OpenAI Launches $4.6 Budget AI Subscription Tier in India
(Monday August 18, 2025 @11:33PM (msmash)
from the search-for-billion-users dept.)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/19/0333218/openai-launches-46-budget-ai-subscription-tier-in-india
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OpenAI has launched [1]ChatGPT Go , a [2]$4.57 monthly subscription tier initially available only in India . The service provides, compared to the free tier, extended access to GPT-5, image generation, file uploads, advanced data analysis, longer conversation memory, and custom GPTs at Rs 399 per month. ChatGPT Go excludes features found in the $20 ChatGPT Plus tier including legacy models like 4o, Sora video generation, deep research, agent mode, and connectors. OpenAI said "other countries and regions may be eligible in the future" for ChatGPT Go.
India has emerged as a key market for American technology firms looking for users. In the past 15 years, firms like Amazon, Google, and Meta, alongside venture capitalists and private equity, have poured more than $200 billion into the country, all chasing its vast pool of users and the businesses serving this population. India is the second largest market for OpenAI, startup's chief executive Sam Altman said in a podcast recently. Perplexity partnered with Indian telecoms giant Bharti Airtel last month to provide its premium Pro service to [3]360 million customers for free for an entire year .
[1] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11989085-what-is-chatgpt-go
[2] https://nerds.xyz/2025/08/openai-chatgpt-go-india/
[3] https://indiadispatch.com/p/perplexity-pro-airtel-free-india
India has emerged as a key market for American technology firms looking for users. In the past 15 years, firms like Amazon, Google, and Meta, alongside venture capitalists and private equity, have poured more than $200 billion into the country, all chasing its vast pool of users and the businesses serving this population. India is the second largest market for OpenAI, startup's chief executive Sam Altman said in a podcast recently. Perplexity partnered with Indian telecoms giant Bharti Airtel last month to provide its premium Pro service to [3]360 million customers for free for an entire year .
[1] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11989085-what-is-chatgpt-go
[2] https://nerds.xyz/2025/08/openai-chatgpt-go-india/
[3] https://indiadispatch.com/p/perplexity-pro-airtel-free-india
Still not worth it. (Score:2)
by shm ( 235766 )
I have Perplexity Pro free for a year thanks to Airtel, and Grok thanks to X.
Competition is good.
Petition (Score:1)
Petition to exclude India from the real Internet and give them a simulacrum created in realtime by API calls to LLMs and Stable Diffusion.