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ChatGPT Business

OpenAIteam
$25 / per seat
$20 billed annually
Last checked: 2026-10-27
First limit you hit
5–45 Codex messages per 5-hour window
Equivalent API value
$26Priced on GPT-6 Astra
Value multiple
1.05×
When it runs out
—
Scenario
Interactive use only

Allowances

Vendor publishes no figure

weekly limit, figure not published

›The vendor's own wording
"Local messages and cloud chats share your plan's usage allowance. Weekly limits may also apply." The page gives no weekly figure for any plan.
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Narrowed for specific models

These are not extra limits. Each one lowers the plan-wide allowance above for a single model, so the plan is worth what its best-covered model can spend, not this figure.

GPT-6 Astra5–45Codex messages per 5-hour window
›The vendor's own wording
The usage-limits table gives Standard Business / GPT-6 Astra as "5-45" messages per 5-hour window.
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GPT-6.1 Sol15–160Codex messages per 5-hour window
›The vendor's own wording
The usage-limits table gives Standard Business / GPT-6.1 Sol as "15-160" messages per 5-hour window.
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GPT-6 Sol15–150Codex messages per 5-hour window
›The vendor's own wording
The usage-limits table gives Standard Business / GPT-6 Sol as "15-150" messages per 5-hour window.
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GPT-6 Luna350–3,000Codex messages per 5-hour window
›The vendor's own wording
The usage-limits table gives Standard Business / GPT-6 Luna as "350-3,000" messages per 5-hour window.
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Models included

ModelCapabilityBurn rate
GPT-6 Astraown cap 5–45untiered—
GPT-6.1 Solown cap 15–160untiered—
GPT-6 Solown cap 15–150untiered—
GPT-6 Lunaown cap 350–3,000untiered—

Subscription versus your own API key

This compares two ways of working the same way — in an IDE or CLI, where BYOK tools make a direct API key a real option. It is not a claim that subscriptions are cheaper than the API in general.

ModelEffective price / 1M tokensvs API rateBreakeven
GPT-6 Astrauntiered$8.420.952.8M
GPT-6.1 Soluntiered$2.810.988.7M
GPT-6 Soluntiered$2.811.5914.1M
GPT-6 Lunauntiered$0.121.36282.7M

Usage terms

Quoted from the vendor's own terms. We do not give legal advice.

The Terms of Use, under "What you cannot do", state: "You may not use our Services for any illegal, harmful, or abusive activity. For example, you may not: ... Automatically or programmatically extract data or Output (defined below)." The same list also prohibits users from "circumvent any rate limits or restrictions or bypass any protective measures or safety mitigations we put on our Services". Note that the clause carries no carve-out for API access — the exemption is not in the wording, so the separation rests on billing rather than on the prohibition itself: OpenAI's pricing page attaches the Codex allowances above to the ChatGPT Business plan and offers API access as a separate option, "Pay for Codex usage based on API pricing".

Change history

  1. 2026-10-14Recorded from the seed file
  2. 2026-10-05Recorded from the seed file
  3. 2026-07-28Recorded from the seed file
  4. 2026-07-27quota message/5h approved
  5. 2026-07-27quota message/5h approved
  6. 2026-07-27Recorded from the seed file
  7. 2026-07-27Recorded from the seed file
  8. 2026-07-27Recorded from the seed file