OpenAI Academy: Foundations Pathway Certificate of Completion
From OpenAI Academy
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What you'll learn
You complete three courses, AI Foundations, Applied AI Foundations and Agents and Workflows, passing each assessment at 80% or higher. Along the way you turn good prompts into repeatable workflows with review points and delegate tasks to agents.
- AI basics, prompting and responsible use
- Repeatable workflows and capability selection
- Review points and human review
- Delegating tasks to agents with oversight
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Is this right for you?
- Level
- Beginner People new to this. You can start today with no experience.
- What you get
- A certificate from a name employers know, ready to add to LinkedIn and your résumé the day you finish. It costs nothing to take.
- How you learn
- Online, self paced, about 3.5 to 4.25 hrs.
- How to use it
- Add it to LinkedIn under Licenses and certifications, post it with one thing you learned, and name the exact skills on your résumé. Then bring it up in interviews and show how you use AI to get more done.
- Why it's worth it
- Fast, practical proof that you are ahead on AI. It shows initiative, gives you skills you can use the same day, and hands you something concrete to talk about with every hiring manager.
What you will payNothingThe learning and the certificate are free.
- Time
- About 3.5 to 4.25 hours total (sum of OpenAI estimates).
- Before you start
- ChatGPT account. Complete AI Foundations, Applied AI Foundations, and Agents and Workflows, passing each assessment at 80% or higher.
- How you are tested
- Online, self paced.
- Renewal
- None stated.
- Full cost details
- $0. Courses are free; certificate issued through Accredible.
- Where it applies
- Available globally to anyone with a ChatGPT account.
Checked at the source Oct 13, 2026
Sources and what we verified
OpenAI Help: pathway certificates of completion ↗OpenAI certificate courses announcement (Dec 9, 2025): OpenAI Certification pilots ↗What we verified: OpenAI states these are not certifications. The paid or proctored 'OpenAI Certification' announced in Dec 2025 had only employer and university pilots per the loaded announcement; no public price or open registration was found.
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