When GPT-4 was OpenAI’s strongest synthetic intelligence massive language mannequin (LLM), paying for a subscription to ChatGPT Plus—which prices $20 a month—made sense. However now that OpenAI introduced the provision of GPT-4o, I am not so certain.
With this newest replace, OpenAI revealed an omnimodel that makes GPT-4-level intelligence accessible for all, so you will not want a Plus subscription to entry it. What’s extra, free customers can now entry options that have been beforehand reserved for paid subscribers, together with GPT Retailer entry to make use of customized GPT bots; the Reminiscence characteristic to provide their conversations a way of continuity; importing images and paperwork to debate them with ChatGPT; shopping the online to provide extra present context; and superior information evaluation.
These modifications could make it exhausting to find out who will discover free ChatGPT enough and who ought to spring for a Plus subscription. As a ChatGPT Plus subscriber, I will clarify under in precisely which instances you must use one or the opposite. As soon as GPT-4o is extensively accessible, I will check it to see the way it performs without spending a dime customers and ChatGPT Plus subscribers and report if any additional variations come up.
You need to use ChatGPT Plus if…
1. You employ ChatGPT much more than the common consumer
With GPT-4o giving free customers lots of the identical capabilities that have been solely accessible behind a Plus subscription, the explanations to join a month-to-month charge have dwindled however usually are not utterly gone. Free ChatGPT customers will likely be restricted within the variety of messages they will ship with GPT-4o, relying on utilization and demand; nonetheless, OpenAI does not specify that restrict.
OpenAI says ChatGPT will change mechanically to GPT-3.5 when free customers attain their restrict. ChatGPT Plus subscribers have 5 occasions the capability of free customers. Paid customers will be capable to ask GPT-4o 5 occasions as many questions as free customers and can nonetheless have entry to GPT-4 once they exceed their restrict. We anticipate OpenAI will enhance the boundaries for GPT-4o for each free and paid customers.
2. You may’t wait
OpenAI says it’s starting to roll out GPT-4o to ChatGPT Plus, Workforce, and ChatGPT free customers right this moment, with Enterprise customers coming quickly. Throughout the Spring Replace dwell stream, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati introduced that the brand new GPT-4o mannequin and the remainder of the updates will roll out iteratively to prospects over the following few weeks. Because of this solely a fraction of ChatGPT customers at the moment have entry to the brand new options, with this quantity rising shortly.
In case you do not wish to wait till you get the brand new replace in your account to make use of Plus options as a free subscriber, you will get a Plus subscription now to stave off the thrill. Observe you can cancel the subscription everytime you need.
ChatGPT Plus customers nonetheless get early entry to new options that OpenAI rolls out, together with the brand new ChatGPT desktop app for macOS. This early entry will quickly embody the brand new Voice Mode, which can roll out over the approaching weeks. OpenAI can even launch a Home windows model of the app later this 12 months.
3. You desire a device to create charts and tables
ChatGPT is getting an upgraded information evaluation characteristic that permits customers to create interactive charts and tables from datasets. The improve additionally lets customers add recordsdata instantly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, along with the choice to browse for recordsdata on their native system. These new options will likely be accessible solely in GPT-4o to ChatGPT Plus, Workforce, and Enterprise customers.
With these capabilities, you may add a complete analysis examine to ChatGPT and ask it to generate a desk with sure parameters (at all times verify that the data ChatGPT enters is appropriate). Then, you may click on on a cell and ask ChatGPT a query about it or immediate it to create a pie chart. The pie chart, which might even be interactive, may be custom-made and downloaded to be used in displays and paperwork.
You need to use free ChatGPT if…
1. You do not wish to pay a month-to-month charge
When GPT-4o is offered, ChatGPT customers will now not want a Plus subscription to entry many of the options that originally attracted subscribers. OpenAI is making GPT-4o accessible to all customers, whether or not they’re paying or not.
ChatGPT free customers will be capable to entry the multimodal GPT-4o with GPT-4-level intelligence, get responses from the online, use superior information evaluation, add recordsdata and images to debate with the chatbot, entry customized GPTs within the GPT Retailer, and have extra useful experiences with Reminiscence — all of which was ChatGPT Plus advantages.
Though it is unclear whether or not free customers can generate photographs natively in GPT-4o (OpenAI didn’t disclose this throughout the occasion), free customers may have entry to GPT bots within the GPT Retailer. If DALL-E entry stays a Plus characteristic, free customers can nonetheless entry the DALL-E bot within the GPT Retailer.
2. You are an off-the-cuff ChatGPT consumer
There isn’t any must improve to a ChatGPT Plus membership should you’re only a informal consumer who does not attain the utilization limits of GPT-4o. The brand new GPT-4o mannequin is rolling out to ChatGPT free customers with utilization limits starting right this moment, however OpenAI hasn’t specified this restrict. Plus customers may have a message restrict that’s 5 occasions better than that of free customers, with Workforce and Enterprise customers getting even greater limits.
In case you’re a free consumer who does not use ChatGPT typically and stays throughout the utilization restrict, you would not get a lot profit from a ChatGPT Plus subscription now. I anticipate OpenAI will amend the subscription advantages or the worth as time passes and GPT-4o turns into extensively accessible.
