OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform, ChatGPT, is constantly evolving with recent features. It currently offers a store – GPT Store – with applications and services based on artificial intelligence. The recently introduced Memories feature allows you to save your preferences, making your chats more personalized to you. ChatGPT will soon gain an improved voice mode, allowing you to interact with the platform more or less in real time.
You may be wondering: how much does ChatGPT cost? Answering this question is more challenging than you think. OpenAI offers a range of ChatGPT plans, both paid and free, targeting customers ranging from individuals to non-profits, diminutive and medium-sized businesses, educational institutions and enterprises.
To keep track of the different ChatGPT subscription options available, we’ve put together a ChatGPT pricing guide. We will keep it updated as recent plans are introduced.
ChatGPT for free
Once upon a time, the free version of ChatGPT had quite circumscribed capabilities. But that changed as OpenAI introduced recent capabilities and the underlying generative AI models.
Free ChatGPT users get access to OpenAI’s flagship GPT-4o model, web-enriched replies, access to the GPT store, and the ability to upload files and photos and ask questions about uploaded files. Users can also store chat preferences as “memories” and take advantage of ChatGPT’s advanced data analytics feature, which can “parse” (i.e. analyze data from) files such as spreadsheets and PDF files.
However, the free ChatGPT plan has drawbacks, including daily performance limits on the GPT-4o model, depending on demand. When a user reaches the limits, they are automatically switched – albeit temporarily – to the less capable GPT-3.5 OpenAI model. ChatGPT free users also lose certain data analytics features, which we’ll discuss in more detail below.
ChatGPT Plus
For individual users who want a more powerful ChatGPT, there is ChatGPT Plus, which costs $20 per month.
ChatGPT Plus offers 5x the capacity of free ChatGPT, as well as early and priority access to newer tools such as the macOS OpenAI client for ChatGPT.
Additionally, ChatGPT Plus subscribers get an enhanced data analytics feature powered by GPT-4o that allows you to create interactive charts and tables from your datasets. Users can upload files for analysis directly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive or from their devices.
ChatGPT Team
Let’s say you own a diminutive business or manage an organization and need more than one ChatGPT license and collaboration features. ChatGPT Team may fit the bill: it costs $30 per user per month or $25 per user per month, billed annually for up to 149 users.
The ChatGPT team provides a dedicated workspace and administrative tools to manage your team. All ChatGPT Team plan users get access to the latest OpenAI models and the above-mentioned tools that allow ChatGPT to analyze, edit and extract information from files. Additionally, ChatGPT Team enables team members to create and share custom apps – similar to apps in the GPT Store – based on OpenAI models. These apps can be tailored to specific operate cases or departments, or tailored to your team’s data.
ChatGPT Enterprise
Immense organizations—specifically, any organization needing more than 149 ChatGPT licenses—can choose ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT’s plan aimed at OpenAI corporations. OpenAI does not publish the price of ChatGPT Enterprise, but reported the cost is approximately $60 per user per month with a minimum of 150 users and a 12-month contract.
ChatGPT Enterprise adds “enterprise-grade” privacy and data analytics features to the core ChatGPT, as well as improved performance and customization options. There’s a dedicated workspace and admin console with tools to manage how employees in your organization operate ChatGPT, including integrations for single sign-on, domain verification, and a dashboard showing usage and engagement statistics.
Shared conversation templates delivered within ChatGPT Enterprise enable users to create internal workflows and bots using ChatGPT, while the merits of the OpenAI API platform allow companies to create fully custom ChatGPT-based solutions if they so choose.
ChatGPT Enterprise customers also gain priority access to OpenAI’s models and lines of expertise, including a dedicated customer support team, training and consolidated billing. They are also eligible for business partnership agreements with OpenAI, which are required by US law for companies that want to operate tools like ChatGPT with private health information such as medical records.
ChatGPT Edu
ChatGPT Edu, OpenAI’s newer offering includes a version of ChatGPT built for universities and their students, as well as faculty, researchers and campus operations teams. Prices have not yet been made public or reported second-hand, but we will update this section if they do.
ChatGPT Edu is comparable to ChatGPT Enterprise, except that it supports SCIM, an open protocol used to simplify identity and access management in the cloud. (OpenAI plans to bring SCIM to ChatGPT Enterprise in the future.) As with ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu customers get data analytics tools, administrative controls, single sign-on, enhanced security, and the ability to create and share custom chatbots.
ChatGPT Edu also features the latest OpenAI models and, importantly, increased message limits.
OpenAI for nonprofits
OpenAI for nonprofits is OpenAI’s early foray into technology solutions for nonprofits. This is not a standalone ChatGPT plan, but a range of discounts for qualifying organizations.
Nonprofit organizations can access the ChatGPT team at a discounted rate of $20 per month per user. Larger nonprofits can get 50% off ChatGPT Enterprise, which works out to about $30 per user.
However, the eligibility requirements are quite stringent. While nonprofit organizations based anywhere in the world can apply for discounts, OpenAI is not currently accepting applications from academic, medical, religious, or government institutions.