OpenAI is expanding a low-cost subscription tier called ChatGPT Go to the US and the rest of the world. Go was released in India in August and later became available in another 170 countries prior to Fridayâs global release. âIn markets where Go has been available, weâve seen strong adoption and regular everyday use for tasks like writing, learning, image creation, and problem-solving,â the companyâs announcement stated.
For $8 per month, Go subscribers get more messages, file uploads, and image generation than the free ChatGPT tier subscribers. The price slots Go between the free version of the AI chatbot and the $20-a-month âPlusâ subscription tier.
OpenAI says the Go tier is meant for people who want greater access to the companyâs fast version of the latest AI model, GPT-5.2 Instant. Currently, free users are limited to 10 messages with GPTâ5.2 every five hours â after that, and the chats switch to the âmini versionâ of the model. Plus subscribers get 160 messages with GPTâ5.2 for every three hours. Given that the announcement says that users will get â10xâ the messages, files, and images than the free tier, we can guess that Go will get 100 messages with GPT-5.2 for who-knows-how-many hours.
The announcement did not specify the number of file uploads or images available each day to Go users. OpenAI does not provide the number of file uploads or images for any of their ChatGPT tiers: free users have a âlimitedâ number of file uploads and image generations, according to the pricing website, while Plus subscribers have a âcheck-markâ listed instead of an amount.
The memory and context window will be greater for Go users than free users. Again, exact numbers are yet not known. The current context window for non-reasoning requests is 16K for free users and 32K for Plus, while both tiers have a 196K context window for reasoning.
OpenAI says it will âsoonâ begin running ads in Go in the US, while Plus and higher priced subscriptions will remain ad-free.
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