What OpenAI shipped on June 18 is not a feature — it is a concession to procurement . Per-group and per-user credit caps, a unified Cost API spanning ChatGPT and Codex, granular burn visibility in the Global Admin Console: these are the affordances finance teams require before they approve enterprise contracts, not the capabilities that engineers request. OpenAI is building the CFO argument it previously left to buyers to construct themselves.
Microsoft's parallel consideration of