ChatGPT Plus is $20/month and remains the default paid AI subscription: GPT-5.6 Sol (20 msgs/week), 100 GPT-5 thinking messages/week, unlimited GPT-5.4 nano, Sora video, custom GPTs and 10 Deep Research runs a month.
Worth it for most people who use ChatGPT daily — the Sol allowance, Sora access and Deep Research cover the vast majority of real workloads at the standard $20 price point. If you only chat casually, the $8 Go tier or the free tier is enough. If you hit the Sol weekly cap constantly, that's the signal for Pro.
Step down: ChatGPT Go at $8/mo. Step up: ChatGPT Pro at $100–200/mo.
ChatGPT Plus costs $20/month. Billing is monthly with no long-term commitment.
ChatGPT Plus includes: GPT-5.6 Sol — one model with a reasoning-effort slider (Instant & Thinking merged Aug 6, 2026); Unlimited text chats (no weekly caps since Aug 6, 2026); Unlimited GPT-5.4 nano; 10 Deep Research / mo; Custom GPTs, Codex; Terra/Luna in Work & Codex only.
Worth it for most people who use ChatGPT daily — the Sol allowance, Sora access and Deep Research cover the vast majority of real workloads at the standard $20 price point. If you only chat casually, the $8 Go tier or the free tier is enough. If you hit the Sol weekly cap constantly, that's the signal for Pro.
Yes — ChatGPT Go at $8/month is the tier below, and ChatGPT's free tier covers casual use.
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