0:00 I just released a ChatGPT pricing video a month ago, and things have already changed so much that I needed to redo it. And starting in December, ChatGPT is going to change how it counts your usage. So I'll also explain how things are about to change again. If you're here because you just watched that video, the biggest change is usage, skip ahead to that chapter. And if you're coming in new, wondering how the pricing breaks down and what you get at every level, this video is for you. And because this keeps changing, if things change again, I'll pin a comment at the top of this video to let you know what's different. I'm using US monthly prices as of November 2nd, and these are personal subscriptions. The business and
0:46 enterprise plans have their own pricing and team controls. They're just a whole different thing. All right, so here is the lineup. Free is of course free. Go is the $8 month plan. Plus is $20. And then the pro plans have multiple levels. You can get it at the $100, $200, or $500 a month level. Before we get into the details of the plans, it helps to know that ChatGPT is currently three different things. Chat is what most people think of. You chat with the agent, you ask questions, you search, you have a conversation. Work is for getting a more complex task done. You can research, analyze information, make things like documents,
1:31 spreadsheets presentations maybe websites. And in the ChatGPT desktop app, if you give it permission, it can also read and work with files on your computer. And then there's Codex, which is for building software. And generally, work and Codex get more model choices than chat does, including some of the most capable ones. Okay, so on to the plans. What do you get with the free plan? There's actually a lot more here than I had originally thought. OpenAI describes everyday text chats as unlimited. You can also search the web, upload files and images, analyze data, create images, use voice, and try deep research. Those
2:16 tools do have limits on the free plan, and OpenAI doesn't always say exactly what those limits are. You can also choose how hard ChatGPT thinks about its answer. Thinking levels are how much effort ChatGPT puts into its answer. More effort helps with harder questions and usually takes a little bit longer to answer. On the free plan, you get instant, which is the fastest, and a think toggle you can turn on when you want ChatGPT to put a little bit more effort into a harder question. There's also quite a few new features rolling out this month as well. ChatGPT can now answer your questions with visuals and tools that you can use right inside the
3:02 chat, like calculators and maybe side-by-side comparisons. You can connect your iCloud mail and calendar now, so ChatGPT can find emails, catch you up on your inbox, check or update your calendar schedule if you are an Apple user. And then there's locked chats. You can hide a chat from your chat list and from search, and it only opens with your pin or your device's unlock, like Face ID. ChatGPT now works inside Microsoft Word in a sidebar, so you can draft from notes, summarize a document, or revise the text you've selected. It can also make flashcards. Ask for flashcards on a topic or upload your notes, and you can flip through them
3:48 right in the chat. You also get limited access to Codex and to Work. On the free plan, Work is only available in the ChatGPT desktop app. The Health feature is available to eligible in the US on web and iOS, including free. To me, this is one of the best features ChatGPT offers. I'm really happy to see it on the free plan. [clears throat] Finances, where you can connect your financial accounts to understand your spending, also came to free and go in the US. Now, the free plan can also include ads depending on where you are. And then we move on to the go plans. Go sits between free and plus. In the US, it's $8 a month. The
4:36 main idea is that you get more usage of the tools you already had access to in free. So that means more image creation, more file uploads, more data analysis. That's when ChatGPT uses specific tools to work with your data, like maybe running calculations on a spreadsheet or making a chart for you. Go also gives ChatGPT a larger conversational context, which, in other words, is the ability to keep track of a longer ongoing conversation. You also get Codex with a monthly allowance. And go can also include ads depending again on where you are. Next up is plus. This is the $20 month plan. At the $20
5:21 level, plus is a bigger step up in what you can do. You get more thinking levels, uh medium and high. These are designed to work through a little bit more complicated things like planning or coding and problems that might take more steps to complete. You also get more deep research. That's a specific tool that reads and compares information from multiple sources, then gives you a report with citations. You get more work, and it 's available on the web and in the mobile app, not just the desktop app. You also get more Codex, including Codex Cloud, which means you can run coding tasks on OpenAI's computers in the cloud instead
6:07 of just on yours. Plus also includes sites. This is where you can just describe a website or an app, work with ChatGPT to refine it, and then ChatGPT will publish and host it for you. There is no longer a set limit on how many sites you can make. Building one does of course count towards your usage. I made a whole video on how to use sites because I think it's still really underutilized. I'll link that at the end. And then there's computer use. ChatGPT will ask your permission and can then see what's on your computer screen. It can click on, type in, and navigate the apps that you give it permission to use. I've used it to adjust the settings
