As the title says, I’m trying to confirm whether the price for ChatGPT plus is now shown in Canadian dollars when buying from Canada. Here’s a screenshot from the iOS app. Thanks in advance!
PS - I’ve searched this question online and on reddit and could not find an answer.
Every source says chatgpt pro is 200 usd, but the app is saying from my phone that chatgpt pro is $250 a month billed monthly but it doesnt state what currency. Usually i get billed 20 in usd then its converted to CAD later and i see about 32 cad in my bank statements. Im wondering if chatgpt pro is at a reduced pricing for canadians ( 250 cad equivelent to 178 usd ) or an increased usd pricing for canadians ( 250 usd equivelent to 353 canadian ) because its completely unclear. Also if anyone has bought gpt pro in canada, how much did you get billed?
The form would only accept a U.S. shipping address, and said this is the location you’ll be using the service from. I was accessing ChatGTP in a VM running in an Azure data center in the U.S., so I looked up its address and used that.
The Billing address section would accept Canadian addresses, so I used my real address in Canada.
When I tried to finish the transaction, my card was declined, even though there’s nothing wrong with expiry date or available balance.
Any ideas?
UPDATE: An OpenAI employee on Twitter (Adam.GPT) told me it's not yet available in Canada :(
I make about 5-10 queries a day from cooking instructions to coding. I think chatgpt is too expensive. 20$ a month is more expensive than a netflix subscription. I think it should be 5-10 a month. Maybe even bundled like spotify (a subscription with a 5$ option btw). I feel that this company is obviously hemorrhaging money and there is an untapped market (students) who would totally get this bundled with github pro or even spotify. I know some will disagree with me here and say that it isnt expensive or that its worth it, but thinking from a logical perspective. Chatgpt had a real chance to integrate itself into the daily life for the average internet user that doesnt code and capture them with a reasonable subscription as if they were paying for spotify. The average user will not pay 20$ as they would compare that subscription to others of similar prices like netflix, WoW, gym memberships…all subscriptions that take hours of a person’s time in a month vs chatgpt where the average retention would be significantly less.
edit: turns out I was right about them hemmoraging money
edit 2: Turns out targeting students WAS the right way to go. They have now made chatgpt free for students until may (They implemented this in feb I think)
$42 pays for 2,100,000 tokens with davinci, (assuming we went with similar pricing for chatGPT).
The average reading speed is around 250 WPM, (though thats peak, more relaxed reading is probably around 100-150). It would take the average person ~120 hours (5 days straight) just to read through that much text, let alone spend time manipulating it, copy pasting, editing, waiting for the response to finish, etc.
You certainly would need to be a heavy user to justify that price tag.
If we redo this with a more reasonable effective 100 WPM, we are at 300 (12.5 days) reading/editing/waiting for generation hours.
Even if you are literally using it all of the time that you are at work, you would need to be working 70 hours per week (all of it related to chatGPT) to justify using it at that price.
Alternatively, if you make 50 bucks an hour (reasonable if you work in academia/research/tech) and it saves you an hour a month, it is worth it.
Davinci doesn't keep context so you'll need to use up a lot of tokens just pasting the entire conversation in order to have it keep context like chatGPT does.
In addition there are other considerations you aren't taking into account. For example, I want to use chatGPT to summarize news articles. That will use up tokens very quickly in order to provide the whole article to chatGPT while I can quickly read the summaries that result.
Whether the price is justified depends on what you want to do with it. Personally, I'd pay several times more for chatGPT over Davinci.
Seriously, this question has been throwing me into mini fits of panic when I consider how indispensable this tool has become and how often every day I'm using it.
What would be the monthly price tag you would pay for unlimited usage?
(btw i hate token-based pricing like in the regular GPT-3 app, so if it turns into that i'm probably out.)
If we use ChatGPT as a personal assistant, then I think token-based pricing like in the regular GPT-3 is cheap. If we use ChatGPT as API to build our service, it will need more thinking.
I’d love it to have a monthly unlimited subscription.
I never want to write code again without it. It takes out all the tedious work from coding. All the searching on stack overflow. If you are writing in many languages it makes it so easy to write in an idiomatic way. My work related Google queries have dropped by 85-90%. The code has syntax and algorithmic errors some times. But those are rare and can be spotted with code reviewing.
One of the things that had me in tears of joy is the ability to give it code and ask it to write unit tests… I mean the most boring and neglected part of coding gone!
I understand the worry. But I’ve never used any software that transformed my workflow as much. Search engines and good ides are the closest.
So at this point I’d pay 100$ per month for it. I hope they have a pricing model that keeps it accessible by everyone, even if that means that they charge more for professional use like mine