While Open AI says the subscription is available in India, it appears the company has not tweaked the price to cater to the Indian market. That means users will need to pay in USD per month.
In Short
- Some users claim that, despite the availability of ChatGPT Plus subscription in India, the payment is not successful.
- It might be because of RBI norms that do not allow recurring subscriptions.
- Another user pointed out that a subscription for Indian customers is actually $23.60, which is roughly Rs 1,950.
ChatGPT Plus subscription is now available in India, the chatbot’s creator, Open AI, said in a tweet today. Open AI launched a ChatGPT Plus subscription in February for $20 per month (roughly Rs 1,650). It promises “faster response speed” and “priority access to new features.” Additionally, users will be able to use the AI chatbot even if “demand is high.” While Open AI says the subscription is available in India, it appears the company has not tweaked the price to cater to the Indian market. That means users will need to pay in USD per month to enjoy the benefits of the subscription.
Reacting to Open AI’s tweet, the CEO of Open AI, Sam Altman, said that the company “loves India.” Open AI is also working with Indian social media firm Koo to help users compose content without a hassle. The feature is slowly rolling out.
We all are aware of ChatGPT and how it has changed the market structure within a few weeks. It has been stated that ChatGPT Plus subscription has entered the Indian market. The creator of OpenAI disclosed the news through a tweet.
The OpenAI launched its ChatGPT Plus subscription in India, and the subscription will be priced at $20 per month (which is around Rs 1,650 per month).
Furthermore, the users will be able to use the chatbot based on AI, even if the demand is high. While OpenAI has said that the subscription is available in India and it looks like the company has not changed the price for the Indian market. This means users will be in need of paying in USD every month in order to enjoy the benefits of a subscription.
Although the feature of the chatbot is official in India, a few users have stated that the payment for the ChatGPT Plus subscription is not getting successful. And it has been said that the reason could be the norms of RBI which will not allow recurring subscriptions to the feature.
A Twitter user tweeted that he has been trying to get his subscription for ChatGPT Plus for almost ‘three-four’ days, but the payment gets declined every single time when he tries.
There was another user who stated that the subscription for Indian customers is priced at around USD 23.60, which is around Rs 1,950. This is because the government has levied USD 3.60 (which is around Rs 300) in foreign transactions.
Similarly, another user reacted to Altman’s tweet and replied that “$23 is a lot of money in India. A chatbot that costs 1/17th of median monthly income is kinda expensive.”
About ChatGPT Plus
ChatGPT Plus will also let the user experience the new GPT-4, which is the next-gen LLM (large language model) which also analyses the text inputs. Also, if a user is interested to experience the GPT-4 technology without paying a single dollar then Microsoft is coming out to rescue the user with its Bing AI.
Microsoft has further announced the rival of ChatGPT recently, the name Bing Chat or Bing AI. The Bing runs on GPT-4 tech and it is free to use in India, as it has been paired with some proprietary tech and it is further available in the app too.
Bing Chat was globally out in February, but it was earlier available to limited users and now it is rolling out for the masses, for free.
