ChatGPT pricing in 2026 starts at €0 a month for individual users, depending on the plan you choose. OpenAI offers four personal plans: Free (€0), Go (€8), Plus (€23) and Pro, which starts at €103 a month and comes in three usage tiers. The €103 tier fills the gap between Plus and the more expensive Pro tiers.
There are also business options: Business (from €21 per user per month) and Enterprise (custom pricing). The table below shows at a glance what each ChatGPT plan costs.
Further down, you will find for each plan which features you get and what kind of work it suits. All amounts are the prices OpenAI shows on its Dutch pricing page. For Free, Go, Plus and Pro they include VAT; for Business, OpenAI does not say whether VAT is added.
| Plan | Price per month | Who it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Free | €0 | Casual use and getting started |
| Go | €8 | Beyond the free limits, no pro features needed |
| Plus | €23 | The standard for professionals |
| Pro (5x) | €103 | Plus consistently too limited, intensive workflows |
| Pro (20x) | €229 | Power users and daily parallel work |
| Pro 500 | $500 (OpenAI shows this amount in dollars) | Highest usage limit, the only one with Ultrafast |
| Business | from €21 per user; Premium from €105 per user | Teams from 2 users, data privacy |
| Enterprise | Custom | Large-scale rollout and compliance |
Is ChatGPT free? What you get on the Free plan
ChatGPT Free costs €0. Since 8 October 2026, its standard chat has run on GPT-6 Luna, with unlimited text conversations but limits on files, image generation and other tools. You can chat, keep your conversation history and generate simple images. For a first look at ChatGPT, that is enough.
What you miss out on is generous access to deep research and to Codex for development. According to OpenAI’s pricing page, Codex and ChatGPT Work, the agent for longer tasks, are only available in limited form on Free, and Work only in the desktop app. OpenAI says everyday text conversations are unlimited, with safeguards against abuse, but separate limits apply to uploads, image generation, voice and data analysis.
In the United States, OpenAI has shown ads below answers in the free version since February 2026. Since late August 2026, it has done the same in the Netherlands and thirty other European countries, but only in Free and Go; Plus, Pro and Enterprise remain ad-free.
A practical test: for one week, keep track of how often you see the “limit reached” message. Fewer than three times means the free plan fits how you actually use it.
If you see that message every day, an upgrade is worth it.
How much does ChatGPT Go cost?
ChatGPT Go costs €8 a month and launched worldwide in January 2026, after an earlier trial period in India. Go gives you higher message limits, more file uploads, more image generation and a longer memory window than Free. Like Free, Go’s standard chat has run on GPT-6 Luna since 8 October 2026; the heavier models are not available on Go.
The downside: Go also shows ads, including in the Netherlands. It has no advanced features such as deep research, OpenAI’s pricing page lists Codex as limited, and ChatGPT Work is not included either. In effect, what you get for the price is a more generous free version, not a professional toolkit.
For work, Plus is the better choice in almost every case, at €15 a month more. Go mainly makes sense if you use ChatGPT at home for more than casual chats but do not need the Plus features.
How much does ChatGPT Plus cost in 2026?
According to OpenAI’s Dutch pricing page, ChatGPT Plus costs €23 a month in 2026. It is the most popular paid plan and the standard for professionals.
Since 7 October 2026, the standard chat on Plus has run on GPT-6 Sol by default, and the effort setting lets you decide how much computing time the model spends on a question. GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s new flagship, was first released to a limited group of organisations on 3 September 2026; on Plus you can use it with a limited allowance in ChatGPT Work and Codex.
Deep research and Codex are included, as are projects and ChatGPT Work for longer tasks. Custom GPTs will be phased out on 11 December 2026. Through the API, the context window goes up to more than 1 million tokens; in the regular interface, Plus gives you 54,000 tokens in Instant mode and 256,000 tokens in the reasoning modes.
Want to understand how ChatGPT works and why Thinking mode produces different output from the standard mode? Then it helps to know the difference between fast models and reasoning models, because that determines which model to use when.
For most professionals who use ChatGPT regularly for work, Plus offers the best balance between price and features. Paying for Plus is one thing; working with it professionally is another. In the complete ChatGPT Course for professionals, you build a way of working that puts the Plus features to use on the work where they deliver the most.
How much does ChatGPT Pro cost?
ChatGPT Pro starts at €103 a month and has three usage tiers. The two tiers introduced in April 2026 cost €103 and €229 a month and give access to the same features, including the heaviest model variants at the highest reasoning setting. Pro, Business and Enterprise users also get access to GPT-6 Pro, the reasoning model that runs on GPT-6 Astra. The difference lies in the usage limits. Since 29 September 2026, there has also been a third, more expensive tier: Pro 500. It has the highest usage limit of the Pro plans and is the only Pro plan with access to Ultrafast.
