ChatGPT Pro: 200 dollars for a subscription

OpenAI has announced twelve days of new launches. To kick off these "Shipmas", the AI provider is putting a new, more expensive subscription on display this Thursday: ChatGPT Pro costs 200 US dollars per month, plus tax. This is ten times the price of the ChatGPT Plus subscription, which is still on offer. Customers who dig deeper into their pockets can make unlimited use of OpenAI o1, which the company is promoting as its most successful AI model to date.

Pro subscribers also have unlimited use of the voice mode called Advanced Voice, the slimmer AI model o1-mini and the significantly faster GPT-4o. They also have the option of ordering longer computing with o1. This "o1 pro mode" is intended to make the output of artificial intelligence more reliable and be useful for particularly complex tasks. Naturally, this takes more time.

Pro subscription to offer more soon

This is why there is a progress bar in the application in o1 pro mode. Users can also start other conversations with OpenAI models during the waiting time and receive a notification in the application when o1 pro has completed its task. OpenAI also promises Pro subscribers new "more powerful, compute-intensive" service features for higher productivity, without going into detail.

The new, more expensive subscription has not yet been announced for the freely available ChatGPT 4o mini. It thinks ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Pro are interchangeable terms for the same offering. In fact, one costs 20 dollars a month, the other 200.

Advanced Voice is ChatGPT's advanced voice mode that enables natural voice communication with the AI chatbot in real time. The system attempts to recognize users' emotions, understand non-verbal cues and respond to them. Google's Gemini has a similar voice service. "So, what I can already say: Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant – you can all retire," summarized c't colleague Jan-Keno Janssen when he tested both services in October:

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