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OpenAI Launches $8 ChatGPT Go Globally, Plans Ads for Free and Go Tiers

OpenAI frames the lower-cost plan and upcoming ads as a way to help finance its push toward AGI.

Overview

  • ChatGPT Go is now available worldwide at $8 per month, targeting heavier use of the GPT‑5.2 Instant model with more messages, file uploads and image generation than the free tier.
  • OpenAI will begin showing clearly labeled ad modules in the free and Go tiers in the coming weeks to support its AGI efforts.
  • Ads will not influence ChatGPT’s answers and will be blocked in sensitive contexts such as health, mental health and politics, with user conversations not sold to advertisers.
  • All higher paid plans, including Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise, will continue to be ad‑free.
  • OpenAI published current limits for other tiers—free: 10 GPT‑5.2 messages per five hours with fallback; Plus: 160 per three hours; non‑inference context windows of 16K (free) and 32K (Plus), and 196K for inference—while Go’s exact caps remain undisclosed.