According to Sam Altman, OpenAI now lets users buy credits to continue using Codex after hitting subscription limits, and the company expects to apply this approach to compute-intensive features to keep subscription prices low for most users while allowing heavy users to purchase more capacity (Source: Sam Altman on X, Oct 30, 2025). This confirms a usage-based, pay-as-you-go pricing option for compute-heavy AI features; the announcement does not mention any cryptocurrencies or tokens, but traders can note this verified pricing update when evaluating AI-compute exposure and product cost structures (Source: Sam Altman on X, Oct 30, 2025).