ChatGPT

OpenAI's AI assistant for writing, coding, research, file analysis, and connected work across chats and projects.

Organise a project around your files, ask focused questions, and review the resulting drafts or analysis.

Access and pricing: The ChatGPT Free plan includes limited image creation. Uploads and other advanced features have plan-dependent allowances. API billing is separate; check current account availability and provider pricing.

Try this task: Review two project briefs Paste fictional brief A: launch Friday, budget 500, owner Mina. Brief B: launch Monday, budget 500, owner missing. Ask for a field-by-field difference table with quotes.

Check the result: Pass if Friday/Monday is the only changed value, the unchanged budget stays 500, and the missing owner is flagged rather than guessed.

Choose carefully: For tightly bounded evidence, give it source text instead of relying on recollection.

Evidence: This is an editorial exercise based on the documented product scope, not a recorded hands-on product benchmark. Use permitted or fictional inputs and record your own observed result.

What it does well

Based on the existing listing, ChatGPT combines chats with projects, web search, file and image inputs, voice conversations and connected tools. Projects keep related files and follow-up questions together, which helps when a task spans several sessions.

Getting started in 10 minutes

Create a project, upload a few source documents and ask focused questions that cite those documents. Compare the answers to the text yourself, and ask it to flag anything missing rather than guess. This is a suggested workflow based on documentation, not a hands-on test.

Limits to check before you commit

The listing states the Free plan includes limited image creation, and uploads and other advanced features have plan-dependent allowances. API billing is separate from the app. Check chatgpt.com/pricing before subscribing. Pricing checked on the official page in October 2026: Free is $0 with unlimited text chats on GPT-6 under abuse guardrails, plus limited uploads, image creation, voice, deep research and Codex access. Go is $8 a month and may include ads, Plus is $20, and Pro starts at $100 with three usage tiers.