> or the free plan There's your answer. Yes, on a free plan, you don't get to experience the state of the art that excites people so much. Models are weaker a

> or the free plan There's your answer. Yes, on a free plan, you don't get to experience the state of the art that excites people so much. Models are weaker and more prone to hallucinate, and limits are stricter - both of which makes the services much less useful for causal use. Pay $20 and play with ChatGPT for a month (or go the API route and find good software that lets you supply your own API key), see what you get. Yes, technically ChatGPT has this $200 tier, but I don't think it makes a qualitative difference for causal use, given that (apparently, as I discovered two days ago), even the "Deep Research" thing is now available on the $20 tier - in limited amount (I have 10 queries per month), but enough to give it a solid test drive.