OpenAI is adding a new seat type to its business plan, ChatGPT Business: Premium. According to the company, the most frequent request from Business customers was an expanded seat option with more capacity and usage built in.

The prices

  • Premium seat: $125 per user per month, or $100 per user per month billed annually
  • Standard seat: $25 per user per month, or $20 per user per month billed annually

Both seat types can be mixed in the same workspace, with a separate choice for each person on the team.

For a limited time, eligible workspace owners who sign up early receive $100 worth of workspace credits (2,500 credits) for every Premium seat they add, up to $500 for five seats. Some customers may also receive early access before Premium becomes generally available.

What Premium buys

The entire difference sits in capacity:

  • Five times the usage of a Standard seat
  • Removal of the five-hour usage limit
  • Predictable weekly usage resets

If a usage limit is still reached, businesses can add shared workspace credits managed by the workspace owner.

The admin side

Workspace owners and admins can mix Standard and Premium seats across the same team, upgrade or reassign seats as business needs change, monitor usage across the workspace, and manage billing, usage and spend limits in one place.

The company's emphasis is that this happens without creating separate subscriptions: the work stays inside the same secure workspace.

What the number means

$125 a month sits high in enterprise software pricing. For reference it is exactly five times the Standard seat — and what it delivers is exactly five times the usage. The pricing is linear: OpenAI is not selling a feature here, it is selling capacity.

That points to a pattern settling into AI products. Usage limits are becoming the product itself, and customers choose a plan based not on what it can do but on how much of it they can do. Listing the removal of the five-hour limit as a separate line item makes the same point: interruption has become a sellable problem.

Who it is for

The use cases the company describes also reveal the target audience: business owners turning sales reports, customer feedback and inventory data into an operating plan; marketers building whole campaigns from customer insights; developers using Codex to build, test and improve features across larger codebases.

What they share is that all of them are long-running tasks with little tolerance for interruption. That is precisely what the Premium seat sells: uninterrupted work.