ChatGPT Enterprise Pricing and Plans, Explained (2026)

Q: What are the key differences between ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Enterprise?

Plus is a plan for one person, at US$20 a month. On personal plans, OpenAI's table says of training on your content: "Opt-out available". Enterprise is bought by the organisation. For business plans OpenAI states: "By default, we do not use your business data for training our models."

Your CFO asks before the budget round: what will ChatGPT Enterprise cost us next year? You open OpenAI’s pricing page. The smaller plans show a price. Under Enterprise it says “Contact sales”. So you search for ChatGPT Enterprise pricing, and the blogs you find give you a number that is not on OpenAI’s pricing page.

The short version: OpenAI publishes no price for ChatGPT Enterprise.^[1] The nearest official price is ChatGPT Business, at US$20 per user per month on annual billing.^[2] This guide shows what is official, what the repeated figures are worth, and what decides the real bill.

PromptPartner deploys AI in mid-sized and larger companies in Europe, and we roll out Claude Enterprise and ChatGPT Enterprise. You keep the contracts for Claude or ChatGPT. We advise. All ChatGPT facts come from OpenAI’s own pages, read on 7 October 2026. Prices are in US dollars. The pages change often, so follow the links before you sign.

Key takeaways

ChatGPT Enterprise has no public price and no published seat minimum. OpenAI’s pricing page says “Custom pricing”.^[1]
ChatGPT Business, the plan below it, has a list price: US$20 per user per month on annual billing, or US$25 monthly.^[2]
The figures repeated across the web, US$45 to US$75 per user and a minimum of 150 seats, come from blogs. One of them, Coworker.ai, traces them to a single Reddit post from 2023.^[17]
Usage is billed apart from the seat. On a token-billed contract, an assigned seat is charged even when nobody uses it.^[6]

ChatGPT Enterprise pricing: the short answer

ChatGPT Enterprise is OpenAI’s plan for organisations, bought through its sales team. It has no list price. The pricing page prints “Custom pricing” in its place.^[1] The help centre adds that the seat types and “their billing terms depend on your agreement”.^[4]

Two things are public. The first is the price of the plan below: ChatGPT Business costs US$20 per user per month on annual billing.^[2] The second is a rate card for Enterprise contracts that are billed in tokens.^[7] A token is a small piece of text, the unit AI models count in. The card lists US dollar prices per million tokens, and says that your contract decides the rates and discounts.

Three things are on no OpenAI page we read: a price per Enterprise seat, a seat minimum, and the price of one credit. Those are in your quote.

The ChatGPT plans for companies, side by side

OpenAI sells two ChatGPT plans for companies: ChatGPT Business and ChatGPT Enterprise. Business has two seat types. A seat, in OpenAI’s words, “is paid capacity in a workspace, separate from the member who uses it”.^[2]

ChatGPT Business and ChatGPT Enterprise side by side: price per user, seats, how you pay and how usage is billed

The table adds the Premium seat and the controls OpenAI lists.

Source: OpenAI pricing page and help centre, read on 7 October 2026. US dollars.
	ChatGPT Business	ChatGPT Enterprise
Price per seat, per month	Standard seat: $20 on annual billing, $25 monthly. Premium seat: $100 on annual billing, $125 monthly	Not published. “Custom pricing”
Usage	Included, up to a limit. Higher limits on a Premium seat	Set by contract: a credit pool, or tokens billed in US dollars
Size	2 to 200 seats in a new workspace	No minimum published
How you buy	Online, by credit card. Monthly or annual	Through sales, by invoice. Annual plan
Single sign-on (SAML)	Listed	Listed
SCIM, role-based access, IP allowlisting, data residency	Not listed	Listed

Three details are easy to miss.

Business stops at 200 seats. For workspaces created from 24 August 2026, “the upper limit is 200 paid Standard and Premium seats total”. OpenAI adds: “If you need a larger number of seats, consider ChatGPT Enterprise.” Older workspaces keep their previous limit.^[3]
No Enterprise minimum is published. The pricing page says only this: “Business plans are available starting at 2 users. Please contact sales to learn more about our Enterprise plan.”^[1]
“Team” is the old name. “ChatGPT Team was renamed to ChatGPT Business on August 29, 2025.”^[2]

A note for European buyers: the price you see depends on where you open the page. Our read from Switzerland showed CHF 15 per user per month for Business on annual billing.^[1] We could not read the euro or pound prices from here, so open the page from your own country before you budget.

Is ChatGPT Enterprise better than Business?

