ChatGPT
ChatGPT is OpenAI's AI-powered conversational assistant for answering questions, generating content, writing code, conducting deep research, and completing ambitious work tasks.
At a Glance
About ChatGPT
ChatGPT is OpenAI's flagship AI assistant, accessible at chat.openai.com, and serves as the primary consumer and professional interface to OpenAI's language models. It supports text, voice, image generation, file uploads, and deep research capabilities in a single web-based interface. OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT significantly beyond simple Q&A into a platform for ambitious, multi-step work.
What It Is
ChatGPT is a conversational AI assistant built on OpenAI's large language models, including GPT-4o and the newer GPT-5.6 series. It lets users ask questions, generate and edit text, write and debug code, analyze documents, create images via DALLĀ·E integration, and conduct deep research sessions. The interface is available on the web, as a desktop app, and on mobile, with a voice mode for hands-free interaction.
Work and Codex Integration
According to OpenAI's announcement "ChatGPT for your most ambitious work," ChatGPT now incorporates both a Work mode and Codex ā OpenAI's cloud-based software engineering agent. Codex can write code, run tests, fix bugs, and navigate codebases autonomously in a sandboxed environment. This positions ChatGPT not just as a chat interface but as an agentic platform capable of executing multi-step software engineering tasks on behalf of users.
Core Capabilities
- Deep Research: Multi-step web research that synthesizes sources into structured reports
- Image generation: DALLĀ·E integration for creating and editing images from text prompts
- Voice mode: Real-time voice conversations with the model
- File and document analysis: Upload PDFs, spreadsheets, and images for analysis
- Code writing and execution: Write, run, and debug code in a sandboxed environment via Codex
- Canvas / document editing: Collaborative document and code editing within the chat interface
- Custom GPTs: User-created and community-shared specialized assistants via the GPT store
Platform and Access
ChatGPT is primarily a web application at chatgpt.com, with native desktop apps for Windows and macOS and mobile apps for iOS and Android. It also exposes an API for developers through OpenAI's platform. The interface supports chat history search, image browsing, and an Apps section for accessing specialized tools. Users can log in to unlock personalized responses based on saved chat history, file uploads, and image creation.
Update: GPT-5.6 and GPT-Live
OpenAI's About page lists GPT-5.6 as "frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition" and introduces GPT-Live, a new real-time interaction mode. These releases signal continued rapid model iteration, with ChatGPT serving as the primary delivery surface for each new model generation. The GPT-5.6 system card has been published separately, reflecting OpenAI's ongoing safety documentation practice alongside product launches.
Community Discussions
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Pricing
Free
Write, learn, plan, and get quick answers at no cost
- Search the web and stay up to date
- Chat with your files and images
- Study Mode with step-by-step guidance and practice questions
- Draft emails, essays, and presentations
- Create images with AI
Go
Keep chatting with expanded access
- Core model
- More messages and uploads
- More image creation
- Longer memory
- Expanded voice mode
- This plan may include ads
Plus
Your AI assistant
- Codex agent to automate coding
- Work agent to act across apps and files
- Advanced intelligence for complex work
- Higher quality image creation
- Expanded memory and 20 GB of storage
- Email and calendar connections
- Larger projects to organize your work
- Tools for personal finance and data analysis
- No ads
Pro 100
Standard usage for people who rely on the most powerful intelligence throughout the workday
- Most capable frontier Pro model
- Dots, always-on agents
- More Work and Codex usage
- Maximum memory and 100 GB of storage
- Early access to new tools and models
- No ads
- Unlimited subject to abuse guardrails
Pro 200
More usage for people who rely on the most powerful intelligence throughout the workday
- Most capable frontier Pro model
- Dots, always-on agents
- Faster Work and Codex
- Maximum memory and 100 GB of storage
- Early access to new tools and models
- No ads
- Unlimited subject to abuse guardrails
Pro 500
Maximum power for people who rely on the most powerful intelligence throughout the workday
- Most capable frontier Pro model
- Dots, always-on agents
- Fastest Work and Codex
- Maximum memory and 100 GB of storage
- Early access to new tools and models
- No ads
- Unlimited subject to abuse guardrails
Business Standard
Per-seat plan for everyday work on teams of 2-200 employees
- All ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex features
- Access across desktop, web, and mobile
- Connect to Google Workspace, Slack, GitHub, Microsoft 365, and more
- Secure workspace with SAML, SSO, and MFA
- Centralized billing and administration
- Usage analytics and spend controls
- No training on business data by default
- Workspace agents for customized workflows
- Mix and match seat types
- Unlimited subject to abuse guardrails
Business Premium
Per-seat plan with 5x more usage than Standard and no 5-hour limit, for teams of 2-200 employees
- 5x more usage than Standard seat
- No 5-hour limit
- All ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex features
- Access across desktop, web, and mobile
- Connect to Google Workspace, Slack, GitHub, Microsoft 365, and more
- Secure workspace with SAML, SSO, and MFA
- Centralized billing and administration
- Usage analytics and spend controls
- No training on business data by default
- Workspace agents for customized workflows
- Mix and match seat types
- Unlimited subject to abuse guardrails
Capabilities
Key Features
- Conversational AI chat
- Deep research with web browsing
- Image generation via DALLĀ·E
- Voice mode for real-time conversations
- File and document upload and analysis
- Code writing, execution, and debugging via Codex
- Canvas document and code editing
- Custom GPTs and GPT Store
- Chat history search
- Personalized responses based on saved chats
- Agentic software engineering tasks (Codex)
- Mobile and desktop apps
Integrations
Demo Video