6:53 on my laptop and even to see if a purchase I made on Amazon is still eligible for a return. And now we're at the Pro plans. These start at $100 a month. Pro adds the Pro reasoning level in chat. And on a big task, it can now split that work between several agents at the same time and you can watch each one's progress right in the chat. Then there's the Dots agent feature. Dots are customizable agents designed for ongoing responsibilities. Your dot keeps track of the work you give it across your projects over time. It can keep working between conversations, ask for your input when a decision needs you. Your dots usage is separate from your regular
7:39 usage and OpenAI says it's keeping extended limits for dots for now. I can even text my dot now. That's currently in beta for a limited number of Pro users in the US. Pro plans also get space, which is where your pages live. Now a page is a document you can edit yourself or by asking ChatGPT. Uh some of their examples include project trackers, trip planners, meeting notes, documents, slides, whatever. You can share your pages with other people. You can all edit it together. Each person can ask their own ChatGPT for help. You can also make slide decks in Space now, too. You can export those to
8:24 PowerPoint, PDF, or Google Slides. Pro also gets unlimited faster image creation and the most deep research. On the $500 plan only, there is an ultra fast mode. You get much faster responses, but it uses your allowance much faster, too, like eight times the normal rate. All the Pro plans now come with monthly API credits, $100, $200, or $500 a month depending on your tier, so it just matches what you pay for your subscription. Those credits are for calling OpenAI's models from inside your own apps, so you can embed AI into your
9:10 own app using an API key. You can't use those credits, however, for extra ChatGPT usage. Okay, here's the part of the plan that changed in a major way from last month, so if you skipped ahead from the last video, welcome. It's the amount of usage that the Pro plans get. I'm going to call the usage that the Plus plan gets the baseline amount of usage. At the Plus level, you get 1x of that allowance. But at the end of October, OpenAI doubled the work and Codex usage on the $100 and $500 Pro plans and canceled a cut it had planned for the $200 plan. So according to my math, at the $100 a month level, the Pro
9:56 plan gets 10 times as much usage as the Plus plan, but at only five times the cost. The $200 a month plan gets 20 times the usage, and the $500 plan gets 50 times the usage. The Plus plan, unfortunately, did not change. Plus also does have usage limits for work and Codex, one that resets every five hours and one that resets weekly. The Pro plans currently do away with the five-hour limit. They only have weekly limits. So here's where we get to the part where we need to talk a little bit about how that plan usage works today so we can understand what is about to happen. Currently, ChatGPT doesn't have just one giant usage limit for
10:44 everything. Chat has its own limit of usage. Image creation, file uploads, and voice each have their own allowance as well. And then work and Codex share another pool of usage for their tasks. That work and Codex usage is what that last set of pro usage chart is based on. But then we come to December. Starting in December, OpenAI has just announced that on Plus, Pro, and Business plans, Chat, Work, and Codex will all share one pool of shared usage. OpenAI says that's happening as they bring work into the main ChatGPT experience. This likely means there will
11:29 no longer be that separation between Chat and Work that you can currently see. They're already testing a combined Chat and Work experience together with a small group, and Anthropic did something similar with Claude in September. They folded their co-work product into their main Chat, so we are seeing this happen across multiple companies. If you want to find your own usage, just go to your profile and then usage. It shows you what you've used and when it resets. Now periodically OpenAI will hand out banked resets to users. This is sort of like a free get-out-of-jail card, a reset that you can use when you need it. If you happen to have any of those,
12:15 you'll see those down here at the bottom. You can use them when you need them. And in December, this is where I can only assume that shared pool of usage will also show up. There is one exception to that coming shared pool. OpenAI said that using instant chat will not draw from that usage. So what is instant chat? So you can see over here on the model level picker, it's just the lowest setting of thinking effort in chat. What OpenAI hasn't said is whether things like file uploads or image creation in an instant chat count towards that shared usage pool. Here's something else OpenAI hasn't told us yet, how big the pool is on each plan,
13:01 how often it resets, and the exact date it changes in December. We also don't know whether those separate limits like image creation or pro reasoning messages fold into that pool, whether the usage ladder I showed you carries over, or how dots fits in. When those numbers land, I will do a follow-up video. For now, that is the best information we have. If you're curious, I'm on the $100 a month pro plan. I upgraded from the $20 a month plan just in order to get access to their dot agent. I was on the fence about whether it would be valuable enough for me to keep the $100 a month plan, but surprisingly, I would have to say that the dot has
13:46 been worth it to me. Once I gave it access to my computer, which you do have to enable, that is not on by default, my dot can now see all of my projects, all of my files. It's exactly the kind of broader oversight for all the ongoing projects I have going on that I was looking for. To me, that feature alone was worth it. All right, hope that helped you decide what plan might be best for you. That's [snorts] it for today. Thanks for watching. I'll see you next time.
