ChatGPT Enterprise Workspace Agents Exit Free Preview and Begin Credit Billing Today

My take: OpenAI announced in May that the free period for workspace agents in ChatGPT would end on July 6 — which is today. From now on, every autonomous agent run on Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans consumes credits proportional to actual token usage. A typical run with GPT-5.5 uses between 5 and 25 credits, with rates of 125 credits per million input tokens and 750 per million output tokens.

What matters here is not the cost itself, but the signal: OpenAI is moving its agentic tools from free to experiment to pay per real use. It is the natural move for any tool that has matured and proven its value. For teams that have spent months building agent workflows, this is the moment to measure actual consumption and adjust. For those who have not tried them yet, it is a sign that the free exploration window is closing gradually across the industry.

If you have workspace agents running in ChatGPT, today is a good time to review the rate card, estimate your team's monthly usage, and prioritize the workflows that generate the most value. Does your organization have visibility into what its AI agents will cost starting today?