OpenAI introduces premium seats for ChatGPT Business at $125 per user

OpenAI is shaking up its enterprise pricing with a new premium tier for ChatGPT Business, offering seats at $125 per user per month, or $100 per user with annual billing. The move sits alongside the company’s standard Business seats, which remain priced at $25 per user monthly or $20 with an annual commitment, creating a clear good-better split for organizations shopping for AI tools.

From Team to Business: what actually changed

The ChatGPT Business plan itself isn’t entirely new. OpenAI rebranded what was previously called ChatGPT Team into ChatGPT Business on August 29, 2025. But the rebrand came with more than a name change.

Standard seats require a minimum purchase of two and include shared workspaces, administrative controls, single sign-on (SSO), and a privacy guarantee that no business data gets used to train OpenAI’s models.

OpenAI also trimmed the standard seat price by $5 back on April 2, 2026, bringing the monthly rate down from $30 to $25 and the annual rate from $25 to $20.

Another operational change worth noting: starting August 19, 2026, any seats added to an existing Business plan will incur immediate pro-rated charges rather than waiting until the next billing cycle.

The pricing math for organizations

Let’s put some numbers on this. A 100-person team going all-in on standard annual seats would pay $2,000 per month, or $24,000 per year. That same team on premium annual seats would be looking at $10,000 per month, or $120,000 per year.

OpenAI’s Enterprise plan, which is custom-quoted, typically requires a minimum of roughly 150 seats. For mid-market companies that don’t need 150 seats but want more than the basics, the premium Business seat fills a gap that previously required either overpaying for Enterprise or making do with less.

Simplification as strategy

OpenAI has also been pruning complexity from its Business offering. The company phased out its Codex-only seats model for new workspaces as of June 24, 2026. That model let companies buy cheaper seats that were limited to coding assistance rather than full ChatGPT access.

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