Openai Launches A Sub $5 Chatgpt Plan In India

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8:57 PM PDT · August 18, 2025

OpenAI coming launched a new, cheaper ChatGPT paid subscription scheme successful India called ChatGPT GO, priced astatine ₹399 per period ($4.60), which is much affordable than nan ₹1,999 (about $23) per period Plus Plan.

The institution had turned connected section rate pricing for each its plans a fewer days ago, and pinch this launch, it will besides let users to salary done UPI (Unified Payment Interface), India’s costs framework.

Nick Turley, VP astatine OpenAI and caput of ChatGPT, said that this scheme will summation nan message, image generation, and record uploads by 10 times complete nan free tier. The ChatGPT Go scheme will besides alteration amended representation retention for much personalized responses, Turely said.

We conscionable launched ChatGPT Go successful India, a caller subscription tier that gives users successful India much entree to our astir celebrated features: 10x higher connection limits, 10x much image generations, 10x much record uploads, and 2x longer representation compared pinch our free tier. All for Rs. 399. 🇮🇳

— Nick Turley (@nickaturley) August 19, 2025

“Making ChatGPT much affordable has been a cardinal inquire from users! We’re rolling retired Go successful India first and will study from feedback earlier expanding to different countries,” Turley said.

Tibor Blaho, a package technologist pinch a estimation for accurately leaking upcoming AI products, had previously teased this scheme and its details.

Last month, Turley noted that ChatGPT now has much than 700 cardinal play users worldwide — up from 500 cardinal successful March. OpenAI launched its updated image generator characteristic for ChatGPT successful March, and since past it has seen an uptick successful usage successful India.

According to app analytics patient AppFigures, India has been nan starring state successful position of ChatGPT app downloads crossed platforms, pinch complete 29 cardinal downloads coming from nan state successful nan past 90 days. However, nan app only made $3.6 cardinal successful this play from users successful nan country.

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This move will apt nudge much consumers to subscribe to utilizing ChatGPT more, fixed its pricing. Other AI companies person besides made moves to pull users from nan country’s net personification guidelines of complete 850 million. Last month, Perplexity collaborated pinch web supplier Airtel to connection free Perplexity Pro subscriptions. Google besides dished up a free AI Pro scheme for India-based students for 1 year.

While OpenAI’s move is not giving retired immoderate freebies, section and affordable pricing will apt consequence successful a amended subscription conversion complaint for ChatGPT successful India.

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