Compare · ChatGPT Pro, ChatGPT Business and DraftMesh
Keep ChatGPT Pro. Give the work a home your team can open.
A ChatGPT Pro subscription is sized for one person who uses ChatGPT a lot. ChatGPT Business is sized for a workspace, where shared links and Projects stay inside it. If what your team actually needs is to see, review and sign off on what you and ChatGPT made, you don't have to choose between them: keep Pro, and put the work on DraftMesh.
What OpenAI publishes
The ChatGPT plans, as priced on help.openai.com and OpenAI’s Codex pricing page.
Read from OpenAI's own pages on 2026-10-05. These are OpenAI's figures and OpenAI's words; the sources are linked below the table.
| ChatGPT plan | Price | Usage, in OpenAI's words | Sharing a chat or a Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | $8 a month | The lowest paid tier; Codex is included, Codex Cloud is not | Share a chat by link: anonymous by default, and in OpenAI’s words “anyone who has a link created from a personal account can view” it. Share a Project with invited people or anyone with the link; every collaborator is a signed-in ChatGPT user, up to 10 collaborators and 25 files. |
| Plus | $20 a month, monthly billing only | Codex and Codex Cloud included. OpenAI publishes its limits per model as ranges of local messages per five-hour window, the same ranges as a Business Standard seat | Same as Go: up to 10 collaborators and 25 files per shared Project. |
| Pro 100, Pro 200, Pro 500 | $100, $200 or $500 a month, monthly billing only | “Pro plans currently have no five-hour limit”, in OpenAI’s words; Pro 500 adds Ultrafast | Same as Plus, with up to 100 collaborators and 40 files per shared Project. |
| Business, Standard seat | $20 a seat a month billed annually, or $25 monthly | Codex and Codex Cloud included, at the same per-model ranges OpenAI publishes for Plus | A link made in the workspace opens only for members of that workspace, and Business cannot switch shared links off; that control is Enterprise’s. Project invitations may be limited to the workspace. A Site can be shared with named people outside it. |
| Business, Premium seat | $100 a seat a month billed annually, or $125 monthly | 5× a Standard seat, with no five-hour usage limit | Same as Standard |
A Business workspace needs at least 2 paid seats, in any mix of Standard and Premium; OpenAI publishes no upper limit. Enterprise is priced by agreement. OpenAI says Codex is included in every ChatGPT plan, with Codex Cloud left out of Free and Go, and that a Business workspace has no data export. OpenAI describes a Premium seat as 5 times a Standard seat and Pro as having no five-hour limit; it publishes no direct Pro-to-Premium ratio, so neither do we. Pro 200 is on sale again; OpenAI says new subscriptions “that aren’t eligible for grandfathering include a lower usage allowance”, without publishing a figure.
Sources:ChatGPT Work and Codex pricing · About ChatGPT Pro tiers · ChatGPT Business overview · Managing billing and seats in ChatGPT Business · Managing data, sharing and privacy in ChatGPT Business · Projects in ChatGPT · Sharing conversations and scheduled tasks in ChatGPT · Using Codex with your ChatGPT plan.
The sharing gap, precisely
Sharing exists on every ChatGPT plan. The question is where the work lives and who needs a login.
ChatGPT shares chats and whole Projects on its individual plans. What changes with Business is who can open them. What changes with DraftMesh is what is being shared.
On ChatGPT Plus and Pro
On ChatGPT Business
On DraftMesh
Three ways to do it
One builder on ChatGPT Pro 200, three colleagues who need to review the work.
The same month, three ways. ChatGPT figures are OpenAI's published prices; DraftMesh figures are ours.
Move everyone to ChatGPT Business
$200
a month, billed monthly — $160 billed annually
- Your ChatGPT plan
- Your seat becomes a Business Premium seat, which OpenAI describes as 5× a Standard seat with no five-hour limit. It does not describe it as a Pro 200 equivalent.
