Is ChatGPT worth it for $42/mo? Are you gonna subscribe?
Well the AI service ChatGPT now has a paid, Professional Plan option that costs $42 per month. The news of the paid edition was shared on Twitter by Saboo_Shubham, an author of books on OpenAI GPT-3 and more.
With a paid plan, you get priority access, meaning you can use the service before free users. You can expect to receive faster responses from ChatGPT and when new features arrive, you’ll get access to it first.
Thankfully there will still be a free tier, but this change is likely to impact how we use the service. Free users will have to wait for the professionals to be done before getting their requests processed.
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No. ROI isn't there for me yet
What would be a fair price for you? I wonder because I'm building a tool based on ChatGPT which is integrates it into browser.
What exactly differentiates your tool from ChatGPT? Could you give me a brief overview?
HARPA has its own ML engine that boils down web pages to markdown documents under the hood which it then feeds to ChatGPT, supplying a prompt such as "summarize this page for me into a tweet", or "extract SEO keywords from this website". It also has web monitoring and automation capabilities, but please feel free to check out the website: https://harpa.ai Let me know if you have questions.
looks good. Whatever pricing you settle on, you probably need a free trial. Or maybe even an unpaid "basic" plan. I would want to try out your automations first to see if they actually work well.
Beyond that... maybe you should just come up with a price. You can change it. It isn't such a great deal as long as you deliver on what you price
I use ChatGPT every day and I don't think that its really needed, especially when my Free Version always works and that of my Friend who got the paid version don't
I also agree with you.
I believe the subscription will be worth it for people who use it for their work, but for those of us who use it for minor things, it wouldn't make sense to spend $42 a month.
Yes, It's will be value for money for some people who already used it for business purposes.
Not if it's gonna be working like this weekend.. It recommended me 8 books and 4 of them were the same one.
If it was $10 or $100 like copilot I'd do it in a heartbeat. $42 definitely not unless there is an ROI like I can use it for my business somehow
LOL wait, you would spend $100 in a hearbeat, but "$42 definitely not"?
Do you have some specific resentment against Douglas Adams, or is there simply a typo in your post? :-)
$100 yearly < $42 monthly
He is talking about $10/month and $100/year copilot subscription.
Ha, that makes more sense now! Thanks
Thanks for your feedback.
Didn't use it that much before anyways, so not gonna sub
Why ChatGPT is over hyped ?
No, when I can get answers from google why to use chatgpt. Though it gives us info, sometimes things are repeatedly displayed, also its difficult to trust from where chatgpt answers are retrived from
I think chatgpt give us only 10% solution for our daily uses. Sometimes you can better results from google.
Do you know if the professional plan is with API? As far as I understand there is an API for gpt3, but not for chat gpt.
There's currently waitlist for the ChatGPT API, can't tell you how much/if any access to the API a pro plan will buy you, but it does make me think the API will have standalone billing. I'd rather use the API when it's released if it's going to be a pay for what you use deal, rather than subscription.
I'm searching for a job and I've used this to write bullshit cover letters in bulk, hiring managers love these for some bizarre reason. And still with my extensive use I haven't exhausted my allowance, yet.
42$ / month is very steep in my opinion, and it doesn't provide pinpoint solutions with enough accuracy to justify that (tried writing some custom React hooks and generate sci fi plots, was impressed but wouldn't trust it to fully make it part of my workflow).
As a hiring manager, I wanted to let you know the bizarre reason IMO.
A person who attached a cover letter applied more effort than a person who did not and I prefer hiring people who apply more effort to tasks. It’s that simple.
Also if you told me you used chatGPT to write that cover letter I would be even more likely to hire you. :-)
Another advantage of writing a cover letter from your side, is that you usually have to try to understand the company a bit better. This can be good during the interview stage if you get asked some theoretical company question, knowing who the competitors are, key products, history etc makes you look interested and likely a good candidate.
I hired for 2 positions recently and I had to process 140 CV’s, it’s time consuming, the cover letter makes you stand out.
With so many CV’s I’m making quick decisions in or out. Sometimes I make that decision in less than 30 seconds.
After the quick fire round it gets more in depth, I read the cover letter, I look for culture fit, previous experience, I think about my existing team and if this person might be a good a fit. During that round I spend 5-10 mins per person, I review LinkedIn, GitHub etc.
Then we have 10-20 people left I send out test, tasks, HR process etc, is different in each company. All of this work is done alongside my existing 45+ hour week. This stage can take 2-3 hours per person.
I’m not complaining. I genuinely like hiring and meeting new candidates, but I wanted to offer an insight into the process from the other side.
