API access, which is pay as you go, is much cheaper if you just want to just play around. If I'm not using plugins, I genuinely prefer playground.openai.com to

API access, which is pay as you go, is much cheaper if you just want to just play around. If I'm not using plugins, I genuinely prefer playground.openai.com to chat.openai.com, because I can modify messages. I've found that any time ChatGPT gets something wrong, that wrongness is stuck it the context, and screws things up.