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Love this for india. AI adoption might just sky rocket after this.
With ₹399 and no credit card barrier, this could be AI's “Jio moment.” Suddenly, millions of first-time payers can access GPT-5.
Imagine the ripple effects on education, vernacular content, coding bootcamps, and small-town creators.
$5/month for GPT-5 in India feels like OpenAI subsidizing an India-only sandbox to chase growth, especially after Perplexity Pro showed up via Airtel. Interesting timing, is this innovation, or just a defensive move to keep competitors out? That said, it’s a smart play: India is extremely price-sensitive and not very subscription-friendly, so the $20 tier never saw much traction. Adding UPI makes it genuinely India-f…
But OpenAI might be running a playbook most competitors can’t afford to match: - Lock distribution now - Trade margins for data + ubiquity - Introduce upsells / infra plays later
Smart move by OpenAI. ₹399 with UPI lowers the barrier a lot- curious to see how this shapes AI adoption outside metros.
The real unlock is not just the lower price, it is UPI. I have had so many friends and students ask me about ChatGPT but they could never pay because of the credit card wall. ₹399 with UPI makes it actually accessible.
For my own use I will stay on Pro since I need GPT-4o and API, but this new plan is going to bring in millions of first time users. It feels like the moment AI finally goes mainstream in India.
I have been on the $20 Pro plan for a while and use GPT every day for dev and product work. This move feels huge for India. The real unlock is not just the lower price, it is UPI. I have had so many friends and students ask me about ChatGPT but they could never pay because of the credit card wall. ₹399 with UPI makes it actually accessible. For my own use I will stay on Pro since I need GPT-4o and API, but this new p…
I see parents and grandparents use it more with every passing day and it is much more useful and significant than the penetration of brain-rot content apps. Having an india specific price is only going to fuel this adoption and I am excited to see what comes out of it.
I've given "auto" routing a try (where some routing model tries to decide whether to route to non-thinking gpt-5-chat or the thinking gpt-5 a.k.a "GPT-5 Thinking"), and I've been very disappointed by almost all gpt-5-chat answers. gpt-5, on the other hand, has been pretty solid.
As a side note, even as an occasional buyer of CPUs and GPUs and Nokia phones in the past, OpenAI's naming scheme has got to be one of the most hostile ones in history.