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ChatGPT Team is OpenAI's self-serve, multi-seat subscription plan for ChatGPT, built for small and medium-sized teams that want a shared workspace, an admin console, higher usage limits, and a default guarantee that their business data is not used to train OpenAI's models. Announced on January 10, 2024, it sits in price and capability between the individual ChatGPT Plus plan and the larger ChatGPT Enterprise offering, and it can be purchased directly on the ChatGPT website with a minimum of two seats rather than through a sales contract. [1][2] OpenAI renamed the plan to ChatGPT Business on August 29, 2025, while keeping its core features and structure intact. [3]
OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Team to fill the gap between its consumer plan and its large-organization product. Enterprise, launched in August 2023, was sold through OpenAI's sales team, typically required a minimum of around 150 seats, and carried a twelve-month contract; the individual Plus plan, by contrast, covered only a single user. [2] ChatGPT Team was instead a self-serve plan that any small group could purchase directly through the ChatGPT website, with a minimum of two users and support for workspaces of up to 149 people. [1][2]
The plan gave every member of a workspace access to OpenAI's then-current advanced models, a collaborative environment for sharing work, and a set of admin tools for managing the group. As with Enterprise, OpenAI committed that it would not use a Team workspace's business data or conversations to train its models by default. In its launch announcement, OpenAI stated that it "won't train models on your business data or conversations," and the company's data policy specifies that "by default, we do not train on any inputs or outputs from our products for business users, including ChatGPT Team, ChatGPT Enterprise, and the API." [1][9]
Strategically, the launch addressed a segment that OpenAI's existing offerings had left uncovered. Many small businesses, departments, and project groups wanted the data protections, shared resources, and centralized billing of a managed plan but were too small to justify an Enterprise contract or too collaborative to rely on individual Plus subscriptions. By making the plan self-serve and setting the minimum at two seats, OpenAI let such groups adopt a managed version of ChatGPT in minutes rather than through a sales process. [1][2]
At launch, ChatGPT Team included the following capabilities: [1][2]
The launch coincided with the debut of the GPT Store, OpenAI's marketplace for custom GPTs, which became available to Plus, Team, and Enterprise subscribers on the same day. [1][5]
Over time the model lineup and tooling available to the plan were refreshed as OpenAI released newer systems, a pattern the company continued after the product was rebranded as ChatGPT Business. [3]
The plan expanded well beyond its 2024 feature set. In June 2025, OpenAI added connectors and record mode to ChatGPT Team and Enterprise: connectors let members pull data from third-party tools such as Google Drive, Dropbox, SharePoint, Box, and OneDrive without leaving ChatGPT, while record mode records and transcribes meetings to assist with follow-up. [8] On August 7, 2025, GPT-5 became the default model in ChatGPT and was made available to Team accounts alongside Free, Plus, and Pro, with usage limits varying by plan. [10] By 2026, standard ChatGPT Business (formerly Team) seats included access to GPTs, Projects, Apps, Company Knowledge, ChatGPT Agent, Deep Research, and Codex. [6]
ChatGPT Team launched with two billing options, both charged per user. [1][2]
| Billing option | Price at launch (per user per month) |
|---|---|
| Monthly | About $30 |
| Annual | About $25 |
A workspace required a minimum of two paid seats. [1][2] The plan's pricing remained stable through the August 2025 rename to ChatGPT Business. [3] OpenAI later reduced the rates: under the ChatGPT Business name the plan was offered at about $25 per user per month billed monthly and about $20 per user per month billed annually, while the two-seat minimum for standard seats remained in place. [6]
ChatGPT Team occupied the middle of OpenAI's lineup of paid ChatGPT plans. The table below summarizes how it compared to the neighboring tiers as described at and shortly after its launch. [1][2]
| Attribute | ChatGPT Plus | ChatGPT Team | ChatGPT Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audience | Individuals | Small and medium teams | Large organizations |
| Price (per user per month) | About $20 | About $30 monthly / $25 annual at launch | Custom (reported starting around $60) |
| Minimum seats | 1 | 2 | About 150 |
| Purchasing | Self-serve | Self-serve | Sales contract (about 12 months) |
| Shared workspace and admin console | No | Yes | Yes |
| Message limits on top models | Standard | Higher than Plus | Highest (unlimited high-speed access) |
| Training on your data | Used unless opted out | Not used by default | Not used |
| Enterprise SSO and SCIM | No | No | Yes |
Plus, priced at about $20 per month, was a single-user plan without the shared workspace or admin tooling. [2] Enterprise added enterprise-grade administration, single sign-on (SAML SSO), SCIM provisioning, domain verification, expanded context windows, and the highest usage limits, but was sold through OpenAI's sales team under a contract. [2]
A fourth business-oriented tier, ChatGPT Edu, was announced in May 2024 for colleges and universities. Powered by GPT-4o, it offered Enterprise-style security and privacy controls at pricing aimed at educational institutions, distinguishing it from the general-purpose Team plan. [7]
OpenAI renamed ChatGPT Team to ChatGPT Business on August 29, 2025. The company described it as a name change only, intended to better communicate how customers use the product, and said that features, pricing, and limits remained the same at the time, with existing contracts and terms staying in effect. [3] Invoices and receipts subsequently listed ChatGPT Business in place of ChatGPT Team. [3]
Coverage of the launch framed ChatGPT Team as OpenAI's move to capture the small-business and team market that sat between individual subscribers and large enterprise customers. TechCrunch described it as a subscription "aimed at small teams," noting that it lowered the barrier to multi-seat ChatGPT use by removing the large minimum-seat counts and contract commitments associated with Enterprise. [2]
The launch arrived as workplace adoption of ChatGPT was expanding. Commentators highlighted the no-code custom GPTs and the shared workspace as the plan's main draws for teams that wanted to standardize how colleagues used the assistant. OpenAI later reported rapid growth in paying business users across its Team, Enterprise, and Edu products, reaching three million paying business users by June 2025, up from two million in February 2025. [8] In August 2025 OpenAI rebranded ChatGPT Team as ChatGPT Business, a change the company said was intended to communicate the product's purpose more clearly while preserving its self-serve model, shared workspace, and data-privacy commitments. [3] By November 5, 2025, OpenAI said more than one million business customers were paying for its products and that ChatGPT for Work (its umbrella for the Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans) had surpassed seven million seats, up 40 percent in two months, with Enterprise seats growing ninefold year over year. [11]