Thanks for the insight, I assumed it was a proof of work kind of mental model. Previously I used to ignore the cover letter attachment but with the current market and ChadGPT things have changed.
Yes, You are right.
Probably not, it's fun but not for that price, 10-15$ is okay-ish but so far it's a tool I can live without. Sure it did generate some nice ideas for some of my projects but it couldn't go into deeper details and those ideas didn't quite fit... Maybe chatgpt 4.0 will change my mind who knows :)
Yes, I think chatgpt 4.0 can change our minds. We are looking for it.
I don't think the value proposition is there for $42/month.
Uptime monitoring, affiliate links, newsletters, customer service tools are all more valuable and often cheaper.
The only thing I think it can be used for is content generation in that price range but I think people will quickly learn to filter such low effort content out.
You are right.
Only if they release full version. At the time it is severely restricted at 10%, paying to train it and not having the full featured access seems kinda lame. Basically there is ethical dilemma funding stuff that you are not allowed to access - that government and the connected have access to. Which in the end might be in a way be used against you.
Any link with info about this? I know GPT-4 is supposed to be much more powerful but didn't realize they've been restricting GPT-3?
ChatGPT is my most used app. Replaced google search after 4 days. I subscribed after 2 days. Having fast, reliable, distraction-free environment is absolute relief. Its bare bones UI is very close to my textedit workspace.
$42 / month is a bit rough. I got a paid OpenAPI account for my company which is pay-per-use and running ChatGPT costed me approx $20 last month, but i'm using it quite a lot.
It was helpful when writing landing pages. Instead of Googling "synonyms for x word" I would suggest have a convo with ChatGPT.
$42 is a little steep but if I built more pages it would be worth it. If I worked at a company I would definitely ask them to pay the $42.
At the moment I think it's not necessary, and that it's more expensive than it should be. The only thing I really value about those features is that you can use it almost whenever you want and with the free plan that is harder. But not enough in my opinion to pay like $500/year.
ChatGPT is becoming less and less available for free users since traffic on the site is only increasing. We may find ourselves being forced to pay otherwise the demand will never be low enough to access it for free.
Free version does most of my stuff. Literally I cant find any special feature in pro plan write now. But I think the free version itself deserves subscription!
The free version hasn't let me down recently, maybe it's just my work hours but there has never been much downtime for me at all! I would only upgrade to professional if they improved the text model or added other features. I really hope they keep the free version.
Is this FAKE NEWS? 👀
Because i checked openai.com and chat.openai.com using VPN from multiple countries.
And there is no URL where you can pay $42 or any other amount.
or is this a PR action to make people swallow $20-$30 easier?
The free version is still working well for me. If they were to shut off the free version I would 100% pay.
Ask AGI researchers to do saas pricing, of course you get 42 😅
If they don't increase the API pricing, it is better to go with API. You need just 2-3 developer hours to build an app similar to ChatGPT using their API.
$42/mo seems like a great deal for such a powerful language model, I'm definitely considering subscribing to it myself. It's always exciting to see the advancements in AI and natural language processing, and it's clear that ChatGPT is a prime example of that.
You can use it for multiple purposes i think it looks good but it also depends on your need and works if you do a little work then there is no need to pay $42 per month but if you think its your best friend then you can pay to keep your best friend with you!
I'm curious if OpenAI is using the term 'Professional' more literally with their pricing plan. While $42 is a little steep for me personally, (I could maaaaaybe justify $30?) we're using ChatGPT at work. From an ROI standpoint, if GPT can save one of us even just an hour or two a week, it'll more than pay for itself in salary costs. I wonder if pricing will change as the plan becomes more widely available? Maybe this is a test to gauge demand?
No need to pay for it when there are already several tools out there that are more particularly focused for the tasks needed (and more affordable).
Plus, I will always say that the fact that thing got massively popular is two things:
It was free and it played to human laziness.
I'm already paying for MIdjourney AI image generation and using it almost daily...chatGPT still a novelty factor but I think I'll probably end up as a subscriber to that too!
I really enjoy using ChatGPT for DevOps and SQL specifically. It's better than copilot for making "find-and-replace" like changes, but not as great of a code generator imo. It's also nice for language learning because I frequently ask it to "explain this codeblock." I don't think I'll be paying $42/mo personally, but I am going to ask my employer if they'd consider letting us expense it. I think they'd find it worthwhile.
Honestly, if it was the same price as copilot I would cancel my copilot and use it but the code generated is roughly equal and the explanation on chatGPT is better so I would 100% switch but not for 4.2x the cost.
I appreciate the availability of a free tier, however, I am expecting additional features to be included in the premium files, such as a more sophisticated model and access through API.
It depends on your usage. For 4, 5 searches per day, it's not recommended I think.