ChatGPT Go subscription launched in India at ₹399, offers 10x higher usage limits. All you need to know
Meanwhile, users in India will now also be able to see ChatGPT subscription prices in Indian Rupees and make the payment through UPI. Head of ChatGPT Nick Turley, in a post on X about the new subscription, said that it is being rolled out to users in India first and the company will learn from feedback before expanding to other countries.
Users can also pay for the existing ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Pro plans in Indian Rupees, which now cost ₹ 1,999 and ₹ 19,900 respectively.
The new plan seems to be an effort by OpenAI to widen its subscriber base in its second biggest market. While OpenAI had earlier stated that ChatGPT has surpassed 700 million weekly users, most of them continue to be free users.
OpenAI has not gone into detail about the exact usage limits for ChatGPT Go users.
'Limits (for ChatGPT Go) may vary based on system conditions to ensure a smooth experience for all users.' OpenAI said in a post on its website.
The company has earlier clarified that ChatGPT Free users get access to 10 messages to the latest GPT-5 standard model every 5 hours and one message to the GPT-5 Thinking model every day.
A 10x multiple of this should lead us to ChatGPT Go members having 100 messages per 5 hours to the GPT-5 standard model and 10 messages every day for the GPT-5 Thinking model.
This, however, does not seem likely given that initially OpenAI had launched GPT-5 while giving 80 messages/3 hours for the standard model and 200 messages per week to the Thinking model.
Meanwhile, it doesn't seem like OpenAI is providing ChatGPT Go users with the option of choosing personalities either. ChatGPT had gotten four new personalities — Cynic, Robot, Listener, and Nerd — with the GPT-5 release, but these customizations were only available to Plus, Pro, Team, and Enterprise users.
ChatGPT Go users may not be able to access the GPT-4o model as well which was recently deprecated by OpenAI but later brought back for paid users after social media backlash.
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