Is OpenAI ChatGPT Go worth it in August 2026?

Updated August 20, 2026 · Codex · checked 2026-08-20

Yes, on the arithmetic. $8 a month buys up to $199 of usage, which is 24.9 times the price.

Subsidy multiple
24.9x
$8 a month against a ceiling of $199 at OpenAI's own API rates. 0.4x the ChatGPT Plus figure, using the vendor's own published multiple. The tier it scales from was measured.

What you actually get

The plan allows 0.4 times the allowance of ChatGPT Plus per week.

CLI, IDE and web Codex draw from one shared message allowance

The models behind it

ModelInOutBlended
GPT-5.6 Terra $2.00 $12.00 $4.50
GPT-5.6 Luna $0.20 $1.20 $0.45

Against the other OpenAI tiers

PlanPriceCeilingMultiple
ChatGPT Go $8 $199 24.9x
ChatGPT Plus $20 $497 24.9x
ChatGPT Pro $100 $2,387 23.9x

Priced against other vendors

OpenAI ChatGPT Go vs Z.ai Coding Plan Lite
$8 against $18 a month
OpenAI ChatGPT Go vs Moonshot AI Moderato
$8 against $19 a month
OpenAI ChatGPT Go vs Anthropic Pro
$8 against $20 a month

Check it yourself

This page is generated from the catalogue, so it matches the plan data exactly. To measure your own usage against it, install the skill and ask your agent:

curl -o ~/.claude/skills/aisubsidy-measure/SKILL.md --create-dirs https://aisubsidy.pages.dev/skill.md