OpenAI Releases First $20 Subscription Version of ChatGPT AI Tool

AI startup unicorn OpenAI is ready to make money with its popular AI chatbot, which was released in November.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT’s first subscription plan, making popular AI models available for premium use just two months after general availability.

The new plan, dubbed ChatGPT Plus, was announced in a company blog post on Wednesday and will charge subscribers a $20 monthly fee for using ChatGPT’s tools. Users will get priority access to her ChatGPT during “peak hours,” resulting in faster responses and “priority access to new features and improvements,” the company wrote. The subscription will initially be available only in the US and will roll out to waitlists first.

OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding this announcement. The company also noted in the post that a waitlist for the upcoming ChatGPT API is now available.

The move comes just weeks after OpenAI president and chairman Greg Brockman posted on the company’s official Discord server asking users for their input on how to “monetize ChatGPT.” Some users (including this author) reported seeing a $42/month pro tier offer in January. This promised early and priority access to new features and improved reliability in the event of repeated service outages due to high demand over the past few weeks. Hit capacity again.

After OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late November, more than 1 million users swept the tool’s site within five days, OpenAI said. Since then, product releases and other announcements have trickled down from the San Francisco-based company headed by CEO Sam Altman. In mid-January, the company announced a multi-year, multi-billion dollar partnership with Microsoft that reportedly reached a $10 billion commitment at a $29 billion valuation. announced a number of current and planned product integrations of AI tools that experts see pose short-term challenges to Google’s popularity in products such as

Earlier this week, OpenAI announced another product development. It’s a “classifier” that can distinguish between text written by a human and text generated by his AI. The company said the tool is very much a work in progress: it’s unreliable on texts under 1,000 characters, and only 26% of them were able to correctly identify AI text in its own tests. The request for cooperation came from the New York City school principal telling the press that the school system had now enabled the use of ChatGPT in the classroom in early January. It was done when he said he was considering rolling back the ban on .