Advances in Artificial Intelligence are practically daily and its use is becoming universal with a wide variety of tools that most users can try. One of the most popular is ChatGPT , which last month received its particular subscription system.
Under the name of ChatGPT Plus , this subscription not only serves to help with the financing costs of the project, as if it were a Kickstarter, but also provides those who make the payment with a series of exclusive benefits .
Advantages of ChatGPT Plus compared to the free version
ChatGPT Plus is a paid version of ChatGPT . The idea behind this paid version is to favor users who are using the system the most. As is evident, in exchange for your payment you can enjoy having some exclusive advantages when using this chat system.
This new subscription plan, launched on February 1 in the United States and extended to users outside that country on February 10, is priced at US$20 per month (about 18.50 euros to change).
First of all, one of the general benefits of this payment model is being able to “help support the availability of free access to as many people as possible.” In this way, the first thing in which they collaborate is in a kind of patronage for the rest of the users.
Of course, in addition to offering this access to as many people as possible, paying the 18.50 euros per month also has a series of benefits:
- General access to ChatGPT, even during peak hours .
- Faster response times.
- Priority access to new features and enhancements.
The arrival of this paid version, according to OpenAI, does not mean that the free use of ChatGPT is in danger . We love our free users and will continue to offer free access to ChatGPT. We released ChatGPT as a research preview so we could learn more about the strengths and weaknesses of the system and gather user feedback to help us improve its limitations. Since then, millions of people have given us feedback, we’ve made several major updates, and we’ve seen users find value in a variety of professional use cases, including content writing and editing, brainstorming, programming help, and learning new topics.
The differential factor is GPT-4
The differential key today is GPT-4, released a few days ago. ChatGPT Plus subscribers are currently the only ones who have had access to GPT-4 on chat.openai.com (although with a usage limit). Subsequently, the exact usage limit will be adjusted according to the demand and the performance of the system in practice, but for now testing the latest version of the Pretrained Generative Transformer is exclusive to paying OpenAI clients.
Of course, the days of the current price may be numbered, since it was reported that, depending on the traffic patterns they observe, they may introduce a new subscription level for higher volume use of GPT-4. It’s also true that GPT-4 isn’t always envisioned to be paid , rather they hope at some point to offer a certain number of free GPT-4 queries so that those without a subscription can try it too.