L'article ci-dessous est publié en anglais. Chaque chiffre qu'il contient est le chiffre publié par l'éditeur lui-même, avec la date à laquelle nous l'avons lu.
OpenAI's assistant, and the default most teams compare everything else against. That position is worth naming before any price is, because it changes what you are deciding: not whether this tool is good, but whether something else is enough better to be worth the switch.
The price is on the page now, in the local currency
The ChatGPT pricing page renders the four consumer cards directly, each with a monthly figure. The catch is that the figure is decided by the country you read from: it printed Go at 132,000 Vietnamese dong a month and Plus at 522,500 when this profile was checked, and it would print different numbers in other markets. The US reference figures live on OpenAI's own documents, Go at $8 and Plus at $20, with the launch post noting that Go pricing is localized in some markets.
That localization is why the figure at the top of this profile carries the country with it. Compare it against a flat worldwide seat price and you are comparing two different kinds of thing, which is exactly the trap our entry-price ranking is built to name.
The free tier is the one to read with the sentence printed beside it. OpenAI's word under its own usage heading is unlimited, applied to everyday text chats, and the line under that heading adds that usage remains subject to abuse-prevention safeguards. Both are the vendor's, one line apart, and taking the first without the second would hand you a promise the page does not make.
The same article settles the annual question in one sentence: OpenAI says it does not support annual billing, or paying for several months in advance, on Go, Plus or Pro. Where a competitor prints a lower rate for paying a year up front, here there is no second number to convert. The full consumer structure, including the two Pro tiers and the paused $200 sign-ups, is covered in the ChatGPT review.
Claude and Gemini are the comparisons most readers arrive wanting, and the category hub holds all three. If the first paid month is the question, see where ChatGPT sits in our entry-price ranking beside Gemini and Claude.