OpenAI’s affordable ChatGPT Go plan expands to 16 new countries in Asia

OpenAI is rapidly expanding its affordable ChatGPT Go plan, which costs nether $5, to 16 caller countries crossed Asia. The subscription tier is present disposable successful Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, East Timor, and Vietnam.

In prime countries specified arsenic Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Pakistan, the institution is allowing users to wage successful section currencies. In the remaining countries, users indispensable wage successful USD astatine a terms of astir $5, with the last outgo varying based connected section taxation.

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ChatGPT Go gives users higher regular limits for messages, representation generation, and record oregon representation uploads per day. The program besides offers doubly arsenic overmuch representation arsenic the escaped plan, enabling much personalized responses.

According to OpenAI, the enlargement comes arsenic the institution has seen its play progressive idiosyncratic basal successful Southeast Asia turn by up to 4 times. The program was archetypal launched successful India successful August, followed by Indonesia successful September. OpenAI reports that paid subscribers successful India person doubled since the launch.

OpenAI is competing with Google to marque affordable AI chatbot subscription plans disposable successful much regions. Google launched its likewise priced Google AI Plus program successful Indonesia successful September, followed by expansion to implicit 40 countries. The Plus tier gives users entree to Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google’s astir precocious AI model, on with originative tools for representation and video instauration — including Flow (for design), Whisk (for representation remixing), and Veo 3 Fast (for video creation) — arsenic good arsenic 200GB of unreality storage.

The enlargement comes astatine a pivotal infinitesimal for OpenAI. At its DevDay 2025 league this week successful San Francisco, CEO Sam Altman announced that ChatGPT has reached 800 cardinal play progressive users globally, up from 700 cardinal successful August. The institution besides unveiled a large level shift, introducing apps that enactment straight wrong ChatGPT and that alteration the chatbot into an ecosystem that’s akin to an app store, with partners similar Spotify, Zillow, and Coursera, among others.

“The improvement we’re trying to marque implicit the adjacent fewer years is 1 wherever ChatGPT itself is much similar an operating strategy wherever you tin travel and usage applications,” the caput of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, told TechCrunch of the improvement connected the outskirts of the event. “If you privation to write, there’s an app for that. If you privation to code, there’s an app for that. If you privation to interact with goods and services, determination are applications for you.”

Despite OpenAI’s accelerated maturation and caller $500 cardinal valuation, the institution reported a $7.8 cardinal operating nonaccomplishment successful the archetypal fractional of 2025 arsenic it continues spending heavy connected AI infrastructure. The company’s affordable subscription tiers, similar ChatGPT Go, are seen arsenic an important measurement toward achieving profitability portion expanding its planetary idiosyncratic base, peculiarly successful high-growth markets crossed Asia wherever some OpenAI and Google are aggressively competing for marketplace share.