking models, Image Generation, Advanced Voice, and Codex that use credits to run. To see how many credits each feature consumes, please refer to the ChatGPT Rate Card and Codex rate card.

If you hit your limit, advanced credit-based features will be unavailable until the credit allocation resets.

Viewing Your Usage

Check how many credits you have used within the allocation window: 

• ChatGPT Usage

• ChatGPT Codex Usage

Optimizing Credits

1. Check the credit cost for features, models and Codex usage.  

   1. View the ChatGPT Rate Card and Codex rate card

2. Align the right model to meet your needs. 

   1. Choose the default model for everyday chats

   2. Compare ChatGPT Models and their capabilities to consume credits only when necessary

3. Understand when to use features. Learn more about these credit-based features and what they are best used for.

   1. Compare Deep Research vs Search

   2. Learn about using Workspace Agents 

   3. Create Images with ChatGPT

   4. Learn about ChatGPT Voice