NEWS · COMPANIES · #2908
OpenAI to merge Chat and Work in ChatGPT and unify token budgets starting December
OpenAI is folding its Work product into ChatGPT, merging Chat and Work interfaces and, starting in December, consolidating Plus, Pro, and Business plans onto a single token budget that covers ChatGPT and Codex. Chats using Instant models will be excluded from the shared budget; users can monitor remaining tokens, wait for resets, upgrade plans, or purchase extra credits when they hit limits.
KEY POINTS
- OpenAI is folding its Work product into ChatGPT, merging Chat and Work interfaces and, starting in December, consolidating Plus, Pro, and Business plans onto a single token budget that covers ChatGPT and Codex.
- Chats using Instant models will be excluded from the shared budget; users can monitor remaining tokens, wait for resets, upgrade plans, or purchase extra credits when they hit limits.
- This changes how users consume and pay for model usage—effectively ending unlimited prompting and making model complexity and token usage a direct factor in plan value.
WHY IT MATTERS
This changes how users consume and pay for model usage—effectively ending unlimited prompting and making model complexity and token usage a direct factor in plan value.
SOURCES & TIMELINE
2The ChatGPT desktop app can be a confusing piece of software, given that there are ChatGPT and Codex sections, and within the former, there are Chat and Work tabs. With so many options, it’s sometimes easy to forget where you are working and where exactly your project is. In an apparent effort to address this, OpenAI is now gearing up to merge the Chat and Work tabs within the ChatGPT experience, according to an ema…
ChatGPT is merging Chat and Work, changing how usage limits work. Starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share a single token budget across ChatGPT and Codex, according to an updated OpenAI support page , as OpenAI folds Work's agentic features into the main interface. OpenAI had already announced plans to merge Chat and Work . Tokens measure the information a model processes and generates, so more…