ChatGPT may get cheaper ‘Professional Lite’ tier
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In abstract:
- PCWorld reviews that OpenAI might introduce a ‘ChatGPT Professional Lite’ subscription tier priced at $100 month-to-month, positioned between the present $20 Plus and $200 Professional plans.
- Code references found by builders in ChatGPT’s internet software recommend this mid-tier possibility might goal customers exceeding Plus limits with out requiring full Professional options.
- This potential new tier would offer extra subscription flexibility for ChatGPT customers in search of enhanced capabilities at a average value level.
If ChatGPT’s $20-a-month Plus plan is cramping your fashion however the $200-a-month Professional plan seems like overkill, there’s rising proof of a less expensive ChatGPT Professional tier that might cut up the distinction.
An AI developer poking round ChatGPT’s internet app code lately discovered a “checkout web page” string that references a “ChatGPT Professional Lite” plan, with the worth pegged at $100 a month. The checkout string has but to be activated.
The plan description on a subsequent checkout web page merely particulars the present ChatGPT Professional plan however is “doubtless nonetheless a piece in progress,” developer Tibor Blaho famous on X.
Checking the ChatGPT internet app code for myself on Monday, I too discovered a number of references to “PROLITE” and “chatgptprolite” on ChatGPT’s plan pricing web page.
Blaho, a lead engineer for immediate administration instrument AIPRM, had beforehand discovered hidden code suggesting that adverts had been coming to ChatGPT, which turned out to be true.
I’ve reached out to ChatGPT guardian OpenAI for remark.
OpenAI at present provides 4 private ChatGPT tiers, together with a $20-a-month Plus plan and ChatGPT Professional for a a lot pricier $200 a month. There’s additionally the recently-launched $8-a-month Go plan and a free tier, each of which can serve adverts together with ChatGPT’s responses.
ChatGPT Plus usually offers common customers enought headroom for on a regular basis duties and chats, together with picture and video era, reminiscence of previous conversations, and the power to create customized GPTs.
However extra bold customers and Codex-using vibe coders might shortly discover themselves hitting ChatGPT’s utilization limits. For them, the one possibility is a large bounce to the far pricier ChatGPT Professional tier.
A $100 ChatGPT Lite would provide some much-needed center floor between the $20-a-month ChatGPT Plus plan and the $200/month ChatGPT Professional tier.
Gemini customers are in an analogous boat with Google’s AI plans, with a large gulf between Google AI Professional for $20 a month and Google AI Extremely for a whopping $250 a month. Google additionally provides a paired-back AI Plus plan for $8/month and a free tier, comparable for ChatGPT’s cheaper choices.
In distinction, Anthropic’s Claude does boast a center floor for its pricier plans, with Claude Max providing a Max 5x tier (with roughly 5 instances the bounds of the $20-a-month Claude Professional plan) for $100 a month, whereas a Max x20 plan goes for $200 a month.
