ChatGPT
FreeThe world's most-used AI chat
About ChatGPT
The tool that made AI assistants mainstream — and still the most broadly capable for everyday use. Best-in-class for general knowledge, coding, content drafting, data analysis, and image generation via DALL·E 3. Four years of model improvement and a vast plugin and GPT ecosystem give it a feature lead that's hard to catch up to.
Pricing plans
- GPT-4o (limited)
- Web browsing, image gen
- GPT-4o unlimited
- Advanced data analysis
- Priority access
- Team workspace
- Admin controls
- Higher limits
- Custom fine-tuning
- SSO
- Advanced security
How ChatGPT compares
| Directr tier | S | S | S | S |
| Price | Free / $20/mo Plus | Free / $20/mo Pro | Free / API from $0.028/1M tokens | Free / $19.99/mo Advanced |
| Free tier | Free | Free | Free | Free |
| API access | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Alternatives to ChatGPT
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Google's AI assistant with native integration across the apps most people already use every day — Docs, Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and Meet. Strong at research, coding, and multimodal reasoning, and the natural choice for anyone whose work lives inside Google Workspace. Powers the AI layer across Google's entire product ecosystem.