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ChatGPT price, plans and limits (November 2026)

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Read 3 Nov 2026 20:00 UTC

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Is ChatGPT working right now?

Operationalread 3 Nov 2026 20:00 UTC

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How much does ChatGPT Plus cost?

ChatGPT Plus costs $20.00 a month, read from learn.chatgpt.com/docs/pricing on 2 Nov 2026. OpenAI's published list prices for ChatGPT are below, with each limit in the vendor's own wording. A cell reading "Not published" means OpenAI prints no figure for it, which is a fact worth as much as a number.

The words in this table

Token: The unit AI companies meter and bill in. A token is a chunk of text, roughly three quarters of a word in ordinary English, so a thousand word document is about thirteen hundred tokens. Each vendor counts with its own tokenizer, so the same sentence can come to a slightly different number of tokens at one vendor than at another. Full guide
Context window: How much text a model can hold in view at one time, counted in tokens. It covers the whole exchange: what you send, any files you attach, and the answer being written. It is not the length of one message, and a vendor may allow less of it inside some features than the headline figure suggests.
Rate limit: A cap on how much you may use in a window of time: messages per few hours on a consumer plan, or requests and tokens per minute on an API. Reaching one is not an outage. The service is working and is asking you to wait.

ChatGPT plans, prices and published limits
Plan	Monthly	Yearly per month	Context	Models
Freeindividual	$0.00	Not published	Not published	Not published
OpenAI publishes no limits for this plan. Read from OpenAI's ChatGPT/Codex docs pricing page (learn.chatgpt.com), the only official OpenAI page that served its content to our fetcher on 2026-09-05; openai.com/chatgpt/pricing and help.openai.com returned HTTP 403. That page lists no per-model limits for the Free plan and does not name its models, so those fields are empty rather than guessed.
Goindividual	$8.00	Not published	Not published	Not published
OpenAI publishes no limits for this plan. Source page publishes the price but no per-model limit row for Go and does not name its models. help.openai.com article 11989085 (What is ChatGPT Go) could not be fetched (HTTP 403).
Plusindividual	$20.00	Not published	Not published	GPT-6 Astra, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 mini
Limits published for Plus GPT-6 Astra local messages 5-45per five-hour periodRange as printed; OpenAI says it varies by message size GPT-5.6 Sol local messages 10-100per five-hour period GPT-5.6 Terra local messages 25-200per five-hour period GPT-5.6 Luna local messages 250-2,000per five-hour period GPT-5.5 local messages 15-80per five-hour period GPT-5.4 local messages 20-100per five-hour period GPT-5.4 mini local messages 60-350per five-hour period Weekly limits may also applyper week"Local messages and cloud chats share your plan's usage allowance." Limits are the "local messages per five-hour period" table on OpenAI's Codex pricing page; they describe Codex usage drawn from the ChatGPT plan allowance, not general chat message caps. Models listed are the model rows of that table, which is the only official per-plan model list our fetcher could read.
Businessteam	$25.00	$20.00	Not published	GPT-6 Astra, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 mini
Limits published for Business GPT-6 Astra local messages 5-45per five-hour periodColumn "Standard Business"; same figures as Plus GPT-5.6 Sol local messages 10-100per five-hour period GPT-5.6 Terra local messages 25-200per five-hour period GPT-5.6 Luna local messages 250-2,000per five-hour period GPT-5.5 local messages 15-80per five-hour period GPT-5.4 local messages 20-100per five-hour period GPT-5.4 mini local messages 60-350per five-hour period Per user. Enterprise and Edu are "Contact sales" on the same page and are therefore not listed.
Pro (5x)individual	$100.00	Not published	Not published	GPT-6 Astra, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 mini
Limits published for Pro (5x) GPT-6 Astra local messages 25-225per five-hour period GPT-5.6 Sol local messages 50-500per five-hour period GPT-5.6 Terra local messages 125-1,000per five-hour period GPT-5.6 Luna local messages 1,250-10,000per five-hour period GPT-5.5 local messages 75-400per five-hour period GPT-5.4 local messages 100-500per five-hour period GPT-5.4 mini local messages 300-1,750per five-hour period Weekly limits may also applyper week The page shows the Pro card as "From $100/month" and the limits table column "Pro 5x". See Plus notes for what "local messages" means.
Pro (20x)individual	$200.00	Not published	Not published	GPT-6 Astra, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 mini
Limits published for Pro (20x) GPT-6 Astra local messages 100-900per five-hour period GPT-5.6 Sol local messages 200-2,000per five-hour period GPT-5.6 Terra local messages 500-4,000per five-hour period GPT-5.6 Luna local messages 5,000-40,000per five-hour period GPT-5.5 local messages 300-1,600per five-hour period GPT-5.4 local messages 400-2,000per five-hour period GPT-5.4 mini local messages 1,200-7,000per five-hour period Weekly limits may also applyper week Limits table column "Pro 20x". See Plus notes for what "local messages" means.

Vendor billing wording

Free: "$0/month"
Go: "$8/month"; no annual price published for individual plans
Plus: "$20/month"; no annual price published for individual plans
Business: "$20/ user / month" billed annually, 2+ users; "$25 per user per month" billed monthly
Pro (5x): "From $100/month" (5x tier)
Pro (20x): $200/month (20x tier)

ChatGPT plans:Source: learn.chatgpt.com/docs/pricingVerified 2 Nov 2026 04:00 UTCSingle sourceHistory

US dollars a month

The ChatGPT ladder for one person, at the prices OpenAI publishes. Team and enterprise plans are in the table above but not on this chart, because they are priced per seat and would not compare.

What it means for you

Paying starts at $8.00 a month for Go and runs to $200.00 for Pro (20x).

