OpenAI reworks ChatGPT plan pricing, ends bulk discounts

I wonder if they are going to launch bots. That’d be insane. Total surprise.

DevDay is today 👀 @danshipper and @RandyCounsman are there to vibe check the launches, tools, and of course—the food.

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You can now use your ChatGPT subscription directly in over 60 partners products. No little rules, you can just use all your included usage right there. This includes things such as Devin, OpenCode, Lovable, and many more. Sign in with ChatGPT and go.

We are opening up our platform and you can now build full native apps with plugin extensions, and ship them right in ChatGPT. We have over 1.2B weekly users and will surface relevant plugins right in the conversations.

Dev Day announcement overview, as short as reasonably possible. - Dots: personal assistant (similar to GrokBot, Muse etc) - $500/month plan including Ultrafast - GPT-6.1 Sol: really smart and cheap, way better than 6 was - Decisions API: Jev killer with vision capabilities - ultrafast is real (300tps on Astra). It’s way expensive though. - sign in with ChatGPT: use your sub and inference in 3rd party apps - extensions in ChatGPT can now be full apps - 1 banked reset for all I think that’s most of it!

Spotted at DevDay: We’re an official OpenAI B2B Marketplace launch partner, coming soon

When I made this video, there were no benchmarks yet, so I had to run them myself. Jaw dropped when I saw the Terminal Bench 4 scores. Performance better than Opus 5.5 for ~1/30th of the price 🤯

Factory is a launch partner for the OpenAI B2B Marketplace. Eligible @OpenAI enterprise customers can now apply part of their existing OpenAI commitment toward Factory, driving engineering efficiency and accelerating software development with autonomous AI agents.

I'll say the quiet part out loud: GPT-6.1 Sol was not meant to be this cheap. Clearly they cut the price a ton to fight back. Likely also the reason they cut the "dollar amount" for the plan limits, since they cut into their margins so hard with this model

Artificial Analysis numbers are in! GPT-6.1 Sol is performing at around Opus 5.5 Medium levels for under a third the price. Not bad at all, but still more hyped for 6.1 Astra to catch them up 👀

You can now use your ChatGPT subscription directly in over 16 partners products. No little rules, you can just use all your included usage right there. This includes things such as Devin, OpenCode, Notion, and many more. Sign in with ChatGPT and go.

chatgpt is the open ecosystem. whether users design in figma, canva, magicpath or anything else, they should be able to do it with chatgpt. to enable that, developers can now bring their projects into chatgpt using the same plugins platform we use to build features internally!

OpenAI just released Dots, their competitor to Grok Bot and Muse I've had early access for a bit, and I really like it Its biggest differentiators are that it has access to ALL your ChatGPT memories, as well as all the amazing tools in the ChatGPT harness including: • Voice mode • ChatGPT plugins • The new ChatGPT Spaces • much more Is it wildly differentiated from the other agents? No. But if you've been using ChatGPT for a while, the fact that it just knows you and all your past chats really well is massive And if you are a desktop app power user like me, being able to have your agent spin up codex threads on the go is wildly helpful If you are more in the 'normie' crowd who primarily just has your agent make restaurant reservations, probably not for you But if you use AI daily for…

Read this on thread on ChatGPT Space if you only read one thing about it.

Yessss, you can now @ ChatGPT in Slack and Microsoft Teams. Mention @ChatGPT in a channel, thread or DM to to turn a messy thread into a plan, slides, or a spreadsheet. It can bring in context from beyond the thread using approved connected sources, and teammates can add context and refine the results in the same conversation—without needing an individual ChatGPT license. Available to Business and Enterprise plans.

I'm excited about dots but even more excited about the sign in with ChatGPT feature. Letting users use their ChatGPT plan in your website or app makes a bunch of indie apps alot more viable. e.g., I have a live language learning app that I wasn't planning to launch to users due to API costs. But letting users sign in with ChatGPT makes this viable. Hope they roll out to non-enterprise folks soon.

Full recap of all the announcements

For me, the most underrated launch at DevDay: Sign in with ChatGPT. Everyone is talking about Dots. Users now pay $20 to ChatGPT, $20 to Notion, $20 to a coding tool. Same models underneath. BYOK never fixed it because normal people don't know what an API key is. Sign in with ChatGPT fixes it. Usage counts toward their ChatGPT limits. As a developer, you ship AI features with no inference bill. As a user, you pay once and control the budget per app. It's Sign in with Google/GitHub, but for compute. 1.2B weekly users. OpenAI just became the default wallet for AI apps. Big. Second, overrated launch: Dots. An always-on agent that "gets to know what matters to you" sounds great. But we have already seen Grok Bot and OpenClaw doing the same thing. Calling your agent live on the phone or…

Had a brief Q&A with @sama today. Here’s my quick paraphrase of his answers: 1. How are Dots different from other personal agents? Plenty of agents will book restaurants for you. The ambition for Dots is bigger: Expand what you can do and earn enough trust to handle complex tasks. Dots are powered by Astra. 2. When will AI deliver a breakthrough in treating cancer and other diseases? We could see something next year that helps treat one type of cancer, though the FDA timeline is difficult to predict. 3. One other answer that stuck with me: He’s strongly against young kids scrolling through short-form videos. I feel the same way.

