{"name":"ChatGPT","tagline":"The general-purpose AI assistant that set the category baseline.","url":"https://chatgpt.com","category":"productivity","pricing":"freemium","price_note":"free tier; Go $8/mo, Plus $20/mo, Pro from $100/mo","free_tier":true,"open_source":false,"api":false,"self_host":false,"models_used":["gpt-5-6-terra","gpt-5-4-mini","gpt-5-6-sol","gpt-5-6-luna"],"verdict":"ship","verdict_text":"Still the safest default assistant — sit it next to Claude and Gemini, not Grammarly. Reasoning, search, code execution and images in one place; the free tier still beats many paid rivals. Image generation is a separate catalog job (GPT Image 2); Codex is a separate coding card.","limitations":["Usage caps on Plus frustrate heavy users mid-task.","Memory and personalization features can go stale or wrong.","The app keeps pushing features you may not want.","This is the chat assistant, not the API and not Codex."],"strengths":["Safest default assistant: reasoning, search, code execution and images in one place.","The free tier still beats many paid rivals for everyday work."],"use_for":["Daily chat when you want one app, not a writing-only grammar tool.","Light research and reasoning where Plus or even free is enough."],"skip_when":["Plus caps cut you off mid-task.","You need the API or Codex — those are separate cards.","You want a quiet app that does not keep pushing extra features."],"receipts":["https://chatgpt.com/pricing","https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11369540","https://platform.openai.com/docs/models"],"affiliate":"none","evidence_tier":"source-verified","momentum":"steady","featured":true,"data_sensitivity":{"trains_on_inputs":"yes","local_processing":false},"last_verified":"2026-09-01","observed_by":"whysanesanders","slug":"chatgpt","canonical_url":"https://noemium.com/tools/chatgpt/","attribution":"Noemium catalog data is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). See https://noemium.com/method/ for how entries are verified."}