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Ask HN: Is it worth $20 a month for a ChatGPT Subscription?

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I'm looking for responses from actual paying customers — not everyone's hot-take on this topic!

  - How does it compare to the free version, in general?  

  - Are your results *significantly* better or about the same?

  - Do you still experience heavy-use / downtime? 

  - Do you plan to continue subscribing?

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Seems faster, always available, subscribed already.

My work wants to buy corporate accounts for all of IT. Speaking with some old coworkers at other companies, their bosses also want to buy corporate accounts for employees.

Just need on-prem versions so we can start checking private data.

What are ya'll using it for?

I only briefly tested it, however: Salesforce formulas DAX queries Excel formulas Script snippets Text outlines All sorts of things that aren't necessary difficult per se, however people often have to refer to the docs to do them( regex anyone?)

The main point is that people need to know the underlying stuff,so they can do a prompt, glance at the result and fix it of necessary. Definitely not like some are dreaming where 20 dollar subscription replaces entire marketing departments.

everything from code checks, looking up errors, describing api, quick powershell/python scripts, many non programmers now writing code, lots of tech questions, documentation.

Some want to start using it to look at some data, so prob going to spin up a group to see how the company can use it. Also some want it for analytics. Already got some openai api usage for commercial apps that support it, in beta testing.

Considering ChatGPT is probablistic, don't you fear it's giving you almost correct answer for critical things like a code check or the latest API specification? Do you double check it against sources? If so, isn't that twice the work?

You can get a private instance of the GPT 3.5 API running on Azure, not exactly on-prem but possibly meets compliance. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/cognitive-service...

However, you would still need to build your own chat interface around the API.

I subscribed and compared to the free version it’s faster and more available. It’s faster to write but also to start writing.

I didn’t notice significant changes of quality, but I haven’t tried the latest free version.

I experienced some downtime last weekend but overall it’s a tool I can use at work while before it was too slow and too often overloaded.

I will continue subscribing until something better is available. I think it’s worth the price if you use it at work.

I would say wait for sometime to get it better. May be the cost per user will come down as it gets more "efficient".

Not sure if this is going to happen or not.

It would need to become significantly cheaper to run in order to decrease prices.

My prediction is, that they will start offering specialized applications. ChatGPT for marketing, chatGPT for coding, ... and they will have different prices because the perceived value will differ.

They literally have all the data they need for that because they just had 100 million user show them what they use it for.

OpenAI lowered prices for their GPT-3 products by 1/3 just because the costs went down. So I have good faith that they'll pass on savings for other products like ChatGPT when the time comes.

Specialized applications might be something the community builds, paid or not, as it requires some subject matter expertise. Sure, they made Copilot/Codex but they're subject matter experts in programming.

Data alone might not be enough. I mean it does storytelling fine, but the stories fall flat because it doesn't understand the nuances of writing stories. Same goes for marketing and so on.

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