OpenAI Losing Money on a $200/Month Subscription…

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, just posted on X that the company is losing money on their pricey $200/month/seat ChatGPT Pro subscription – apparently due to subscribers using the product more than anticipated.

CleanShot 2025-01-06 at 08.51.12@2x.

This might come as a surprise to some or many – especially given that ChatGPT Pro is ten times as expensive as the standard subscription. We can safely assume that OpenAI is not making money on the standard plan – their losing money on the Pro plan is indicative of how expensive it is to run a frontier AI model and a good indicator of how unsustainable the current wave of frontier AI companies really is.

I guess “to be continued”…

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Pascal Finette @radical