ChatGPT Business vs Enterprise: cost and differences

How much does ChatGPT Business cost per user?

A Standard seat in ChatGPT Business (formerly ChatGPT Team) costs €21 per user per month on an annual plan and €26 on a monthly plan; in US dollars that is $20 and $25. A Premium seat, with more ChatGPT Work and Codex usage and no five-hour limit, costs €105 per user per month annually or €130 monthly ($100 or $125). You can mix both types in one workspace, up to 200 paid seats. The usual minimum is two seats; some new workspaces can start with one if checkout offers it.

For 10 people on Standard seats that comes to €2,520 a year on annual billing, or €3,120 if you pay monthly. OpenAI does not say whether its euro prices include VAT, but a business that enters its VAT number at checkout pays no VAT to OpenAI.

Possible extra costs and commitments:

• Usage beyond what a seat includes, paid from workspace credits at OpenAI's rates, if you buy credits and your spend settings allow it.
• API usage beyond the API credits an eligible workspace can activate, worth up to €510 a month.
• On an annual plan, seats you add stay committed until the term ends, and you can lower the seat count only at renewal. Unused seats are generally not refunded.

How much does ChatGPT Enterprise cost?

OpenAI publishes no price for Enterprise: you get a quote from its sales team, and the contract sets the terms. Usage is billed through credits or, under token-based agreements, invoiced monthly on top of any seat fees.

Figures reported by buyers and pricing trackers cluster around $60 per user per month, in a range of $45 to $75, often with a minimum of about 150 seats. OpenAI has confirmed neither figure, so treat them as estimates. For illustration, 150 seats at $60 come to $108,000 a year, before usage charges.

What is the difference between ChatGPT Business and Enterprise?

Enterprise adds central IT control, audit logging, data residency and stronger support. Both plans give you a company workspace, SAML single sign-on and no training on your data by default.

Both plans run OpenAI's models. For work on your company's documents, seef is a third option: you choose the models with us, and seef is run by Timformatie, certified to ISO 27001:2022 and NEN 7510-1:2024.

ChatGPT Business vs Plus: which one should a company use?

Business, as soon as company data is involved. Plus costs €23 a month for one person and runs on consumer terms: OpenAI may train on conversations by default and offers no data processing agreement for your chats and uploads. The safety guide has the details per plan.

Per user, Business costs about the same as Plus. The catch for a sole trader is the usual two-seat minimum: unless checkout offers a single seat, a workspace costs at least €42 a month on annual billing.

Is ChatGPT Business GDPR compliant?

No plan is compliant on its own; that depends on how you use personal data. Business and Enterprise do offer the contract you need, a data processing agreement in which OpenAI acts as your processor, while your lawful basis, record of processing and risk assessment remain your own work. Of the two, only Enterprise can run supported model processing in Europe, for eligible customers, and even then some steps can run elsewhere. If all processing must stay in the EU, also for a small team, seef can set up its environment that way. The safety guide covers the rest.

Business, Enterprise or a separate AI environment: which fits?

For drafting, summarising and analysis across a team, Business is usually enough. Enterprise makes sense once IT needs central provisioning, audit logs or model processing in Europe, usually for large teams. A separate environment fits when the main job is answering questions from your company's own documents, with a clear boundary around what AI can reach. ChatGPT's connectors can also search SharePoint or Google Drive, following each source's permissions, so an overshared folder becomes searchable. A separate environment answers only from what you put in its knowledge base. If your company runs on Microsoft 365, also read how Copilot compares with seef.

seef is a private AI assistant for your company's knowledge, in its own environment, hosted in the EU and run by a Dutch team. You fill a knowledge base from SharePoint or Google Drive, and answers from it show the documents they came from. You choose the models with us, including models hosted in the EU. Need EU-only processing, a knowledge base per team or hosting on your own servers? We set it up that way. seef is priced per user by quote and usually starts with a small group. The security page describes the standard setup.