ChatGPT pricing

Plan wording checked Oct 27, 2026 on chatgpt.com/pricing; dollar prices from OpenAI’s Codex pricing page (verified Oct 25, 2026). Other dates are under Sources. No affiliate links on this page (how we work).

What you’ll actually pay

ChatGPT has five plans for normal humans: Free ($0), Go ($8/month), Plus ($20/month), Pro (from $100/month, with $200 and $500 tiers) and Business ($25 per user per month, or $20 billed annually, 2+ users). Enterprise is contact-sales. All USD, verified Oct 25, 2026 on OpenAI’s Codex pricing page, which lists the same ChatGPT plans.

The quick version: Go is the cheapest paid plan, Plus is where Codex stops being “Limited” and becomes a real tool, and Pro is for people whose work actually hits limits every week. If you only care about Plus, our ChatGPT Plus cost breakdown goes deeper, including the “what does it cost for a year” math.

ChatGPT plans at a glance

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Best for
Free	$0	n/a	Trying it out
Go	$8	Not offered	Light daily use
Plus	$20	Not offered	Most people
Pro	$100 / $200 / $500	Not offered	Heavy Codex use
Business	$25/user	$20/user/mo	Teams of 2+

USD per month. Prices: Codex pricing, verified Oct 25, 2026. Billing rules: chatgpt.com/pricing, verified Oct 27, 2026. Enterprise and Edu: contact OpenAI.

Pro coming in three sizes, topping out at $500 a month, is the most Succession thing in AI pricing: somewhere, a ludicrously capacious bag of tokens is being sold, and the only question is whether you’re the guest who needs it.

What each plan adds

From OpenAI’s own plan cards and comparison grid on chatgpt.com/pricing (verified Oct 27, 2026):

• Free: “Unlimited text chats with GPT-6” (footnote: “subject to abuse guardrails”), plus “Limited” messages with uploads, image creation, voice chats, deep research, memory, Codex access and ChatGPT Work access on desktop. GPT Instant context is 27K.
• Go ($8): “More messages with tools”, “More uploads”, “More image creation”, “More voice chats” and “Longer memory”. GPT Instant context doubles to 54K, reasoning context is 256K, and Codex is still “Limited”. The catch, in OpenAI’s words: “This plan may include ads.”
• Plus ($20): same 54K / 256K context as Go, and Codex flips from “Limited” to “Yes”. Plus covers Codex “on the web, in the CLI, in the IDE extension, and on iOS” (Codex pricing, verified Oct 26, 2026).
• Pro ($100+): 128K GPT Instant context, 400K reasoning context, and Codex marked “Expanded”. OpenAI says “Pro 200 includes more usage than Pro 100. Pro 500 offers the highest included usage” (About ChatGPT Pro plans, verified Oct 21, 2026).
• Business ($25/user): a team plan “available starting at 2 users”, with annual billing.
• Education and nonprofits: no student plan, but OpenAI lists “ChatGPT for Teachers, a free plan for verified U.S. K–12 educators through June 2027”, ChatGPT Edu for universities, and “up to a 75% discount on ChatGPT Business or ChatGPT Enterprise” for nonprofits.

Go running ads is very Wayne’s World. Wayne at least announced “I will not bow to any sponsor” while holding a pizza; OpenAI just tells you up front, which honestly is the more respectable version.

Free plan limits

Here’s the frustrating part: OpenAI publishes no numbers for the Free plan. Uploads, images, voice, deep research and Codex are all just “Limited” on the pricing page, and response times are “Limited on bandwidth & availability” (verified Oct 27, 2026). The one clear yes is text: “Unlimited text chats with GPT-6”, subject to abuse guardrails. Scheduled tasks are a flat “No”.

If a site gives you an exact Free message cap, ask where it got it, because it isn’t on OpenAI’s page.

Yearly vs monthly billing

Short answer: only Business and Enterprise can be billed yearly. OpenAI’s pricing FAQ: “We offer monthly plans for Go, Plus and Business and annual plans for Business and Enterprise” (chatgpt.com/pricing, verified Oct 27, 2026).

• Plus: “we do not support annual billing or the option to pay for multiple months in advance” (What is ChatGPT Plus?, verified Oct 25, 2026). What a year of Plus adds up to is in ChatGPT Plus cost.
• Pro: “Pro is billed monthly. Annual billing and payment for multiple months in advance are not available” (verified Oct 21, 2026).
• Business: $25 per user per month billed monthly, or $20 per user per month billed annually, from 2 users.

So the only yearly discount in the lineup is the team one. Solo buyers pay month to month, which at least means you can quit in a bad month.

Which plan includes Codex

“Codex is included across ChatGPT plans, including Free and Go” (OpenAI Help, verified Oct 26, 2026). One line per plan:

• Free and Go: “GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the desktop app, subject to rollout”. No Codex Cloud, no published limit.
• Plus: Codex in the web, CLI, IDE extension and iOS, with five-hour usage estimates.
• Pro: “Pro plans currently have no five-hour limit”; weekly limits may apply.
• Business: Standard Business seats get the same local-message estimates as Plus.

Full breakdown: Codex plans and pricing, and if you’re asking whether you can skip paying altogether, Is Codex free?.

Comparing with Claude and Gemini

Same $20 shelf, different products. ChatGPT vs Claude covers the $20-vs-$20 call, Gemini vs ChatGPT covers Google’s side, and coders should start at AI coding tools compared.

FAQ

Is there an annual ChatGPT plan? Only for Business and Enterprise; Go, Plus and Pro are billed monthly, per OpenAI’s pricing FAQ (Oct 27, 2026).

Which ChatGPT plan is best for business? ChatGPT Business, at $25 per user per month or $20 billed annually, starting at 2 users.

Does ChatGPT Go include Codex? Yes, but limited: GPT-6 Luna in the desktop app, subject to rollout, with no Codex Cloud.

Is there a ChatGPT student plan? None published on chatgpt.com/pricing; verified US and Canadian university students can claim $100 in Codex credits instead.

ChatGPT plans vs Claude plans? Both put their main paid tier at $20 a month; see ChatGPT vs Claude for the full matchup.

Sources

1. ChatGPT pricing (plan cards, comparison grid, Free limits wording, Go ads, billing FAQ, Business 2+ users, education and nonprofit FAQ): https://chatgpt.com/pricing (verified 2026-10-27)
2. OpenAI, Codex pricing (Free $0, Go $8, Plus $20, Pro $100/$200/$500, Business $25/$20; Plus surfaces; Pro no five-hour limit): https://developers.openai.com/codex/pricing (prices verified 2026-10-25; plan wording verified 2026-10-26)
3. OpenAI Help, What is ChatGPT Plus? (no annual billing): https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6950777-what-is-chatgpt-plus (verified 2026-10-25)
4. OpenAI Help, About ChatGPT Pro plans (monthly only, tier usage): https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-plans (verified 2026-10-21)
5. OpenAI Help, Using Codex with your ChatGPT plan (Codex on Free and Go, no Codex Cloud): https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11369540-using-codex-with-your-chatgpt-plan (verified 2026-10-26)
6. OpenAI, Codex for students ($100 in credits, US and Canada): https://developers.openai.com/community/students (verified 2026-10-21)