ChatGPT finally offers $100/month Pro plan
THE SO WHAT
The pricing ladder just got a middle rung — OpenAI is segmenting serious individual operators from true enterprise, not just raising ARPU. If your internal tools still assume $20/month assistants, your unit economics and usage thresholds are already stale.
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