ChatGPT is OpenAI's generative AI tool. This information is accurate as of April 2025, but functionality and access are likely to continue to change in the upcoming weeks and months.

Wesleyan does not have an institutional license. Users wishing to acquire a ChatGPT license must do so with their own funds.

ChatGPT available in several pricing tiers:

• Free. Free provides users with access to GPT-4o mini, limited access to GPT-4o, limited access to data analysis, file uploads, vision, web browsing, and image generation. Users can use custom GPTs and code edits with the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS.
• Plus. Everything in Free and extended limits on messaging, file uploads, data analysis, and image generation, standard and advanced voice mode with video and screensharing, access to deep research and multiple reasoning models (o3‑mini, o3‑mini‑high, and o1), access to a research preview of GPT‑4.5, our largest model yet, create and use projects, tasks, and custom GPTs, and limited access to Sora video generation. The cost is $20 (not including taxes) and is billed monthly. 
• Pro. Pro provides users with everything in Plus, along with unlimited access to all reasoning models and GPT‑4o, unlimited access to advanced voice, with higher limits for video and screensharing, access to o1 pro mode, which uses more compute for the best answers to the hardest question, extended access to deep research, Sora video generation, and access to a research preview of Operator. The cost is $200 (not including taxes) and is billed monthly.
• Team. Requires a minimum of two licenses, and is centrally managed through an admin console. The admin must be a licensed user of the Team. Team provides users the same access as Plus, including deep research, file uploads, data analysis, canvas, projects, tasks, and search. In addition, users can personalize ChatGPT’s responses with internal knowledge from your organization’s Google Drive. More connectors coming soon, have higher message limits than Plus for GPT‑4o, access to multiple reasoning models (o3‑mini, o3‑mini‑high, and o1), and create and share custom GPTs with your workspace. The cost is $300 annually per license (not including taxes) or $30 per month (not including taxes), billed monthly. 

Users are more than welcome to buy their own individual Plus or Pro license or set up their own Team for their department, lab, group, etc..

Wesleyan ITS manages a Team, but does not pay for licenses. Wesleyan faculty/staff can join the ITS-managed Team at their own cost on an annual basis; ITS will not manage monthly licenses. Those wishing to join the ITS-managed Team should open a ticket with the name(s) and email(s) of the user(s) wishing to join the Team, as well as a complete cost center (including designation/designee if applicable) to charge. Users should expect to pay around $320 per license and cannot cancel their license until the time of the annual renewal, which is in January. 

Please note, in addition to different pricing, the tiers also offer different levels of data privacy. Only in a Team is data uploaded by users excluded from training OpenAI's model. Users should therefore only upload data the university’s Data Classification Policy classifies as "Public" into the Free and Plus tiers. Users may enter "Sensitive" data only into a Team. Any information classified as “Restricted” cannot be entered into any GPT tier. Examples of data that should not be used in any GPT tier are information that the user has a contractual, legal, or regulatory obligation to protect, which includes, but is not limited to, information covered by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Social Security Numbers (SSNs), and Protected Health Information (PHI). Researchers should be sure to review guidelines governing the privacy of their research data before entering it into any GPT. Please see the Wesleyan University Generative AI Usage policy for more information.