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OpenAI is offering its ChatGPT Go scheme disposable free of complaint for 1 twelvemonth to users successful India who motion up during a constricted promotional play starting November 4, arsenic nan institution looks to grow successful 1 of its apical markets.
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced nan promotion but did not specify really agelong nan connection would stay available. Existing ChatGPT Go subscribers successful India will besides beryllium eligible for nan free 12-month plan, nan institution said.
Priced astatine little than $5 per month, ChatGPT Go launched successful India successful August arsenic OpenAI’s astir affordable paid subscription plan. The work later expanded to Indonesia and, earlier this month, to 16 further countries crossed Asia.
India, nan world’s astir populous state pinch complete 700 cardinal smartphone users and much than a cardinal net subscribers, has been a cardinal marketplace for OpenAI. The institution opened its New Delhi office successful August and is presently building a section squad to grow its presence.
Earlier this year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said India was nan company’s second-largest marketplace aft nan U.S. However, making money from ChatGPT’s paid plans successful nan state has proven challenging. The app saw complete 29 cardinal downloads successful nan 90 days starring up to August, but generated conscionable $3.6 cardinal successful in-app purchases during that period, according to Appfigures information reviewed by TechCrunch astatine nan time.
ChatGPT Go offers 10 times much usage than nan free type for generating responses, creating images, and uploading files. It besides features improved representation for much personalized responses, according to OpenAI.
“Since initially launching ChatGPT Go successful India a fewer months ago, nan take and productivity we’ve seen from our users has been inspiring,” said Nick Turley, vice president and caput of ChatGPT, successful a statement. “We’re excited to spot nan astonishing things our users will build, learn, and execute pinch these tools.”
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OpenAI’s rivals, including Perplexity and Google, are besides looking to pat into India’s ample and youthful personification base. Perplexity precocious collaborated pinch Airtel to connection free Perplexity Pro subscriptions to nan telecom operator’s 360 cardinal subscribers. Similarly, Google introduced a free one-year AI Pro scheme for students successful India.
OpenAI is group to big its DevDay Exchange developer convention Bengaluru connected November 4, wherever it’s expected to make India-specific announcements aimed astatine section developers and enterprises.
Excited for our first DevDay Exchange arena successful India 🇮🇳 connected November 4. Ahead of that, we person immoderate breathtaking updates coming for India users complete nan adjacent mates of weeks. Stay tuned!
— Nick Turley (@nickaturley) October 28, 2025Jagmeet covers startups, tech policy-related updates, and each different awesome tech-centric developments from India for TechCrunch. He antecedently worked arsenic a main analogous astatine NDTV.
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