OpenAI adds flexible enterprise pricing

OpenAI has changed how it sells ChatGPT to organizations, adding flexible pricing to Enterprise, Edu, and Business plans instead of relying only on fixed seat licenses. (help.openai.com) The shift took effect on April 2, 2026, when OpenAI said ChatGPT Business and ChatGPT Enterprise would support two seat types: a standard ChatGPT seat and a new Codex-only seat. OpenAI said the change is meant to match different usage and procurement needs inside the same workspace. (help.openai.com) OpenAI’s help documentation says credits now unlock extra access to features including Deep Research, thinking models, image generation, Advanced Voice, and Codex, with different usage models by plan. Business keeps per-seat limits for advanced features, while Enterprise and Edu can use credit-based billing tied to usage. (help.openai.com) For Enterprise, OpenAI said new workspaces now use token-based rates, while existing Enterprise customers stay on a legacy message-based system until migration. New and existing Edu, ChatGPT for Teachers, and ChatGPT for Healthcare workspaces also remain on legacy message-based rates for now. (help.openai.com) OpenAI is also separating coding access from full ChatGPT access. Its Enterprise help page says the new Codex seat offers codex-only access, and the Codex rate card now uses token-based pricing billed in credits per million tokens for new Enterprise customers. (help.openai.com) That change lines up with OpenAI’s broader push to sell ChatGPT as a workplace platform with different roles, not just a chatbot subscription sold one employee at a time. OpenAI’s pricing page still lists Business at $20 per user per month on annual billing and says Enterprise is sold on annual contracts, but the new help pages add usage-based layers on top of those plan structures. (openai.com) (help.openai.com) The release notes show OpenAI is still shipping team features around that model. In late March and early April, the company added updated Box, Notion, Linear, and Dropbox apps for Enterprise and Edu, and expanded Outlook and shared mailbox actions for Business admins and users. (help.openai.com 1) (help.openai.com 2) OpenAI also published a new ChatGPT rate card for Business and Enterprise or Edu customers under the flexible pricing structure. That page says it covers current rates for ChatGPT models and features, while Codex has its own separate rate card. (help.openai.com) In a separate post last week, OpenAI said Codex now offers pay-as-you-go pricing for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise teams, and named Notion, Ramp, Braintrust, and Wasmer as early users. The company framed the pricing change as a way for teams to start small and expand usage as more employees adopt coding tools. (openai.com) The result is a pricing system that now mixes seats, credits, and token-based billing across OpenAI’s workplace plans, with migration happening in stages rather than all at once. OpenAI’s own help pages say existing customers on older pricing will move over later, not immediately. (help.openai.com 1) (help.openai.com 2)