ChatGPT Plus costs $20 per month. You're probably asking yourself: Why pay when you can use it for free? There are five main advantages, but the TL;DR is that the free tier has heavy usage limits, and the Plus tier gets you the latest features and models first.

ChatGPT Plus users not only get an improved GPT-5 experience that lets you pick from a few use cases, you also get some older legacy models.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently revealed that users are attached to GPT-5's predecessors for emotional support, further claiming that they've perhaps never experienced that before.

GPT-5 is a big deal, but don't underestimate the power of these smaller feature upgrades - especially new access to Advance Voice Mode for free users.

OpenAI announced that it has added connectors to Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts for ChatGPT Plus users, enabling ChatGPT to use data from those apps within ChatGPT chats. A connector is a bridge between ChatGPT and an external app like Canva,