OpenAI is introducing Premium Seats for ChatGPT Business at $125 per user per month, or $100 with annual billing. This tier offers five times the usage capacity of the standard plan and removes the five-hour limit on continuous operation. Usage resets weekly, and administrators can assign either the premium or standard tier to individual team members within the same workspace. The company states that teams are undertaking more complex tasks which require significantly higher token consumption. Agent-based workflows drive this demand because they execute multiple steps autonomously, generating far more output than simple chat interactions. This pricing adjustment follows a pattern seen across the industry where flat-rate models act as loss leaders before introducing tiers for heavy usage. Microsoft has adopted a different strategy by replacing expensive external models with cheaper in-house alternatives in Copilot. The shift reflects a move away from unlimited access toward a structure that accounts for the computational cost of running autonomous agents.
- Premium seats cost $125 monthly or $100 annually.
- Usage capacity is five times higher than standard seats.
- The five-hour limit on continuous generation is removed.
