Now You Can Use Almost All of ChatGPT for Free
OpenAI continues to expand the capabilities available to users of the free ChatGPT. The company started by making its newest model, GPT-4o, generally free for all users (though there are restrictions if you don’t pay), and now it’s expanded the availability of core 4o features by removing paywalls for file downloads, vision (which can use camera for input) and GPT (or custom chatbots). Viewing, data analysis and memory, which were previously also paid functions, were already available to free users in equally limited capabilities.
OpenAI has been clear about its plans to expand the offerings its free users can take advantage of since it first unveiled GPT-4o a few weeks ago, and it’s still delivering on its promises. These changes make paying for ChatGPT Plus even less of a concern for many, which is surprisingly good for OpenAI. More users means more usage testing, which will only help improve models using ChatGPT.
Of course, the free version of ChatGPT will still have usage restrictions. Once you reach these limits you will revert to GPT 3.5 as OpenAI has not made GPT 4 or GPT 4 Turbo available in the free tier. Despite this, some paying users aren’t entirely happy with the change, and many are wondering what the point of ChatGPT Plus is now .
Paid users still receive five times more messages with GPT-4o than free users, but that hasn’t stopped some from going on social media and asking questions like, “What about paid users?” and “what do paid users get? False hopes for GPT5.”
ChatGPT Plus subscribers still get access to the ability to create their own GPTs, and from everything we know so far, Plus users are the only ones who will receive the upcoming 4o voice mode, although this could certainly change in the future.
Giving more people access to ChatGPT’s best features puts the chatbot on par with one of its biggest competitors, Claude , which gives free users access to the latest version of its artificial intelligence model (albeit through a less powerful version of that model).