OpenAI offers free ChatGPT Plus to college students just before finals week, escalating competition with Anthropic's Claude as tech giants battle for dominance in the $80 billion education AI market.

The upgraded ChatGPT Plus tier usually costs $20 a month, and opens up access to ChatGPT’s advanced Deep Research model, the upgraded GPT-4.5 preview, and extends the limits imposed on users accessing the free tools (so you can send more prompts and upload more files before you hit your cap).

ChatGPT Plus has new features like Deep Research and GPT-4.5 access but they're limited - here's how to figure out what you can do.

OpenAI will now make its premium ChatGPT Plus subscription available at no cost to college students in the US and Canada through the end of May, providing students with free access to advanced AI capabilities that are typically behind a paywall,

ChatGPT Pro is 10 times the price of ChatGPT Plus. Is either worth the money or should you stick to the free version? Here's how to decide.

Sam Altman made ChatGPT Plus available to US and Canadian students for free until the end of May - what's the deal about?

Following the release of rival Anthropic's Claude for Education, OpenAI has announced that its $20 ChatGPT Plus tier will be free for college students until the end of May. The offer comes just in time for final exams and will provide features like OpenAI's most advanced LLM,

OpenAI says that it plans to release both o3 and a next-generation successor, o4-mini, in weeks, following by GPT-5 a few months after.