ChatGPT Enterprise is not better than ChatGPT Business. They answer different needs, and three questions decide between them.

How many seats? For a new workspace, Business stops at 200 seats.
What does Security ask for? OpenAI’s comparison table lists these for Enterprise only: automatic user set-up (SCIM), role-based access controls, Enterprise Key Management, IP allowlisting, Compliance API logs and data residency.^[1]
How does Finance pay? Business takes a credit card. For “invoice billing, purchase orders, bank transfer” or “net terms”, OpenAI points to “a contracted offering instead of self-serve ChatGPT Business”.^[2]

If all three point to Business, start there.

Why is there no public price for ChatGPT Enterprise?

OpenAI does not say why ChatGPT Enterprise has no public price. Its pages show that each contract sets its own terms, and that usage is billed in one of two ways. “Your agreement determines which billing model applies.”^[6]

Billing model 1: credits

Your company buys a pool of credits with the contract. A credit is OpenAI’s unit for paid usage. Everyone in the workspace draws from the same pool “when using advanced features”. The core models and features need no credits.^[5]

The price of a credit is not public: it depends “on your plan or agreement”.^[9] When the pool is empty, “advanced features will be paused” until a workspace owner allows more usage or buys more credits.^[5]

Billing model 2: tokens

Here usage is counted in tokens and “charged in US dollars (USD) at the rates in your agreement”. These charges “apply alongside any contracted seat fees”.^[6] This covers chat, ChatGPT Work (the agent for longer tasks) and Codex (the tool for software work).

Finance should read two rules in that article.

A monthly invoice is not a monthly contract. Usage and seat fees are invoiced each month, after the month ends. But “the contract establishes its term and payment obligations”.^[6]
A commitment is not a prepaid balance. It is “an agreement to spend a specified amount over the contract term”. If you spend less, the shortfall “is billed according to your agreement”.^[6]

What the widely repeated figures are worth

On the British result page of 7 October 2026, Google’s AI Overview stated three numbers: US$45 to US$75 per user per month, a minimum of 150 seats, and about US$108,000 a year as the entry point. It cited three blogs and no OpenAI page.

One of those blogs, Coworker.ai, says where the numbers come from. The “$60 per user, 150-seat minimum” figure “traces back to a single 2023 Reddit post from shortly after ChatGPT Enterprise launched, in which one buyer shared their sales quote. OpenAI has never confirmed it.”^[17] Chatbase names the same origin: “one user on Reddit”.^[18] TechTarget writes the opposite: “ChatGPT Enterprise does not have a seat minimum”.^[19]

The third number is arithmetic: 150 seats at the reported average of US$60, for 12 months, is US$108,000.

If Coworker.ai is right, these figures go back to one buyer’s quote from 2023. The same page adds that “procurement firms with real deal flow keep landing in the same band”.^[17] So the range may be close to what some companies pay. Nobody outside those contracts can check. And a seat price says nothing about usage.

What to ask for instead

Ask OpenAI’s sales team for a written quote, and ask five questions.

Which billing model is this: credits or tokens?
What is the fee per seat, and which seat types does it cover?
What usage is included, and what do we pay beyond it?
Is there a spending commitment, and what happens if we use less?
When can we remove seats, and from which date does that lower the bill?

What do you pay for beyond the seats?

Beyond the seats, a ChatGPT Enterprise customer pays for usage, sometimes for the API, and for the rollout that gets the product used. OpenAI invoices only the first two.

The usage

Seat fees and usage are two lines on the bill. OpenAI calls seat fees “separate from an estimate of credits consumed”.^[10] The tasks that are hardest to predict run often, read a lot of information and call other tools.^[11]

OpenAI prints one planning example: marketing teams that used ChatGPT Work for the first time. Projected over a year, the added credit use was worth about US$53 per employee at the median. The average was about US$309, and the 90th percentile about US$1,154. Why the gap? Because “a smaller number of employees consume more credits”. The figures come from one week of use, and they are not prices per user.^[10] Read them as a pattern: a few heavy users move the bill.

The API and data residency

If your developers build on OpenAI’s models, that is a second bill: “API usage is invoiced separately.”^[6]

Data residency keeps your stored data in a region you choose, and it is not an extra charge. OpenAI includes it “at no additional cost for ChatGPT Enterprise and Education plans”, and the regions include “Europe (EEA + Switzerland)”.^[13] It is offered to new Enterprise customers, for in-scope content. What that covers, and what to ask, is in our comparison of the two Enterprise plans.

