OpenAI plans to increase the price of its ChatGPT Plus subscription to $44 per month in the next five years

OpenAI is planning increase the price of your subscription to the paid version of your ChatGPT Plus ‘chatbot’, which will cost two dollars more at the end of this year 2024, and will continue to increase the subscription fee up to 44 dollars (39.49 euros at the exchange rate) in the next five years, según The New York Times.

The company led by Sam Altman launched ChatGPT Plus in February of last year, a version of its ‘chatbot’ that offers advantages such as more speed in your responses availability even in times of high demand and access to features of the latest models launched by the technology company, for one $20/month subscription (around 18.4 euros at the exchange rate).

Since its launch, OpenAI has seen growth in the use of this service, reaching around 10 million users subscribed to ChatGPT Plus globally. In this framework, in order to improve its income, the technology company has stated that expects to increase the price of the subscription to this service by 2 dollars by the end of 2024going from charging 20 to 22 dollars per month (19.71 euros at the exchange rate).

This is what the company has shared with its investment partners through a series of financial documents to which The New York Times has had access, in which, in addition, it has also detailed that it intends consecutively increase the price of subscription to ChatGPT Plus until reaching the 44 dollars a monthover the next five years.

That is, OpenAI plans double the price of its ChatGPT Plus Artificial Intelligence (AI) service by 2029 and, with this, it hopes to reach 100 billion dollars in income during that same year, as clarified by the media cited above.

This roadmap to increase prices for the ChatGPT service coincides with OpenAI’s recently known plans to abandon its status as a non-profit company and reconstitute itself as a public benefit company, also granting its CEO, Sam Altman, a 7 percent stake in it.

However, OpenAI has not officially communicated this change that would still be being weighed by the technology company. Likewise, the company He has not commented on the price increase either. of the subscription for ChatGPT Plus.