- Your colleagues
- 3 Standard seats. Each colleague gets ChatGPT of their own, and signs in to open what you share.
- How sharing works
- Inside the workspace: links and Project invitations open only for members. A Site can be shared with named people outside it.
Keep Pro 200, add DraftMesh Individual
$205
a month — Pro 200 at $200, plus Individual at $5 a month
- Your ChatGPT plan
- Pro 200, unchanged. Codex writes into the workspace under its own name.
- Your colleagues
- Guest review links: expiring, revocable, scoped to one document or one section. No account, no seat, nothing to install.
- How sharing works
- Reviewers comment on the rendered page and sign off on the version they read. Named teammates and verified identity are not on this tier.
Keep Pro 200, add DraftMesh Team
$400
a month, billed monthly — about $366.67 billed annually, for 4 seats
- Your ChatGPT plan
- Pro 200, unchanged. Your own DraftMesh seat is one of the 4.
- Your colleagues
- 3 named teammates with verified identity and no ChatGPT plan of their own. Guest links and connected agents stay free.
- How sharing works
- Share one document or a whole workspace. Single sign-on, team administration and an append-only audit log are included.
Reading it honestly: If your colleagues want ChatGPT for themselves, Business is the cheaper way to give it to them, and nothing here says otherwise. If what they need is to open, review and sign off on what you built, DraftMesh does that without touching your Pro plan, and without a ChatGPT login for anyone.
DraftMesh Reviewer seats are free, unlimited on Team and Enterprise: named colleagues who review, approve and sign off but never author, and a version is approved once an author approves it. With them, the third option is about $250 a month for the same 4 people: your own Team seat, and 3 reviewers who pay nothing.
What DraftMesh does not change
Three things to be clear about before you decide.
Your ChatGPT usage
Chats, Projects and Sites in ChatGPT
Colleagues who need ChatGPT themselves
How it works
From a ChatGPT Pro session to a reviewed, signed-off page.
Four steps, none of which change how you use ChatGPT.
01
Install DraftMesh, free
02
Let the work land as files
03
Turn on sync for that workspace
04
Share it, and keep Pro 200
Questions people ask about this
Can I share ChatGPT work privately without moving to ChatGPT Business?
Yes. Keep your Pro or Plus subscription and give the work a home in a DraftMesh workspace, either by having Codex write it there or by saving the text or code from a chat into the workspace folder. Then share the document or the workspace from DraftMesh. A guest review link on the Individual tier ($50 a year) needs no account at all; a named teammate with verified identity is the Team tier, at $50 a seat a month or $500 a seat a year. Reviewers comment on the rendered page and sign off on a specific version.
Does DraftMesh change my ChatGPT usage limits?
No. DraftMesh does not run the model and sells no usage. Your ChatGPT plan sets your ChatGPT limits exactly as before; DraftMesh adds the shared, reviewed home for what the model produces. Its paid tiers start when a second person needs to see your documents, not when you hit a limit.
Which ChatGPT output can I put in a DraftMesh workspace?
Anything that is, or can be saved as, a plain file DraftMesh handles: .md for prose, .html for a rendered page, with .json, .css and .js beside it. A page Codex built is HTML, CSS and JavaScript already, so it lands as the files it already is; prose from a chat is pasted into a .md file. Simplest of all, Codex writes any of these straight into the workspace folder under its own name.
Do my reviewers need a ChatGPT account or a DraftMesh account?
On a guest link, neither. They open the link, read the rendered document, comment and sign off, and the link expires when you said it would. A shared ChatGPT Project, by contrast, needs every collaborator to sign in to ChatGPT. A named teammate on DraftMesh signs in with verified identity on a Team seat and needs no ChatGPT plan of their own.
Is the ChatGPT pricing on this page current?
The ChatGPT prices and sharing rules here were read from OpenAI's help center and Codex pricing page on 2026-10-05. They are OpenAI's to change, so check them there before deciding. DraftMesh's own prices are the ones published on our pricing page.
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