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Plans

Source: pricing-page · Verified May 3, 2026

Free
Free
/monthly
Plus
$20
/monthly
Pro
$100
/monthly
Pro (legacy)
$200
/monthly
Business
$20
/monthly
per seat
Enterprise
Contact Sales

Insights

Computed from plan data, changelog events, and field coverage.

Entry Price
$0
Lowest published plan price
Top Price
$200
Highest published plan price
AI Investment
heavy
Based on AI features, packaging, and credit mechanics
Pricing Complexity
medium
Plan count, add-ons, usage dimensions, credit systems
Transparency
high
Whether prices are publicly visible on pricing page
Pricing Velocity
active
Number of changelog events in last 12 months
Price Direction
stable
Direction of recent price changes from changelog
Field Fill Rate
100%
Percentage of schema fields populated

Changelog 14 events

feature added 2026-Q2

Launched Workspace Agents — AI employees that live inside existing tools to automate tasks

price increased 2026-Q1

Tripled GPT-5 mini pricing

Before: Previous GPT-5 mini rates
After: 3x GPT-5 mini rates
plan added 2026-Q1

Launched GPT-5 nano tier

promotion added May 14, 2026

Offered enterprise customers two free months of Codex + one-click migration tool for Claude Code configs. 30-day switch window closing ~June 13. Competitive response to Anthropic agent pricing changes.

feature removed May 12, 2026

DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 retired. All integrations must migrate to gpt-image-2. [unverified — secondary source]

feature added Apr 23, 2026

GPT-5.5 launched across Plus/Pro/Business/Enterprise tiers

pricing metric changed Apr 23, 2026

Codex pricing restructured from per-message to token-based

Before: per-message pricing
After: token-based pricing
price increased Apr 23, 2026

GPT-5.5 API pricing: $5.00/$30.00 per 1M tokens (input/output). Effective doubling from GPT-5.4 rates ($2.50/$15.00). Real cost impact +49% to +92% depending on prompt length.

Before: GPT-5.4: $2.50 input / $15.00 output per 1M tokens
After: GPT-5.5: $5.00 input / $30.00 output per 1M tokens
plan added Apr 9, 2026

New $100/mo Pro tier between Plus ($20) and existing Pro ($200). 5x Plus limits, 10x Codex promo through May 31.

price decreased Apr 2, 2026

Business plan $25→$20/seat/mo (-20%)

Before: $25/seat/mo
After: $20/seat/mo
feature added Apr 1, 2026

Turned on pay-per-click ads in ChatGPT free tier

plan added Jan 15, 2026

Go tier launched at $8/mo across ~170 countries. 10x more messages than Free, file uploads, image creation. [unverified — secondary source]

pricing metric changed 2025-Q3

Replaced seat licenses with pooled credit model for Enterprise and Team plans

Before: Seat-based licensing for Enterprise/Team
After: Pooled credit model across Enterprise/Team
plan added 2024-Q4

Launched ChatGPT Pro at $200/mo — 10x the price of ChatGPT Plus, targeting power users with unlimited access to o1 and advanced features

Before: ChatGPT Plus at $20/mo was the top consumer tier
After: ChatGPT Pro at $200/mo added as premium tier

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Notes

API platform for LLMs, image generation, and realtime AI. Pure usage-based, per-token pricing.

ChatGPT Consumer/Business Tiers

Plan Price Notes
Free $0/mo Limited GPT-4o access
Plus $20/mo GPT-5.5, extended limits
Pro $100/mo New Apr 2026. 5x Plus limits, 10x Codex promo through May 31
Pro (legacy) $200/mo Unlimited o1, advanced features
Business $20/seat/mo Was $25, reduced Apr 2026
Enterprise custom Pooled credits, SSO, data residency

GPT-5.5 launched Apr 23 across Plus/Pro/Business/Enterprise. Codex pricing restructured from per-message to token-based.

Flagship Models (per 1M tokens)

Model Input Cached Input Output
GPT-5.5 $5.00 $0.50 $30.00
GPT-5.4 $2.50 $0.25 $15.00
GPT-5.4 mini $0.75 $0.075 $4.50

Prices for context under 270K tokens.

Processing Modes

  • Standard — default, pay-as-you-go
  • Batch — 50% discount, async, 24hr window
  • Flex — lower cost, slower, occasional unavailability (non-production)
  • Priority — high-speed
  • Data Residency — +10%

Realtime (GPT-realtime-1.5, per 1M tokens)

Audio: $32 input / $64 output. Text: $4 / $16. Image: $5 input.

Image (GPT-image-2, per 1M tokens)

Image: $8 input / $30 output. Text: $5 input.

Tools

Web search: $10/1K calls (search content tokens free). Containers: $0.03 (1GB) to $1.92 (64GB) per session.

Enterprise

Data Residency, Scale Tier, Reserved Capacity — contact sales.

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