ChatGPT Pricing
- AI pricing
- $8/mo at the smallest
- Free plan
ChatGPT pricing starts at $8 a month, which is $96 over twelve months. There is a free plan.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 27 September 2026.
ChatGPT pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Free; Go from $8/month, Plus $20/month |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $8 a month, or $96 a year |
| How that is reached | Go at $8 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | Yes |
| Free trial | No trial offered |
| How it charges | freemium |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 27 September 2026 |
Every ChatGPT plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 27 September 2026. Charged as freemium. No free trial is offered.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | per month | Rate-limited access to current models |
| Go | $8 | per month | 1 user |
| Plus | $20 | per month | 1 user |
| Pro | From $100 | per month | Extended access to the heaviest reasoning models. OpenAI's help centre says new sign-ups to the $200 Pro plan are temporarily paused, and existing $200 subscriptions renew as usual |
| Business | $20 | per month | per standard seat, billed annually - Formerly ChatGPT Team, renamed on 29 August 2025. $25 per standard seat billed monthly. A premium seat, with 5x the usage of a standard seat, is $100 billed annually or $125 monthly. Admin console, and workspace data excluded from training by default |
| Enterprise | Custom | Negotiated | – |
What ChatGPT actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go1 user | per month | $8 | $96 |
| Plus1 user | per month | $20 | $240 |
| Pro | per month | $100 | $1,200 |
| Businessper standard seat, billed annually | per month | $20 | $240 |
ChatGPT pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against ChatGPT |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | $8 a month | Yes | This product |
| Claude | $17 a month | Yes | +$9 a month (+113%) |
Which ChatGPT plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You want to find out whether it helps at all | Free | Rate-limited access to current models. Enough to judge before paying anything. |
| You use it most days for writing and analysis | Plus | $20 a month is the standard working tier, and the one most people should start with. |
| You want a cheaper paid tier than Plus | Go | $8 a month sits between Free and Plus if Plus is more than you need. |
| You run heavy reasoning tasks all day | Pro | From $100 a month. Only worth it if you are genuinely hitting Plus limits. |
| Your company needs data excluded from training | Business | $20 per standard seat a month billed annually, or $25 monthly, with at least 2 seats. Workspace data is excluded from training by default and you get an admin console. |
| You mainly work with very long documents | Consider Claude instead | Long-context handling is stronger, which matters more than ecosystem for that job. |
What it replaces
For most teams ChatGPT quietly absorbs four jobs: the first draft, the summary of something long, the quick script nobody wanted to write, and the explanation of a concept outside your field. None of those were previously a software category. That is why adoption ran ahead of procurement.
The accuracy problem, stated plainly
Large language models generate fluent text, not verified text. ChatGPT will invent statistics, misattribute quotes and produce citations to papers that do not exist. Browsing reduces this but does not remove it. The workable rule: use it where you can check the answer cheaply, and avoid it where you cannot.
Free versus Plus versus Business
The free tier is fine for occasional use. Plus is worth it once you use the assistant most working days, primarily for access to the stronger reasoning models and higher limits. Business exists for one reason that matters to companies: workspace data is excluded from model training by default and an admin can see and control the account. If your organisation has a data-protection review, start at Business rather than retrofitting it.
Compared with Claude
Claude tends to be preferred for long-document work, careful editing and codebase-scale reasoning; ChatGPT has the larger ecosystem, better image generation and stronger mobile apps. Many people who work with AI daily pay for both, which is a reasonable signal that the two are not interchangeable.
ChatGPT questions, answered
- Does ChatGPT have a free plan or free trial?
- ChatGPT has a free plan. No free trial is offered.
- Can I self-host ChatGPT?
- No. ChatGPT is a hosted service only, so your data lives on the vendor's infrastructure.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 27 September 2026.
What this profile is based on
Nobody here has used ChatGPT. This profile is desk research: prices read from the pages cited below, on the dates shown , from 3 primary sources , with 2 captures taken by us . How we research a profile.
Desk research from OpenAI's own ChatGPT pricing page and help centre, re-read on 27 September 2026 through a United States egress, including the pricing page's Business and Enterprise tab. Nobody here has used ChatGPT for a documented test, and no model quality was benchmarked.
Where ChatGPT appears on this site
- Another profile Claude names it as a competitor
- Another profile DeepSeek names it as a competitor
- Another profile Google Gemini names it as a competitor
- Another profile Grok names it as a competitor
- Another profile Microsoft Copilot names it as a competitor
- Another profile Mistral names it as a competitor
- Another profile Perplexity names it as a competitor
Counts pages on this site that name the product by choice - price guides, pricing question pages, deal records and other profiles. Category and directory indexes list everything automatically and are not counted.
Provenance and freshness
What has changed
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September 2026
- Recorded the Business seat price, read on the pricing page's Business and Enterprise tab and in OpenAI's help centre: $20 per standard seat billed annually or $25 monthly, from 2 users, and a premium seat at $100 or $125
- Pro is "From $100" on the pricing page; new sign-ups to the $200 Pro plan are paused
- Free, Go at $8 and Plus at $20 re-read and unchanged
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August 2026
- Prices re-read for the AI assistants guide; Free, Go at $8, Plus at $20 and Pro from $100 unchanged
- Recorded that plan allowances are described in adjectives rather than published figures
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August 2026
- Plan ladder re-verified, including the Go tier
- Added plan picker and verdicts
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- ChatGPT pricing page - checked 27 September 2026
- ChatGPT Business overview, OpenAI help centre - checked 27 September 2026
- OpenAI enterprise privacy commitments - checked 19 August 2026
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