OpenAI rolls out credit tracking and spending limits for ChatGPT Enterprise

OpenAI has launched enhanced usage analytics and updated spend controls for ChatGPT Enterprise on Thursday, giving corporate administrators better tools to monitor AI credit consumption and set important budget caps across their organizations, as institutional AI spending continues to hit new highs.

These new features address a growing pain point for large companies, as the cost of AI tools rises alongside broader employee adoption. Power users can burn through credits quickly, and these features will help administrators have better visibility into where the spending is going.

New analytics and spending controls

The company’s Global Admin Console now consolidates ChatGPT and Codex credit usage into one dashboard, according to the OpenAI announcement. Administrators can filter consumption data by individual user, product, and AI model.

The console also helps with data about trends over time, which would assist IT teams in spotting emerging usage patterns and identifying which employees are consuming the most credits. OpenAI also claims said data is available to be programmed straight into companies’ financial systems through a unified Cost API.

OpenAI first introduced per-role credit limits for custom roles earlier in 2026. The update extends that system further through three different levels. Firstly, workspace-wide defaults let admins set a baseline credit cap that applies to every employee. Secondly, group-level limits allow different budgets for different teams. Then lastly, individual overrides give specific users higher capacity without raising limits for everyone else.

On the employee side, workers can now see how much of their credit budget they’ve used and submit requests for more, including a note explaining what they need the additional capacity for.

Early adopter response

Zipline co-founder Ryan Oksenhorn said the company has been using Codex since January 2026 and recently expanded the product’s adoption to the whole company. “We asked the team at OpenAI to build usage analytics to help find and train-up folks who haven’t adopted Codex, and for granular usage controls to keep spend predictable,” Oksenhorn said in the OpenAI statement.

He added that the tools are helping Zipline “faster scale productivity of our employees while keeping safeguards in place.”

The analytics and updated controls are available immediately to all ChatGPT Enterprise workspaces. Individual employees in those workspaces can view their own credit usage through their workspace settings.