ChatGPT Business Upgraded
OpenAI has updated ChatGPT Business with team-focused features like shared projects, project-scoped memory and workspace controls, and it added a GPT-5-codex model aimed at coding and agentic engineering tasks. The release is positioned as packaging for enterprise workflows rather than a consumer chat toy. (help.openai.com)
OpenAI updated ChatGPT Business on April 2 with new team features and a new Codex seat aimed at coding work inside company workspaces. (help.openai.com) The biggest packaging change is how the plan is sold. ChatGPT Business now has two seat types: a standard seat that includes ChatGPT and Codex, and a usage-based Codex-only seat with no fixed monthly cost and no minimum purchase. (help.openai.com) OpenAI also cut the price of standard ChatGPT Business seats by $5 a month on April 2. In most countries, that puts the listed price at $25 per user monthly or $20 per user monthly if billed annually, with a two-seat minimum. (help.openai.com) The collaboration piece is Projects, which works like a shared folder for ongoing work. Teams can keep chats, files, and project-specific instructions in one place, and Business, Enterprise, and Education users can share those projects with teammates. (help.openai.com) Those project instructions are scoped to the project, not the whole account. OpenAI says they override a user’s global custom instructions inside that project, which gives teams a way to keep a launch plan, research brief, or coding task on one set of rules. (help.openai.com) The plan is also being tied more tightly to workplace software. On March 27, OpenAI rolled out updated Box, Notion, Linear, and Dropbox apps for ChatGPT Business, including new write actions where supported. (help.openai.com) On April 8, it added delegated Outlook features for shared mailboxes and shared calendars. With the right Microsoft permissions, users can ask ChatGPT to read and move shared email or create and update shared calendar events, while admins can control which actions are enabled. (help.openai.com) The model lineup shows the same shift toward work tasks over general chat. OpenAI’s Business documentation says standard seats include Codex, which it describes as its agentic coding platform, while the Business models page now centers newer GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.2 options after retiring older GPT-5 and GPT-4o variants from ChatGPT. (help.openai.com 1) (help.openai.com 2) That makes the update less about a single flashy model launch than about turning ChatGPT Business into a managed workspace with billing controls, app permissions, shared context, and separate seats for employees who mainly need coding agents. (help.openai.com)
