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ChatGPT releases “Professional Plan” for $42/mo

37 points by SandroG ↗ HN
Instructions to upgrade:

  1. Log into chat.openai.com
  2. Click on "Upgrade plan" on the left slide menu
  3. "Your account" popup appears with an option to upgrade to a "Professional Plan" for $42/mo, or stay on the "Free Plan"
Free Plan benefits:

  - Available when demand is low
  - Standard response speed
  - Regular model updates
Professional Plan benefits:

  - Available even when demand is high
  - Faster response speed
  - Priority access to new features

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Bostonian
When asking ChatGPT to write code in language X to do task Y, often it works, for simple Y, but sometimes it produces code that does not even compile. For a professional version, why not integrate ChatGPT with compilers such as g++, so that if it is asked to produce C++ code, it does not return code that does not compile (or at least warns that the code is not compilable). You could go further and have it compile and execute programs and verify that they do what the user wants.
tedmiston
It would be interesting to hook it into something that runs the code in browser or even on a server-side environment.

Although like you mentioned, it mostly gives code that often works, though whether or not it knows whether the code works is another story.

pelorat
Well, hopefully "professional" means people are allowed to build products on it, like those you suggest.
blondin
$42? joke is on us. i would pay less for it. will stay on the free plan and bear with it not being available all the time. which, it does already.
SandroG
100%. I wish they offered a tiered plan.
fIREpOK
Usually the Playground still works when ChatGPT is down...
thiscatis
So I guess the eyeball scanning token didn’t take off?
yuppie_scum
Too much I think. I’d have given them like 10-15. I don’t see an upgrade option though.
fortyseven
It's a great product. Some day. But now that the honeymoon is over, it needs a whole lot more going on to justify that kind of price. Come back when there's more improvements than a couple months of a public alpha behind it.
asicsp
42 - The answer to life, the universe, and everything?
ericlewis
Interesting. Don’t see this option.
lern_too_spel
Next, they'll introduce ads into free plan responses.
Sophira
I'm actually genuinely surprised that they're keeping the free version around.
borplk
They want the free input data.
yucky
It's the same reason Gmail is free. You're part of the product.
ddmma
At $42/mo should generate Netflix personalised series on own meta environment.
jareds
I find it quicker then a google search for things like generating code to initialize a list in a single line in Java when I forgot about Arrays.asList or creating a skeleton rest service in Springboot so I don't have to remember the exact annotations. I won't use it on my work computer though. It's not worth $42 for personal use but if I thought I could get my company to get me the professional plan I would.
markus_zhang
Couldn't really find much use of it. An interesting toy indeed, but a toy nevertheless.
gaza3g
The link to upgrade seems to have been removed. I guess the pro plan was oversubscribed?
BonoboIO
Show me a use case that works and is worth 42 dollar and I m in.
anigbrowl
I had the same negative reaction to the price, but that's as a hobbyist/explorer. Given the number of people launching products that sit on top of ChatGPT, I understand the high price point, as much as any pre-trained large language model can be said to 'understand' something.
tedmiston
There's an argument to be made for not undercutting the third party ecosystem as well.
ManlyBread
It's worth 5$ tops with the amount of generic, unhelpful and false answers it is providing.
dimitry12
Can anyone who has the visible "Upgrade plan" option share a link to it? I wonder if it's only disabled in UI and we can still upgrade.
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SandroG
Folks are right, the Upgrade option is no longer available for me either.
tedmiston
Same. Perhaps they are limiting the initial rollout of Pro to maintain the quality of experience.

Or A/B testing multiple price points and this was just one of them? Hmm.

SandroG
Good point. I’d be curious to hear if anyone has upgraded their plan.
shahbaby
It's interesting to see how quickly the sentiment changes after there's a price tag.
tedmiston
$42/mo ~= $500/yr flat rate is still effectively free for a lot of businesses. I'm surprised they went with a flat rate instead of a per chat cost.

Say every chat cost a few cents as mentioned previously, $42 / 3¢ = 1,400 chats per month.

I'm curious to know what anyone using it for business purposes approximates their monthly chat volume at.

thunkshift1
Truth of life: ‘Highly paid’ software engineers are notorious free loaders and cheapskates
malshe
People in academia were super excited about chatGPT. But very quickly we found out that it just makes up stuff such as citations. It literally creates a bibliography of fake papers! Not sure anyone I know will pay anything for it even though our research budgets can easily afford this subscription.
kgbonnet
I am not able to see "Upgrade Plan" . Cn anyone suggest link to Upgrade plan?
muralmural
[Update] ChatGPT Professional is removed and not available at the moment. Reason behind is not released, and can only be speculated.
KomoD
Source?
muralmural
The professional plan is supposedly on the lefthand bar of the ChatGPT. Currently, it is removed. Please refer to the discord community. There are people who have immediately signed up to prove it was released for a short period of time, before it was taken off.