OpenAI has launched the 12 Days of OpenAI livestream series with the announcement of a new, more expensive tier for its flagship chatbot. Starting today, ChatGPT users can pay $200 per month for ChatGPT Pro. The package includes unlimited access to the company’s latest model, the o1, which, after a limited preview earlier this year, is faster and 34% less prone to serious errors when answering complex real-world questions.
ChatGPT Pro also comes with access to GPT-4o, o1-mini, and the company’s advanced voice mode, but most power users will likely fork out for the optional o1 “pro mode,” which gives the chatbot extra processing power to tackle the most complex problems. “According to external testers, the o1 pro mode provides more reliably accurate and comprehensive answers, especially in areas such as data science, programming, and case law analysis,” OpenAI says of this feature.
Going forward, OpenAI promises to add even more “powerful, computationally intensive productivity features” to ChatGPT Pro, with some of these enhancements coming later this week and next week as the company continues to showcase what it has been working on over the past 11 months. More broadly, ChatGPT users can expect to see support for web browsing and file uploads in the future, although during the livestream, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman did not say exactly when these features would be coming.
For other users, OpenAI will continue to offer its existing ChatGPT Pro subscription, which will continue to cost $20 per month and include early access to new features.
