OpenAI officially rolled out GPT-5, their latest and most sophisticated large language model so far, and it’s now available to every ChatGPT user, both free and paid, with usage caps set to each tier.
What‘s New with GPT-5?
PhD-Level Intelligence: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman boasted GPT-5 as being at a “PhD-level“ on a range of tasks, a huge step in AI capabilities. The model performs well on reasoning, coding, creative writing, and complex problem-solving.
Unified Model Experience: Toggling between versions of multiple models is now history. GPT-5 unifies them into one, streamlined experience that automatically picks the most suitable version for every task.
Better Performance & Accuracy: Get faster response times, fewer hallucinations, and better reasoning capabilities. GPT-5 also excels in creative fields—such as app development or composing poetry—and has improved capability in responding to health-related questions (with proper disclaimers).
Multimodal Capabilities & Long Context: The model has multimodal inputs—text, images, documents—and an extremely large context window to comprehend long or subtle content.
Personalization & UI Features: The new personalization features are voice tone adjustment, writing style topics, and more intelligent UI adjustments that refine the user experience.
How to Access GPT-5
Free Tier Users: GPT-5 is automatically enabled. You can post a maximum of 10 messages within 5 hours, and one GPT-5 “Thinking“ message per day. Once this limit is reached, the system automatically switches to the lighter GPT-5 mini.
Plus Users: Get up to 160 messages per 3 hours, with access to GPT-5 Thinking (up to 3,000 messages per week) through the model picker.
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Pro and Team Members: Get unlimited access to all variants of GPT-5—ranging from the premium GPT-5 Pro to GPT-5 Thinking Pro—based on usage guidelines.
