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ChatGPT pricing, features, company info, and alternatives

A factual product page for ChatGPT across consumer, business, and enterprise plans.

Last updated April 2026 ยท Pricing and features verified against official documentation

Categories Productivity & Workflow
Starting price $8/month
Company OpenAI
Launched 2022
HQ San Francisco, CA, USA
Verified Apr 28, 2026

Pricing

Current public pricing tiers on file for ChatGPT, last verified Apr 28, 2026.

Free

$0 / month

Go

$8 / month

US price shown by OpenAI; localized pricing may vary by market.

Plus

$20 / month

Pro $100

$100 / month

5x the usage allowance of Plus.

Pro $200

$200 / month

20x the usage allowance of Plus.

Business

$25 / user/month

Billed annually; $30/user/month billed monthly. 2-seat minimum.

Enterprise

Custom

What You Can Do With It

The main capabilities that shape how people use ChatGPT today.

General chat, search, voice, image generation, file uploads, data analysis, and apps in one workspace.

Deep Research and agent mode for multi-step web work and synthesis.

Projects, tasks, custom GPTs, and connectors for reusable workflows.

Codex and desktop code edits for technical work, with GPT-5.5 also rolling out in Codex.

Best For

Who ChatGPT is most clearly built for.

Generalist users who want one assistant across writing, research, and light coding.

Teams that need shared workspaces, connectors, and admin controls.

Power users who want voice, apps, and agentic workflows without switching tools.

Model Notes

Current model information surfaced publicly for ChatGPT.

Latest model

GPT-5.3 Instant is the default for logged-in users. GPT-5.5 Thinking is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, and GPT-5.5 Pro is available on Pro plus Business, Enterprise, and Edu through flexible usage.

Context window

OpenAI currently lists GPT Instant total context windows of 27K on Free, 54K on Go, Plus, and Business, and 128K on Pro and Enterprise; GPT-5.5 Thinking is listed at 256K on paid tiers and 400K on Pro.

Model

GPT-5.3 Instant

Model

GPT-5.5 Thinking

Model

GPT-5.5 Pro

Model

GPT-5 Thinking Mini

Model

Codex

Company

Leadership and company context for OpenAI.

CEO

Sam Altman

Founders

Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, Wojciech Zaremba

Investors

Microsoft, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA, USA

Platforms

Where you can use ChatGPT today.

Web

iOS

Android

macOS desktop

Integrations

Notable connected tools and ecosystem hooks for ChatGPT.

Slack

Google Drive

SharePoint

GitHub

Dropbox

Atlassian

Custom GPT ecosystem

Privacy Notes

Publicly stated data-handling notes that matter when evaluating ChatGPT.

Consumer ChatGPT content may be used to improve models unless you opt out in Data Controls.

Temporary Chats are not used to train models.

Business and Enterprise workspace data is not used to train models by default.

Compliance

Public compliance or enterprise-governance signals we found for ChatGPT.

SOC 2 Type II

CSA STAR

GDPR support

CCPA support

Access

How to integrate or build around ChatGPT.

Public API

Yes

Docs

Available

iOS app

Available

Android app

Available

Alternatives

Other tools worth considering alongside ChatGPT.

Claude

AI assistant focused on long-context reasoning, writing quality, and agentic work.

Gemini

Google's multimodal assistant across the Gemini app, Google apps, and AI plans.

Microsoft Copilot

AI embedded across Microsoft 365, Windows, and enterprise workflows.

Perplexity

Cited AI search and research tool built around web discovery and synthesis.

Product Snapshot

ChatGPT is a general-purpose AI assistant for writing, coding, research, and agentic tasks. GPT-5.3 Instant is now the default model path for logged-in users, while GPT-5.5 Thinking is rolling out to paid tiers and GPT-5.5 Pro is reserved for Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu access.

What You Can Do With It

Why It Stands Out

It is built for generalist users who want one assistant across writing, research, and light coding.

Tradeoffs To Know

Changes to this tool page

  1. April 2026 Updated ChatGPT model availability and context-window language after OpenAI began rolling out GPT-5.5 in ChatGPT.
  2. April 2026 Added a ChatGPT free-plan tradeoff note based on the current pricing page so the pricing section is specific to this tool.
  3. April 2026 Corrected ChatGPT model-availability wording, company metadata, and source mapping after a fresh pass against current OpenAI pricing and help documentation.
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