GPT-6.1 Sol is now live in v0. Try it at

OpenAI’s @thsottiaux explains how dots work and how OpenAI has been deploying specialist dots internally: “The agent never stops. Occasionally it sleeps. But it’s always online, always doing proactive research, thinking about your goals, thinking about your preferences.” “You just give your dot a little bit of feedback. It learns.” “A couple days in, you’re like, ‘Wow, I can’t really quite imagine doing work without this thing.’” “You don’t have to be super technical but just kind of still feel the power of it.” Inside OpenAI, specialist dots are already being provisioned with their own identities, permissions, machines, and roles: “We have them running on Mac minis.” “We provision them exactly like employees. We mint a new little identity, and then it’s got this IAM and the roles.” “We…

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One more launch today: the new MCP Events spec is now supported in ChatGPT 🎉 MCP servers can now push real-time updates (messages, comments, status changes, whatever) to ChatGPT, triggering automations for your users 🤯 It’s easy to add to your MCP server, too! Just point Codex at the docs and let it rip:

we found opus 5.5 to be 2X as efficient as gpt-6-sol in our internal evals so i was not expecting 6.1-sol to improve on that much but to see it 3X the efficiency of opus 5.5 and 2.5X against even sonnet 5.5 is actually 🤯 this is an insane point release

OpenAI launched Dots at DevDay. My thoughts. First, the good. Always-on is really really really what the market needed. It's why I find myself reaching for Instinct so often. I don’t have to think about WiFi or my computer being open or Mac mini being on. Second, every Dot gets its own dedicated VM. Clearly a big compute commit, and it's the same directional bet Meta made with Muse. Will gladly take a persistent dedicated environment over a just-in-time spin-up (persistence is what makes an agent feel more like a teammate). Which unlocks the overarching use case: AI as an ambient watchdog. "Watch my Slacks and tell me to step in if two teams are duplicating work" or "watch my spend and apply for a better credit card” or “keep an eye on my calendar and handle all gift ordering” or “watch…

We will have a few million dots online within days, working on all sorts of things across such a diverse and large community. Excited to learn from all of you on what you love and what doesn’t yet feel magical. Personally I felt a jump after 2-3 days of use after teaching it more about my preferences and things on my mind. It learns very quickly to be most useful and it can take on surprisingly ambitious tasks on its own. We’re learning from how you all use your primary dot before releasing the ability to create an entire team of them.

applied to get Sign in with ChatGPT working for Executor 🫡 this combined with v2 will lead to some super cool apps, like classification inside of codemode, being able to add inference to triggers, etc excited to get it live for everyone

OpenAI's new price sheet has no bulk discount. The $20 plan buys 1x Codex usage, the $100 plan 5x, the $200 plan 10x and the $500 plan 25x, which comes to exactly $20 a unit on every rung. Until this week the $200 plan bought 20x. That was $10 a unit, half the price of every other rung. A $500 plan cannot sit above a $10-a-unit plan. At the old prices it would have been the worst deal on the sheet, since two $200 plans bought 40x for $400 and the $500 plan buys 25x. Both changes arrived within a day of each other. Point (c) in the post above says OpenAI wants subscriptions and pay-as-you-go to converge until most people can just buy usage as needed. A plan that costs the same per unit at every size is a meter with a monthly invoice. The heavy user, who used to get the best rate on the…

The domain transferred to xAI in July. OpenAI didn't announce Dots until this morning. Someone had a two month head start on the punchline. Domain transfers are public record, and so are trademark filings. Companies quietly lock down their launch domains before the keynote, which means anyone watching Whois or the USPTO database can sometimes read a product name months before it hits the stage. Either the July transfer is a wild coincidence, or somebody at xAI read the signals early and bought a joke with a 60 day fuse. The innocent explanation doesn't survive a Whois check. If xAI grabbed to catch people mistyping they'd own They don't. is sitting on the open market right now. And the exact match for OpenAI's product name, still belongs to a company that went under years ago. Nobody in…