Four of these plans carry limits OpenAI publishes and two carry none. A tier with no published allowance is a price without a promise; the tiers with stated ranges are the ones you can plan around.

What the OpenAI API costs

List prices per one million tokens, exactly as OpenAI prints them. This is what you pay to send text to the model yourself, which is a different product from the subscription above and is billed by the word rather than by the month.

The words in this price table

Token: The unit AI companies meter and bill in. A token is a chunk of text, roughly three quarters of a word in ordinary English, so a thousand word document is about thirteen hundred tokens. Each vendor counts with its own tokenizer, so the same sentence can come to a slightly different number of tokens at one vendor than at another. Full guide
Input and output tokens: Input is the text you send, output is the text the model returns. Vendors price them separately and output is always the dearer half, which is why a long answer costs more than a long question.
Cached input: A lower price some vendors charge when you send the same opening text again soon after sending it. The vendor has already processed that part and charges less to read it back. Where a vendor publishes no cached rate, our tables say Not published rather than assuming the full price.

OpenAI: API list prices per million tokens in USD
Model	Input	Output	Cached input	Context	Max output
GPT-5.6 Lunagpt-5.6-luna	$0.20	$1.20	$0.02	1.05M	128K
GPT-5.4 nanogpt-5.4-nano	$0.20	$1.25	$0.02	400K	128K
GPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini	$0.75	$4.50	$0.075	400K	128K
GPT-5.6 Terragpt-5.6-terra	$2.00	$12.00	$0.20	1.05M	128K
GPT-5.6 Solgpt-5.6-sol	$4.00	$20.00	$0.40	1.05M	128K
GPT-6 Astragpt-6-astra	$10.00	$50.00	$1.00	1.05M	128K

Notes on these rows

GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-5.4 nano, GPT-5.4 mini, GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-5.6 Sol: Standard tier. Context and max output from the model page (second source).
GPT-6 Astra: Standard tier. Context and max output are printed on the model page (second source) as "1,050,000 context window" and "128,000 max output tokens", not on the pricing table itself. Regional (data residency) endpoints carry a 10% uplift for models released on or after 5 Mar 2026.

OpenAI prices:Source: developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricingVerified 2 Nov 2026 04:00 UTCSecond sourceHistory

US dollars per 1M input tokens

Input prices only, because every vendor publishes one for every model, so the chart has no holes in it. Output costs more at most models; the table above carries both.

What it means for you

Inside one vendor the spread is the story: GPT-5.6 Luna costs $0.20 per million input tokens and GPT-6 Astra costs $10.00. Choosing the model matters more than choosing the vendor.

A million tokens is roughly three quarters of a million words of English, so a single question costs a fraction of a cent. Bills grow when the same context is sent again and again, which is what an agent or a long conversation does. That is why the cached input column is the one to read before committing to a model here.

Guides to ChatGPT

The questions people ask about ChatGPT, answered in plain English, with the numbers on this page and the sources they came from.

Do AI text detectors work, and what does their score mean?
AI text detectors can flag patterns associated with machine-written text, but their score is not proof of authorship. They can miss AI text and accuse human writers. OpenAI withdrew its own classifier for low accuracy, and published research shows paraphrasing can sharply weaken several detection methods. Use a score only as a reason to review evidence.
Checked 7 Sep 2026
How do you use ChatGPT well if you are just starting?
Start ChatGPT with one clear task, provide the needed context and state the form of the answer you want. Check important claims against the cited source, refine the request in the same chat, and begin a new chat when the subject changes. Do not paste confidential material without reviewing your account's data controls.
Checked 7 Sep 2026
How do you write a good AI prompt for ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini?
A good AI prompt names the task, supplies relevant context, states constraints and describes the output you want. Add an example when format or judgment is hard to explain. Then inspect the result and revise one weakness at a time. Clear evidence and a review step matter more than clever prompt phrases.
Checked 7 Sep 2026
How do you read an LLM leaderboard or benchmark table?
Read an LLM leaderboard by checking the task, dataset, metric, model version and test conditions before the rank. Look for uncertainty and possible training-data overlap, then ask whether the test resembles your work. A one-point lead on one benchmark is evidence about that setup, not proof that a model is best for everyone.
Checked 7 Sep 2026
What does the OpenAI status page tell you when ChatGPT is down?
The OpenAI status page tells you whether OpenAI has acknowledged a broad incident affecting ChatGPT, APIs, Codex or another listed service. It does not test your account, browser, network, region or exact feature. Match your symptom to the named component and time, then run local checks if no matching incident appears.
Checked 7 Sep 2026
What is an AI token, and how do token counts affect cost?
An AI token is a small piece of text that a model reads or writes. It can be a whole short word, part of a longer word, punctuation or a space. Token counts matter because they set how much fits in a model's context window and how much an API request costs.
Checked 7 Sep 2026
What does ChatGPT Plus actually give you over the free plan?
Plus costs $20 a month and buys three things the free plan does not clearly give you: OpenAI's newest and most capable model, published usage allowances instead of unstated ones, and enough room to lean on ChatGPT for real work rather than occasional questions.
Checked 6 Sep 2026
What is a context window and why does it change what a model can do?
A context window is the amount of text a model can hold in mind at once, measured in tokens. On the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google pages this guide reads, published windows run from 200,000 tokens up to just over a million. When a conversation outgrows the window, the model starts losing the beginning, which is why long chats drift.
Checked 6 Sep 2026

What changed at ChatGPT

Every change we have logged at ChatGPT, newest first, each with OpenAI's own page as the receipt.

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5 Sep 2026Price change

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Everything logged at OpenAI · the whole stream

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