GPT-5.5 is the free model of the week.
Hold 5M $HYRE and run 1,000 GPT-5.5 calls a week on the HYRE Gateway — for free. Everyone else pays 50% off retail. One week, Mon → Mon UTC. The window closes 2026-07-06 and pricing auto-reverts the second it hits zero — no redeploy, no toggle, no "extended one more day."
ONE WEEK · AUTO-REVERTS · NO CATCH
GPT-5.5 retails at $7.50 / $45.00 per 1M tokens. For seven days it's $3.75 / $22.50 for everyone, and 1,000 calls a week are on the house if you hold 5M $HYRE. We're not capping winners — every qualifying holder gets the grant.
The numbers
| TOKENS | UNIT | RETAIL | PROMO |
|---|---|---|---|
| INPUT | per 1M tokens | $7.50 | $3.75 |
| OUTPUT | per 1M tokens | $45.00 | $22.50 |
Catalog retail = upstream COGS × 1.20. Promo price = floor(retail ÷ 2). Margin is intentionally below COGS this week — sponsored by the Virtuals Developer Inference Credit.
How to claim it
Hold 5M $HYRE
Threshold is checked live, summed across every wallet linked to your HYRE account. Holding more doesn't grant more — the cap is per holder, not per coin.
Call GPT-5.5 like any other model
Same OpenAI-compatible endpoint as the rest of the Gateway. Pass model: openai-gpt-55 in the request body — no special header, no API key.
Free until you hit 1,000
Each successful call deducts one from your weekly budget. Counter is per-model and Monday-anchored UTC, so it never collides with the GLM 5.2 or Virtuals frontier promos that are also live.
After 1,000 (or if you don't hold)
Calls fall through to paid retail — automatically 50% off through the same window. No surprise bills: the Gateway debits from your prepaid USDC credit, never overdrafts.
Why GPT-5.5
GPT-5.5 is OpenAI's flagship general-purpose model — 1M-token context, frontier reasoning, the model you'd normally reach for when nothing else will do. The HYRE Gateway routes it through Virtuals Compute, so this week the model that usually costs the most is the cheapest premium model on the platform. After the window, retail returns and it sits with the rest of the proprietary frontier tab (Claude Opus 4.8, Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.3) at the standard catalog rate.
No catch, on-chain
The window is a pure wall-clock check inside the gateway — every request gets re-evaluated against UTC time, so there's no "we forgot to turn it off" tail and no surprise late charges. The holder check sums live balance across linked wallets at request time. Hit the cap and the next call quietly falls through to the 50%-off paid leg — you'll see it in your usage feed; you won't see it in a bounce.
Verify everything
Gateway docs
Endpoint, request shape, streaming, and the full model catalog with live retail pricing.
Open →Promo registry
Every active promo is a typed entry in promo.ts — window, threshold, weekly cap. Open-source, append-only, auto-reverts on the clock.
Open →Buy $HYRE
Spot market on Solana. 5M $HYRE crosses you into the free tier — and 20% of every paid call buys back and burns supply.
Open →