AI research lab and ChatGPT maker delivering foundation models, APIs, and productivity apps for consumers, developers, and enterprises.
What is OpenAI?#
OpenAI is an AI research lab that builds general-purpose foundation models and ships them as ChatGPT for consumers, APIs for developers, and enterprise products—positioning itself around safe deployment of artificial general intelligence.
What can OpenAI do?#
- 01
ChatGPT conversational AI
Assistant for writing, coding, research, learning, and planning across dozens of languages.
- 02
Codex coding agent
Writes, edits, and tests code inside your IDE, terminal, and CI pipeline.
- 03
Sora video generation
Creates video clips from text prompts for ideation and short-form content.
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OpenAI API Platform
Developer APIs for GPT, reasoning models, and the Agents SDK.
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Enterprise and Education plans
ChatGPT tailored for businesses, schools, and research teams.
Use Cases#
- Developers — Call GPT and reasoning models through the OpenAI API to build chat, coding, and agent features in their own apps.
- Students — Use ChatGPT to quiz vocabulary, explain concepts, translate text, and draft essays across many subjects.
- Business teams — Adopt ChatGPT Enterprise to draft emails, summarize meetings, and automate repetitive knowledge work across the company.
- Researchers — Access frontier models and OpenAI research releases for experiments and technical evaluation.
Quick facts about OpenAI#
- Pricing
- Free$0/moChatGPT Plus$20/moChatGPT Pro$200/moChatGPT Business$25/seatEnterpriseContact salesAPI (usage-based)Contact salesas of Apr 16, 2026View official pricing
- Platforms
- Web·iOS·Android·API·macOS·Windows
- Languages
- English·AM·Arabic·BG·BN·BS·CS·DA·German·EL·Spanish·ET·FA·FI·FIL·French·Hindi·HR·HU·Indonesian·Italian·Japanese·Korean·Portuguese·Russian·Chinese·NL·PL·TR·Vietnamese·Thai
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