ChatGPT Business Price per Seat with ChatGPT Team Pricing and Annual Cost

ChatGPT Business costs $20 per user per month for a Standard seat on an annual plan and $25 per user per month on a monthly plan. Premium seats cost $100 per user per month annually and $125 monthly. Annual billing saves $60 a seat a year on Standard and $300 a seat a year on Premium, which is a 20 percent discount on both.

Standard is the seat most people get. OpenAI describes it as best for everyday work and lists usage as unlimited subject to abuse guardrails. The Premium card's note that it has no 5 hour limit tells you the Standard seat has one. Premium gives 5x the usage of Standard and removes the 5 hour limit, so it is meant for the few people who live in ChatGPT all day: analysts running deep research, engineers in Codex, the person who builds your workspace agents.

On annual billing with Standard seats, ChatGPT Business costs $2,400 a year for 10 users, $12,000 for 50, $36,000 for 150 and $48,000 for 200. On monthly billing the same seats cost $3,000, $15,000, $45,000 and $60,000 a year.

The Premium column is the line to watch. One Premium seat costs as much as five Standard seats, so giving a tenth of the company Premium raises the bill by 40 percent.

Yes. ChatGPT Business is the current name of the plan OpenAI used to sell as ChatGPT Team. The sign up link on OpenAI's pricing page still points to chatgpt.com/team-sign-up and the help article it links still sits at a what-is-chatgpt-team address, which is why searches for ChatGPT Team pricing land on the Business price. If you are on an older Team subscription, the seat price you renew at is the Business price above.

The minimum is 2 users and the maximum is 200 paid seats per subscription. OpenAI's billing documentation states that since August 24, 2026 the limit is 200 paid Standard and Premium seats in total, that purchased but unassigned seats count toward it, and that its support team cannot raise it. Workspaces created before that date keep their previous seat limit. A company that expects to pass 200 people during the term should price Enterprise now rather than at renewal, because there is no larger Business tier to move into.

Business leaves out the controls larger IT teams usually ask for first: SCIM provisioning, role-based access controls, the Compliance API, IP allowlisting, Enterprise Key Management and data residency. OpenAI's comparison table marks all of these as Enterprise only, along with the ISO 27001 family certifications, the connector registry, invoicing and dedicated onboarding. Business does include SAML SSO, MFA, domain verification, an admin console, bulk member management, SOC 2 Type 2 and a default of no training on your business data.

For a 30 person company that list rarely matters. For a company with a security review, the missing SCIM and role-based access are often what pushes the purchase up to Enterprise even below 200 seats.

Partly. ChatGPT Business connects to Google Workspace, Slack, GitHub, Microsoft 365 and other apps, and its company knowledge feature answers from the apps each member has connected. OpenAI's connector documentation describes each person authenticating each provider individually, so the coverage of any answer depends on what that person linked. That works well for one person's own work. It is a weaker fit when the question is where the company already wrote something down, across apps nobody in particular connected.

That second job is what InSearch is for. An admin connects the company's apps once, every answer cites its sources, and results are filtered by each person's existing access in the source app. Many teams run both: ChatGPT Business for drafting and analysis, InSearch for finding answers across the company.