ToolsAugust 11, 2026via The Decoder
OpenAI introduces $125 Premium Seats for ChatGPT Business as agentic AI burns through more tokens
Why it matters
OpenAI is abandoning flat-rate pricing for enterprise AI, introducing tiered capacity tiers that reflect real token burn from agentic workloads. Practitioners budgeting ChatGPT deployment need to rethink per-seat economics immediately.
Key signals
- Premium Seats priced at $125/user/month (5x Standard Seats)
- Premium tier removes five-hour usage limit
- Standard Seats pricing not specified in excerpt but implied as ~$25/user/month
- Move signals end of flat-rate AI pricing model
- Timing tied to agentic AI token consumption surge
- Product tier: ChatGPT Business (enterprise product)
- Published: August 11, 2026
The hook
$125/month. OpenAI just 5x'd the price of ChatGPT Business — and it's already selling.
OpenAI is rolling out "Premium Seats" for ChatGPT Business customers at $125 per user per month, five times the price of the existing Standard Seats. In return, users get significantly more capacity and no five-hour usage limit. The move signals that the flat-rate pricing AI providers have offered s…