Free vs paid, am i really missing out?

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Agreed with this, and want to add that that completely flips as soon as you do get GPT Plus.

No I upload tons of screenshots and images every hour and never reach a limit

Yeah the actual limit I believe is 80 files every 3 hours.

This. Did the same and have Gemini pro. Probably gonna continue with paid gpt..memory is way better

I think it's time this really ancient outdated Bot text gets updated 😁

No kidding. And the cost OpenAI pays for the resources it uses to meet user demands can be up to $200 / month or more for a $20 sub.

It's the best $20/month subscription for value I've used my entire life. Of course you are missing out.

Would love to hear some examples?

I was a very casual free user, then chat offered me randomly a free trial month. Haven't gone back since. It opens up a whole world of possibilities that I'm still discovering

gpt 5.6 high thinking is just much better but depends on what tasks your doing for simple stuff free is fine same with basic conversations but high it is a big improvement and max out thinking my lord it is almost like having a paid assistant for tasks like its impressive not perfect but well worth it imo for money making and time saving

the concept of thinking is really hard to convey if your using free.

Nothing as your requirements are beyond trivial.

depends on which paid one go: go has basically no limits on the chat you can realistically hit; uploads are also plenty [~80 iirc] plus: even more limits, but a better codex usage [weekly instead of go&free's monthly], more research per day, more configurable thinking pro: actually unlimited chat, pro models which are usually quite more capable, and ofcourse highest quotas on codex&work

better memory

It’s hard to explain how much ‘smarter’ the thinking models are. When I first started on free last year (and have tested every model released since), the amount of things Chat would get wrong was nearly every chat. It still does it, tested the other day. When you use Medium to High intelligence, the amount of error decreases hugely. If that is something that you need then it will be a no brainer. That is for me so I’ll never go back to free or Instant models. Depends ultimately how you use it. For me the higher intelligence models are a must. If you just chit chat with it, and not use it as a tool, then free is enough.

Idk you have a super intelligent (sure it’s ‘mimicking’ it but the effects are pretty similar) instantaneous assistant at the tips of your fingers. And you can’t even afford $20 to get the max usage out of it to help drive your productivity, health, relationships, career goals, motivation, cooking, inspiration, project development, ideation, and more? So you just use the free dumb tier to be a limited q&a only? Just give it a month and see if you like it and use it to justify the cost.

It is still limited on plus. But I think it is 10 to 20 file uploads every 4 hours. But pretty much unlimited image generation. Don't know if you have all the options like infographic on free but there is lots of image type options on plus such as felt and infographics. There is obviously higher models of intelligence but not sure they used in image generation. I will say ChatGPT is more accurate at generating real world images than Gemini. But if you don't mind waiting then I'd stay on free. (Also deep research and work mode which work is an agent that can exports pdfs and multitask but don't know if it can generate images).

Copilot is better than Chat GPT free since it has much less restrictions (quotas) and uses GPT 5.6 vs 5.5/5.4 mini thinking in Chat GPT free.

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