Ultimately the calculation comes down to 1 and 0. For example: If you add an extra 0 onto the $20 price of ChatGPT Plus, you will have the cost of ChatGPT Pro—the newest premium tier of OpenAI’s chatbot platform that offers access to the company’s new “reasoning” model.
The new subscription option, marketed to engineers and researchers, will cost $200 per month and offer unlimited use of the company’s GPT-4o and o1 models, as well as full access to the o1 model’s “pro mode,” designed to imitate the human being. reasoning to answer more complex questions. The announcement was made as part of the “12 days of Shipmas” during which it plans to show off 12 new products ahead of the holiday season.
OpenAI expected o1 earlier this year with limited access to the o1-preview and o1-mini models, previously known by the code name Strawberry. THE Next-generation large language models showcased the company’s new approach to complex calculations through chain-of-thought reasoning. In essence it is a chatbot capable of “thinking” before answering questions. While chatbots operating on models like GPT-4o or GPT-4 might require suggestions and questions to provide a meaningful response, o1 is designed to do all the work behind the scenes before responding.
The results, according to the company benchmarking teststhey are impressive. OpenAI says the o1 model scored 89th percentile in programming competitions hosted by Codeforces and was able to correctly answer 83% of questions on an International Mathematics Olympiad qualifying test. In contrast, GPT-4o managed to achieve only 14% positive results.
But the model also has its fair share of flaws. It is slower and more expensive than the GPT-4o and other models. In the preview version of o1, input tokens-essentially units of text that the model uses to parse a prompt-cost approx three times the price of the tokens for GPT-4o. A o1 analysis conducted by AI development platform Vellum found that the reasoning model is 30 times slower than its predecessor.
Reviews of the model also found that, although it appears more capable of tackling complex mathematical problems and programming tasks, it is no better, and in some cases worse, at answering simple questions. Indeed, The help of OpenAI pages admit: “GPT-4o is still the best option for most prompts.”
Of course, the new ChatGPT Pro subscription gives users access to both the GPT-4o reasoning model and the new o1 model, so you can always switch between options based on your needs. Or, alternatively, you could spend $200 on anything else.
