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Summary
- On August 25, OpenAI introduced the ChatGPT Business Premium seat, listing it as a $100 seat
- The accompanying image included the line "5x more usage than the Standard seat"
- Our outlet had confirmed on August 11 that the price was $125 per month, or $100 with annual billing — this new post doesn't specify a billing cycle
- 발표
- OpenAI 공식 계정, 2026-08-25 (ChatGPT Business Premium Seats)
- 게시물 표기 가격
- 프리미엄 좌석 100달러
- 사용량
- 스탠더드 좌석 대비 5배 (첨부 이미지 문구)
- 우리 지면 8월 11일 확인값
- 프리미엄 월 125달러(연간 결제 시 100달러), 스탠더드 월 25달러
- 안내 창구
- 챗GPT 요금 안내 페이지(type=team)
$100 for the Seat, 5x the Usage
On August 25, OpenAI officially introduced a Premium seat for ChatGPT Business. In the post, the company positioned the $100 Premium seat as an option for small businesses and startups, describing it as a plan that can scale up or down with team size. The accompanying image carried just one line of explanation — "5x more usage than the Standard seat."
One number here needs a closer look. This latest post lists the seat price simply as $100. But our outlet had confirmed on August 11 that it was $125 per month, or $100 with annual billing. Since the new post doesn't specify a billing cycle, we won't assume how the two figures relate.
Why Split Seats Into Tiers
ChatGPT Business is a team-based plan — you buy seats by headcount and distribute them among employees. Under the old model, every seat cost the same. Now OpenAI has added a higher-usage tier on top of that structure.
The shift comes down to how people actually use ChatGPT these days. Back when it was one question, one answer, usage was fairly even across users. That's no longer true. Once agents — where the model handles a task across multiple steps on its own, based on a person's instructions — start fixing code, searching the web, or drafting documents, one person's daily compute load can end up dozens of times higher than the person next to them. When OpenAI rolled out the Premium seat in August, it cited exactly this: growing agentic workloads driving up token consumption. At the time, the confirmed terms showed the Premium seat has no 5-hour usage cap, usage resets weekly, and Standard and Premium seats can be mixed within a single workspace.
The pricing trends here are pulling in two different directions. Token prices sold through the API keep falling — OpenAI cut both input and output token prices for GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% in August. But for seats sold per person, a new higher tier has just appeared. Individual API calls get cheaper, while heavy users on seat-based plans end up paying more. Pricing is being redrawn along those lines.
What Changes for Teams
In practice, this announcement changes how teams buy seats. Instead of upgrading an entire workspace to the higher tier, companies can now keep just a handful of seats — say, for developers or researchers running agents all day — on Premium, while leaving everyone else on Standard. It's probably worth watching where usage actually piles up for a month before deciding who to upgrade.
According to domestic reporting, global AI companies have been opening subsidiaries and offices in Korea one after another, targeting the enterprise market. How team-based pricing gets split into tiers is a question that will soon show up in contracts for Korean teams too. If you're reviewing seat options, it's worth checking the ChatGPT pricing page directly, opening the team plan section to see the exact billing-cycle terms and seat conditions.
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