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 supply of GPT-4o, I am not so positive.
With this newest replace, OpenAI revealed an omnimodel that makes GPT-4-level intelligence obtainable 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 photographs and paperwork to debate them with ChatGPT; looking the net to provide extra present context; and superior knowledge evaluation.
These modifications could make it onerous to find out who will discover free ChatGPT ample and who ought to spring for a Plus subscription. As a ChatGPT Plus subscriber, I will clarify beneath in precisely which instances it is best to use one or the opposite. As soon as GPT-4o is extensively obtainable, I will take a look at it to see the way it performs free of charge customers and ChatGPT Plus subscribers and report if any additional variations come up.
It’s best to use ChatGPT Plus if…
1. You employ ChatGPT much more than the common person
With GPT-4o giving free customers lots of the identical capabilities that have been solely obtainable behind a Plus subscription, the explanations to enroll in a month-to-month payment have dwindled however should not fully gone. Free ChatGPT customers will likely be restricted within the variety of messages they’ll ship with GPT-4o, relying on utilization and demand; nonetheless, OpenAI does not specify that restrict.
OpenAI says ChatGPT will change robotically 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 of 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 count on OpenAI will enhance the boundaries for GPT-4o for each free and paid customers.
2. You’ll be able to’t wait
OpenAI says it’s starting to roll out GPT-4o to ChatGPT Plus, Crew, and ChatGPT free customers right this moment, with Enterprise customers coming quickly. Throughout the Spring Replace reside 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. Which means that solely a fraction of ChatGPT customers at the moment have entry to the brand new options, with this quantity rising shortly.
For those who 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 may get a Plus subscription now to stave off the thrill. Observe that you may 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 embrace the brand new Voice Mode, which is able to roll out over the approaching weeks. OpenAI will even launch a Home windows model of the app later this 12 months.
3. You need a instrument to create charts and tables
ChatGPT is getting an upgraded knowledge evaluation characteristic that allows customers to create interactive charts and tables from datasets. The improve additionally lets customers add information straight from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, along with the choice to browse for information on their native gadget. These new options will likely be obtainable solely in GPT-4o to ChatGPT Plus, Crew, and Enterprise customers.
With these capabilities, you can add a complete analysis examine to ChatGPT and ask it to generate a desk with sure parameters (at all times test that the information ChatGPT enters is right). Then, you can 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, will be custom-made and downloaded to be used in displays and paperwork.
It’s best to use free ChatGPT if…
1. You do not wish to pay a month-to-month payment
When GPT-4o is offered, ChatGPT customers will now not want a Plus subscription to entry a lot of the options that originally attracted subscribers. OpenAI is making GPT-4o obtainable to all customers, whether or not they’re paying or not.
ChatGPT free customers will be capable of entry the multimodal GPT-4o with GPT-4-level intelligence, get responses from the net, use superior knowledge evaluation, add information and photographs 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 pictures natively in GPT-4o (OpenAI didn’t disclose this throughout the occasion), free customers can 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 informal ChatGPT person
There isn’t any must improve to a ChatGPT Plus membership should you’re only a informal person 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 can have a message restrict that’s 5 occasions larger than that of free customers, with Crew and Enterprise customers getting even larger limits.
For those who’re a free person who does not use ChatGPT usually and stays inside the utilization restrict, you would not get a lot profit from a ChatGPT Plus subscription now. I count on OpenAI will amend the subscription advantages or the value as time passes and GPT-4o turns into extensively obtainable.
