OpenAI’s affordable ChatGPT Go plan expands to 16 new countries in Asia

Open is rapidly expanding its affordable chatzpt go plan, which is priced at $ 5 in 16 new countries across Asia. The subscription level is now available in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darusalam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Land, Thailand, East Timor and Vietnam.

In countries like Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and Pakistan, the company is allowing users to pay for local currency. In the remaining countries, users will have to pay the US dollar at a price of about $ 5, including the final expenditure on local tax.

Chatzept Goes users to make a higher daily limit for users to produce messages, images and upload files or images. The plan enables more personalized reactions to give twice the memory of the free plan.

According to the Openai, the expansion has come because the company has seen the base of the weekly active user base in Southeast Asia to grow up to four times. The plan was first launched in India in August, then Indonesia in September. OpenAI has said that customers in India have doubled since the launch.

OpenAI is competing with Google to create affordable AI Chatbot subscription plans in further regions. Google has introduced the same price Google AI Plus plans to Indonesia in SeptemberAfter that, more than 5 countries were expanded. Plus tires provides access to the most advanced AI model of Google with creative equipment for creating images and videos to make users – Flow (for design), whisk (for remixing image), and VO 3 Fast (for video making) as well as 200 GB.

This expansion comes at an important moment for the opening. At the 2025 conference in San Francisco this week, CEO Sam Altman announced that the ChatzP had reached around 1 million weekly active users worldwide, more than 1 million in August. The company also unveiled a large platform shift, introducing apps that work directly inside the ChattGPT and converted the chatboot into an ecosystem that is similar to an App Store, with partners like Spotify, Jillo and Cegors, In othersThe

“The evolution that we have been trying to do for the next few years is a where Chatziper itself is like an operating system where you can come and use applications,” ChatzPT’s chief Nick Tarley, told the development of the event on the outskirts of the event. “If you want to write there is an app for you if you want to code you have an app for you if you want to interact with products and services you have apps for”

Despite the rapid growth of the openings and the recent $ 500 billion evaluation, the company has said that the $ 7.8 billion operating loss in the first half of 2025 due to a lot of spending on the AI ​​infrastructure. Affordable subscription levels like ChatzPT Go are seen as an important step towards gaining profitability when expanding its global user base, especially in high-growing markets across Asia, where both Open and Google are competing for market shares aggressively.