Why openai CHATGPT PRO monthly subscription cost $ 200? Because Altman himself said that. “Personally, I chose the price and thought we would earn some money” Altman wrote on X.
The plan launched at the end of last year designed for advanced users includes almost unlimited access to chatgpt, as well as the first DIB during the premiere of functions, such as the recent Openai agent. The plan attracted, well, advanced users. A month after the initial release, Altman stated that Opeli is still losing money at all you can.
Although Altman admitted that the monthly level of USD 200 was a lost money, the edition established a precedent and initiated the price era based on the atmosphere of pricey Chatbot subscriptions.
AI generative tools are pricey and demanding resources, and many startups are quickly burning for cash. And just like Opeli, he defined the consumer market for chatbots along with the cost of chatgpt, the level of the Altman price of $ 200 for ChatgPT Pro was adapted by competitors.
In April, Anthropic dropped Claude Max for 200 USD per month. Google started playing shortly after You have ultra A plan for Gemini, which costs USD 250 per month and includes storage in the cloud. After these editions, a monthly USD $ Ultra cursor Plan, coding supported by AI and 200 USD per month Embarrassment max Plan, searching for AI. The latest addition to the trend, the Supergrok XAI plan, is also the most pricey for $ 300.
Despite this trend in the valuations of the most pricey levels, many companies still offer free, though narrow, access to their generative AI tools, as well as a 20 USD plan for a month for users who want to have more access to models, but they do not have Buck Wild with it.
“This higher level subscription is the first testing of new interfaces and new interactions,” he says Allie K. MillerAn influential business consultant who subscribes to many of the most pricey plans. He sorts who actually pays for these plans in the amount of USD 200 in two basic groups. First of all, you have a faction of people from the Silicon Valley who have money to burn and want to experiment with “alpha products that are on the more expensive side.” In this group, the value is not about making money using tools. “It gives them not only cachet in their community, but they feel like an explorer of the new age,” he says. Miller Gniew owners Google Glass and Apple Vision Pro in the same group.
The second basic group of submarines, as Miller describes, believes that he is obtaining a solid return on investment. “We earn this money with the time saved or revenues earned in very little time,” he says. This may include investors from the Silicon Valley who are trying to apply AI Ultra to automate E -Mail communication, programmers who apply Claude Max for coding for many hours, and investment bankers who are embarrassing to embarrass Max for daily market updates. Dmitriry Shevelenko, a business director in embarrassment, claims that most subscribers of the Max plan apply it as a tool to earn money.