OpenAI Unveils $200 ChatGPT Pro Tier With Advanced Reasoning Models
OpenAI introduces a premium $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro subscription targeting power users with unlimited access to its latest reasoning models. The plan features an enhanced "o1 pro mode" that uses extra computing power to tackle complex math, coding, and visual tasks.
OpenAI launches a highly expensive new subscription plan called ChatGPT Pro, which costs $200 per month and targets power users who push AI models to their limits. This premium tier provides unlimited access to all of OpenAI's models, including the full version of the new o1 reasoning model designed for complex math, programming, and writing tasks.
The full o1 model represents a significant upgrade over its September preview, offering faster and more accurate reasoning capabilities that now include the ability to analyze uploaded images. OpenAI states that this updated version reduces major errors on difficult real-world questions by 34%, although it strangely performs worse than the preview on certain common machine learning benchmarks like MLE-Bench.
All paid ChatGPT users gain access to the standard o1 model, but Pro subscribers receive an exclusive feature called o1 pro mode that dedicates additional computing power to generate the best possible answers for the hardest questions. Because this advanced reasoning takes longer to process, the chatbot displays a progress bar and sends notifications to users while they wait for results.