Key features

GPT-5 model family with reasoning, browsing, vision and code interpreter
Advanced Voice Mode with video and screen-sharing on Plus and above
Image generation via integrated DALL-E and Sora video on Plus and Pro
Custom GPTs: build, share and discover task-specific assistants
Memory across chats with manual control
Deep Research: agentic multi-step web research on Plus (limited) and Pro (250/mo)
Native apps for Mac, Windows, iOS and Android with system-wide shortcuts

Pros & cons

Pros

Free tier is genuinely usable for most writers (GPT-5 access with daily caps, no card required)
Best-in-class general-purpose conversation and reasoning across writing, code and analysis
Advanced Voice Mode with video and screen-sharing is unique at $20/mo on Plus
Massive ecosystem: 3M+ Custom GPTs, native iOS/Android/Mac/Windows apps, Zapier and 1000+ integrations
Multimodal in one interface: text, image gen (Sora-tier on Pro), file analysis, code interpreter, browsing

Cons

No built-in plagiarism checker, no SEO mode, no use-case templates (vs Rytr 40+ or Copy.ai 90+)
Free tier rate-limits hit fast on long sessions (drops to a smaller model after ~10 GPT-5 messages in 5 hours)
Output is detected as AI by GPTZero and Originality.ai at high rates without manual editing or humanizers
No native brand voice training in the writing UX - you have to build a Custom GPT or paste guidelines each session

ChatGPT pricing plans
Plan	Price	Features
Free	Free Forever free, account required	GPT-5 with limited messages per day, Standard voice mode, Limited image generation and file uploads, Limited memory and Deep Research, Custom GPTs (use only, no creation)
Plus	$20/mo $20/mo, no annual discount	Extended GPT-5 limits (about 5x Free), Advanced Voice Mode with video and screen-sharing, Custom GPTs creation and sharing, Standard Deep Research and Sora video access, Higher image generation limits and file uploads
Pro	$200/mo $200/mo, no annual discount, individual seat only	Near-unlimited access to GPT-5 and reasoning models, GPT-5 Pro mode with extended compute for harder reasoning, 250 Deep Research runs per month, Priority access to Operator, Codex agent, and Sora, 1M-token context window on supported models
Business	$25/mo $25/user/mo billed annually or $30/user/mo monthly, was Team before Aug 2025 rename	Everything in Plus per seat with higher limits, Admin console, SSO, SCIM and workspace controls, Connectors to Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint, GitHub, Data excluded from training by default, Shared custom GPTs and workspace knowledge