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Is OpenAI’s New o1-pro Worth $200/month?

Vishal Rajput
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9 min readDec 12, 2024

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OpenAI has released the new o1 and o1-pro, and they are making a lot of noise just like always, but this time, the reason is something else. It is the $200 price tag that is making the most noise instead of how good the model really is. A $200/month is not a small amount by any means, this is a significant salary for a lot of people in low-income countries. And if the path to AGI goes through the pocket of the rich, I’m positive that it’ll create an even bigger difference between the rich and the poor, instead of solving the world problems of inequality and climate change. So, let’s take a deep dive and try to understand what’s new in this and is it even worth paying $200 a month for this newly released model.

Today, we are going to look at several benchmarks from o1’s model card and see a few results from o1-pro mode.

What Are The New Offerings?

Here’s what Sam Altman has to say about the new o1:

This is what the OpenAI’s website states:

ChatGPT Pro, a $200 monthly plan that enables scaled access to the best of OpenAI’s models and tools. This plan includes unlimited access to our smartest model, OpenAI o1, as well as to o1-mini, GPT-4o, and Advanced Voice. It also includes o1 pro mode, a version of o1 that uses more compute to think harder and provide

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