Requesting at the offering price means you commit before the stock hits the open market. Whether that works in your favour depends entirely on how the stock performs.
For example, Cerebras Systems priced at $185 in May 2026 and closed its first day at $311. Anyone who bought on the open market that morning paid significantly more than those with an IPO allocation.
It can also go the other way. Uber priced at $45 in 2019 and closed its first day down 7.6%, so allocation holders were at a loss before the day ended.
That's the nature of IPO investing, you commit to a price before the market opens, and what happens next is up to the market.