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ChatGPT

Verified Oct 16, 2026 Active
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General assistant with tools, memory, files and voice

general assistantquestion answeringdocument analysisweb browsingdeep researchFreemium · from $8/mo

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Web · iOS · Android · macOS · Windows · API
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Pricing

Pricing model
Freemium
Paid options from
$8/mo
Billing
Monthly

Individual tiers on the pricing page: Free $0, Go $8/month (monthly only, may include ads), Plus $20/month, Pro from $100/month with a choice of three usage tiers (the page shows only the entry figure). Business is per user: Standard seats $20/month billed annually or $25 monthly, Premium seats $100 or $125, minimum 2 users; Enterprise is quote-only and annual. Ads may appear on Free and Go; Plus and above are ad-free. The developer API is billed separately by token. The OpenAI and ChatGPT sites refuse direct fetches, so these pages were read through a text reader proxy.

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Overview

About ChatGPT

ChatGPT answers questions and takes on tasks across text, pictures, documents and spoken input, with search, a code sandbox and picture generation built into the same window. Paid tiers raise message limits and open up the stronger reasoning models, a deep-research mode and connectors into other applications. Since early 2026 the free and Go tiers also carry advertising.

Platforms
Web · iOS · Android · macOS · Windows · API
API
Yes
Last verified
Oct 16, 2026

Verified sources

  • Pricing page: Free $0, Go $8/month with a note that the plan may include ads, Plus $20/month, Pro from $100/month with three usage tiers; monthly billing for Go, Plus and Business, annual for Business and Enterprise; Business from 2 users (15 October 2026)openai.com ↗
  • Business pricing: Standard seat $20/month billed annually or $25/month billed monthly; Premium seat $100/month annually or $125/month monthly (15 October 2026)openai.com ↗
  • Help Center: ad testing started in the United States on 9 February 2026; ads may appear on Free and Go, never on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu (15 October 2026)help.openai.com ↗
  • Released 30 November 2022 by OpenAI; Plus $20/month from February 2023; Pro from December 2024; Go launched India-only August 2025en.wikipedia.org ↗
Fact check

Is ChatGPT legit?

We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.

Domain registered
Nov 30, 2022 (3 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar MarkMonitor Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
TLS certificate
Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Dec 19, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
Last checked
Oct 16, 2026The site answered, but turned our crawler away
On the market since
2022The vendor's own material, read by us
Operated by
OpenAI, United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026

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Editorial verdict

Pros & cons of ChatGPT

medium confidence

ChatGPT is the default general assistant and the one everyone else is measured against, but the tier you need is rarely the one you first buy. Free is now ad-supported, and the jump to genuinely unlimited reasoning is steep.

Pros

  • Broadest tool surface of any consumer assistant: browsing, code, images, voice, connectors
  • The $8 Go tier closed the gap between free and a $20 commitment
  • Apps on every desktop and mobile platform, not just a web wrapper
  • Model quality is consistently at or near the front of the field

Cons

  • Advertising now appears on the free and Go tiers
  • Message and reasoning limits are opaque and change without notice
  • Tier structure has churned repeatedly, so any price you quote ages fast
  • The API is a separate purchase, which surprises buyers who assume Plus includes it

Best for

  • General knowledge work, drafting, analysis and code across one interface
  • Anyone who wants file, image, voice and browsing input without assembling tools
  • Teams that need admin controls and data-retention terms via Business or Enterprise
  • Light users who want more headroom than free without paying $20

Not for

  • Anyone who needs a guarantee their prompts never touch a third-party model provider
  • Buyers who want predictable, flat-rate heavy reasoning usage below $100 a month

Watch out: OpenAI started showing ads to free and Go users in February 2026. If ad-free matters, Plus at $20 is the real floor, not the $8 headline.

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