The €103 tier offers five times the capacity of Plus. Since 29 October 2026, this tier has included twice the previous Work and Codex allowance. It is aimed at users who find Plus too limited but cannot justify the step up to €229.
The €229 tier offers twenty times the capacity of Plus. On 29 October 2026, OpenAI dropped a previously announced lower usage limit for new subscribers, and anyone already on that lower limit now gets twice as much. The plan is aimed at power users who work in ChatGPT for several hours a day and run several projects in parallel. Think of developers maintaining complex codebases, or researchers and consultants who use ChatGPT as their main work tool.
OpenAI explicitly positions the €103 tier as its answer to Anthropic’s Claude Max, which sits in the same price range. For most professionals, though, Plus remains the logical choice. The jump to a Pro plan only pays off if you keep running into the Plus limits.
Heavier features also play a part in that decision: ChatGPT’s agent feature uses more of your allowance per task than an ordinary question.
ChatGPT pricing for teams and businesses
ChatGPT Business (formerly Team) costs €26 per user per month, or €21 per user with annual billing, and is available for between two and 200 users per subscription. Alongside these Standard seats there is Business Premium, with five times the usage of Standard for €130 per user per month, or €105 with annual billing. OpenAI does not say whether VAT is added to the Business prices. You get a shared workspace, access to the GPT-6 family, basic admin tools, integrations with business tools such as Slack, Google Drive, SharePoint and similar services, and a commitment that your data is not used to train models by default.
ChatGPT Enterprise is the option for large-scale rollouts and is priced individually, based on team size and usage volume. You get virtually unlimited messages on the base models (with a token contract, that usage is billed), extensive security controls, single sign-on, data privacy commitments, analytics dashboards and dedicated support. At launch, GPT-6 Astra is switched off by default in Enterprise and has to be enabled by an administrator. For organisations with strict compliance requirements (such as financial institutions and healthcare providers), Enterprise is often the only option that meets them.
Before you choose a business plan, decide what you want to do with ChatGPT and which features your team will actually use. Business without clear agreements on how your team uses it delivers little. Enterprise without an adoption strategy is an expensive licence with no results.
Find the ChatGPT plan that fits you
Choose who it is for and how you use ChatGPT. You will see the plan and what it costs per month and per year.
Which ChatGPT plan suits your work?
Which ChatGPT plan suits your work depends on three things: how often you use ChatGPT, which features you need and whether you work with sensitive data.
Go (€8 a month) suits people who go beyond the free limits but do not need deep research or professional tools: moderate, non-technical use.
Plus (€23 a month) is the default choice for professionals who use ChatGPT regularly for writing, analysis or research. For most professionals, this is the right plan.
Pro (€103) becomes an option if Plus is consistently too limited for longer Codex sessions or heavy workflows. Pro (€229) only makes sense for intensive daily use across several projects in parallel. Pro 500 ($500 a month, shown by OpenAI in dollars) has had the highest usage limit since 29 September 2026 and is the only Pro plan with Ultrafast.
You need Business or Enterprise as soon as data privacy, central administration, SSO or compliance are hard requirements. On a personal plan, your data is used for model training by default unless you switch on the opt-out. With Business and Enterprise, it is the other way round.
Are you also considering other AI tools alongside ChatGPT? Models such as Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini offer similar features with different pricing models and different strengths; what Gemini costs, for example, depends on the Google AI plan you choose. It pays to compare which model best fits the kind of work you do.
If you came here looking for the ChatGPT Plus price in 2026, you now know it is €23 a month and that Plus remains the most suitable plan for most professionals. Whichever plan you choose, the price says nothing about how well you use it. If you hardly use a paid plan, you can cancel your ChatGPT subscription; your access continues until the end of the billing period.
In the ChatGPT Course, you learn a way of working with checkpoints, so you can put the features of Plus or Pro to use on the tasks where they deliver the most. Certificate included.
When comparing plans, also consider how often you use ChatGPT’s voice mode, because spoken conversations hit the limits faster than typed questions.
Frequently asked questions about ChatGPT pricing
What ChatGPT costs you also depends on how you use your plan and who you share it with.
Is API usage included in a ChatGPT subscription?
No, use of the OpenAI API is not included in a ChatGPT subscription as standard. Since 28 October 2026, eligible Pro and Business subscribers can activate promotional API credit, up to €510 a month according to the Dutch pricing page, separate from their ChatGPT credits. According to OpenAI’s Help Center, a Plus subscription only covers the use of ChatGPT itself. The API is billed separately through OpenAI’s developer platform, with prices per million tokens that OpenAI shows in dollars.
Can you share a ChatGPT subscription with someone else?
No, you may not share a ChatGPT subscription with someone else. OpenAI’s terms of use for the EU state that you may not share your login details or make your account available to others, and that you are responsible for all activity under your account. If you want to use ChatGPT with colleagues, Business is designed for teams of two or more users.
