ChatGPT is best for freelancers, consultants and small teams. Its clearest advantage: Strong free plan.
- Avoid if
- organizations requiring on-premise deployment
- Cheapest useful plan
- €8.00/mo · Go
- Free plan
- Yes
- Setup effort
- easy: minutes
- Main limitation
- Free tier usage caps
- Strong free plan
- Very broad model capability
- Large third-party ecosystem
- organizations requiring on-premise deployment
- teams needing strict data-residency guarantees
What it actually does
General-purpose assistant with voice and image input, dots that keep working on a task between conversations (Pro plan, rolling out), ChatGPT Space for shared files and Pages, Work tasks that continue across desktop, web and mobile, plugins, plus ChatGPT inside Slack and Teams.
Before you pay
Which plan, for whom
The free plan covers occasional questions and drafts, with usage caps. Go is the cheapest paid plan and lifts those caps for daily use without the strongest models. Plus is the usual choice for daily professional work. Pro, offered at three usage levels, is for people who run long tasks all day; the dots that keep working between conversations are on Pro and still rolling out. On 3 November 2026, from France: Go 8 € a month, Plus 23 € a month, Pro from 103 € a month.
What a year costs
There is no annual plan: OpenAI bills Go, Plus and Pro monthly only, so a year costs twelve monthly payments, with no discount for committing: 96 € for Go, 276 € for Plus. Our dated reads of the price are in this page's price history.
What we would check before paying
Answers on niche or recent topics can be confidently wrong, so check anything you will send a client. There is no brand-voice setting, so a marketing team publishing under one voice may need a dedicated tool. If your team works in Slack or Teams, ChatGPT can be used inside both.
What changed recently
Week of 12 October: your dot (the assistant that keeps working between conversations) can be opened from iOS Home Screen widgets and Apple Shortcuts, for accounts with dot access. Source ↗
Week of 5 October: dots can be created and set up from the ChatGPT mobile app. Source ↗
Read on each vendor's official changelog, not tested by us.
The limits to know
- Free tier usage caps
- Can produce confidently wrong answers on niche topics
- No native brand-voice control
Pricing & billing commitment
- Rate on record
- €8.00/mo · Go
- What that figure is
- Month-to-month rate per account, read on the vendor's monthly view.
- Commitment
- None: payable one month at a time
- The vendor's exact condition
- Monthly billing only: OpenAI offers no annual billing for Go, Plus or Pro
The pricing page, as read
In practice
- Platforms
- Web, iOS, Android, API
- Integrations
- API, GPT Store, Third-party apps
- Setup
- easy: minutes
ChatGPT in our comparisons
Alternatives to ChatGPT
Compare side by side:ChatGPT / ClaudeChatGPT / Microsoft 365 CopilotChatGPT / Gemini
Frequently asked questions
What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a tool from OpenAI, used mainly for content writing, research, brainstorming. Main features: general-purpose assistant with voice and image input, dots that keep working on a task between conversations (Pro plan, rolling out), ChatGPT Space for shared files and Pages. It has a permanent free plan; the paid entry point is €8.00/mo · Go.
How much does ChatGPT cost?
The paid entry point is €8.00/mo · Go. Month-to-month rate per account, read on the vendor's monthly view. The exact condition attached to that figure: Monthly billing only: OpenAI offers no annual billing for Go, Plus or Pro. Read on the official pricing page on 03.11.2026. Prices move quickly: confirm before subscribing.
Does ChatGPT have a free plan?
Yes. ChatGPT publishes a permanent free plan. Check this before settling on it: free tier usage caps.
What devices and tools does ChatGPT work with?
According to the vendor's documentation, ChatGPT runs on: Web, iOS, Android, API. Documented integrations: API, GPT Store, Third-party apps. Listed from the official sources, not tested by us: check your own setup on the free plan.
How we checked this record
The evidence record
- Evidence level
- Vendor documented: Official documentation and pricing page reviewed and dated. No independent verification, no hands-on test recorded.
- Affiliate status
- No affiliate link on this record, no commission.
Hands-on test
No automated hands-on test has been completed for this review cycle. This record rests on the vendor's official documentation and pricing page, re-read and dated. We say so rather than imply otherwise.
The research record
The headline now follows Go, the cheapest paid plan this record names; our earlier readings followed Plus (23 €, unchanged the same day). Not a price drop.
Read on the vendor's monthly view, from France; screenshot kept
Read on the vendor's monthly view, from France
Read on the vendor's monthly view
Sources
The official pages this record rests on. No tracking links here: these addresses name the vendor.
Evidence freshness
Each kind of check has its own clock and its own threshold. A price ages in weeks and a feature list in months; sharing one date between them would let an old review pass for a recent check.
| Check | When | State |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Checked 9 days ago | Fresh |
| Features | Checked 18 days ago | Fresh |
| Privacy & data | Never checked | Not independently checked |
| Hands-on test | Never checked | Not independently checked |
| Page review | Checked 17 days ago | Fresh |
What remains unverified
- No workflow was run inside the product. Everything here comes from the vendor's documentation and public pages.
- Data handling and the privacy policy were not independently verified during this research cycle. We therefore publish no conclusion about security or where data is stored.
- Export terms and the real cost of leaving are not on this record: we have not tested them.