The work around the licence

A licence gives your people access. It does not decide which data may go into ChatGPT, connect it to your CRM, or show a sales team what to do with it on Monday. That work is the rollout, and it needs its own budget line.

Here is an example from our own work, with one honest limit: it was a Claude Enterprise rollout, not a ChatGPT one. At a European software company above €100 million ARR, we shipped five working tools into the systems the team already used. One of the tools turns a week of work on customer collateral into minutes: a rep asks for on-brand material for a deal, and it is ready. In our view, the work around the licence does not depend on the product. Read the case study.

How to avoid paying for unused seats

To avoid paying for unused seats in ChatGPT Enterprise, compare assigned seats with active users every month. Then remove idle seats before the next billing period begins. The reason is OpenAI’s billing rule for token-billed contracts. Where seat fees apply, the seat charge follows the number of assigned seats at the start of each billing month. That holds “even if assigned users haven’t sent a message or run a task”.^[6] On a credit contract, no OpenAI page we read says when a removed seat lowers the bill. There the terms “depend on the Order Form and pricing model”, so ask.^[5]

Five steps against unused ChatGPT Enterprise seats: read two numbers, remove idle seats early, set limits, start with one group, ask why a seat is idle

Read two numbers. Workspace analytics shows “Seats purchased” and “Active users”.^[12] The gap is what you pay for and nobody uses.
Remove idle seats early. On a token-billed contract, a removed seat lowers the bill only from “the next billing month”.^[6]
Set limits before usage grows. Eligible Enterprise admins can set a monthly limit for each user, as a default or by group.^[11] An alert is not a limit: “Alerts provide notice but don’t stop spending.”^[10]
Start with one group. OpenAI’s own advice: “Select a limited group and a workflow your organization can evaluate.”^[10]
Ask why a seat is idle. Our view: often nobody has shown that person where ChatGPT fits into their week. Our weekly office hours are for that.

Expect uneven use. In OpenAI’s 2025 report “The state of enterprise AI”, workers at the 95th percentile of adoption send far more messages than the median worker.^[14] So do not order a seat for everyone on day one.

Which teams go first? Our AI audit answers that. It takes four weeks and has a fixed price, set by the size of your company and the number of departments. It finds the use cases that pay off and puts a euro figure on each one. You can stop after it. See how we roll out ChatGPT Enterprise.

ChatGPT Enterprise or Claude Enterprise: what differs on cost?

On cost, ChatGPT Enterprise and Claude Enterprise differ most in what you can see before you talk to sales. Anthropic prints its seat price: US$20 per seat per month, billed annually, with a minimum of 20 seats and usage “billed as you go at API rates”.^[16] OpenAI prints neither a seat price nor a minimum.

Behind that, the two are close. Both charge for seats and, on at least one Enterprise model, for usage apart from the seat. We do not say which is cheaper: no public page supports it, and your quote and your usage decide. For the full comparison, read ChatGPT Enterprise vs Claude Enterprise. For the Claude side, see Claude Enterprise pricing.

Frequently asked questions

How much does ChatGPT Enterprise cost?

OpenAI publishes no price for ChatGPT Enterprise. Each contract sets it, and usage is billed in credits or in tokens. The nearest published price is ChatGPT Business: US$20 per user per month on annual billing, as read on 7 October 2026. The figure of US$60 per user that many pages repeat comes from blogs such as Coworker.ai, not from OpenAI.

Is there a minimum number of seats for ChatGPT Enterprise?

OpenAI publishes none. Its pricing page says only that Business starts at 2 users. The minimum of 150 seats that many pages repeat comes from blogs. One of them, Coworker.ai, traces it to a single Reddit post from 2023.

What is the difference between ChatGPT Team and Enterprise?

ChatGPT Team was renamed ChatGPT Business on 29 August 2025. Business is bought online at a list price, from 2 seats up to 200 for new workspaces. Enterprise is a contract through OpenAI’s sales team. OpenAI’s table lists SCIM, role-based access controls and data residency for Enterprise only.

What are the key differences between ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Enterprise?

Plus is a plan for one person, at US$20 a month.^[9] On personal plans, OpenAI’s table says of training on your content: “Opt-out available”.^[1] Enterprise is bought by the organisation. For business plans OpenAI states: “By default, we do not use your business data for training our models.”^[15]

Is ChatGPT Enterprise unlimited?

Not in the sense of free of charge. OpenAI says that “virtually unlimited messages do not mean zero-dollar usage”.^[8] Advanced features use credits, or tokens billed in US dollars, depending on the contract.