ChatGPT Plus costs $20 per month. You're probably asking yourself: Why pay when you can use it for free? There are five main advantages, but the TL;DR is that the free tier has heavy usage limits, and the Plus tier gets you the latest features and models first.

Artificial intelligence company OpenAI now offers three ChatGPT plans. While the free plan offers basic access with limited features, there are two paid versions that come with more features. OpenAI’s recently announced ChatGPT Go costs Rs 399 per month. The affordable subscription plan has been introduced for Indian users.

Now that GPT-5 is available for free, you might be wondering whether or not ChatGPT Plus is still worth $20 per month. Here are 5 reasons why it might be.

OpenAI is seemingly launching a new ChatGPT Go subscription tier, available in select regions like India and costing around $5 a month.

The GPT-5 rollout wasn't as smooth as OpenAI had hoped it would be, so now it's giving paid users access to legacy models as well.

The head of ChatGPT at OpenAI was asked about ads on the platform, and his response was, as you'd expect, pretty coy.

A tiny fraction of users ever touch the ‘thinky’ models built for better answers. Sam Altman’s slip reveals why GPT-5’s big debut landed with a thud.