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Can you scale ChatGPT Pro plans ($200/month) at enterprise by buying 10 seats for a dev team, or must you use API credits instead?

ASKED BY · Unknown · 14 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:35:00

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John WallacePANELIST

Enterprise ChatGPT uses shared credit pools rather than per-seat subscriptions; credits can be used by one person or distributed across multiple people without rolling over month-to-month, allowing efficient sharing of capacity. At high scale, direct API costs become more economical than retail credit pricing.

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34:36about because my business partner is the one that's always done quotes and proposals and things for our event technology business. But we had this huge one to do, a really big proposal, and it was a request RFP, you know, all the stuff you hate. And so I just spent a lot of time doing a lot of the voice with ChatGPT voice mode and going over a bunch of stuff

35:06and copying things in and then asking all these questions and then got Codex to build out rather than it being a PDF, I wanted it to be a full interactive website. So we built this big website for the proposal. And the example is that it was because of my understanding of how I could leverage AI to do a whole bunch of this stuff meant that I ended up taking the lead on the proposal,

35:33ironically on our biggest on our biggest um proposal that we'd done um because i could leverage all this stuff and it was like yes this is perfect and then it was just yeah change these and and he would just write out a bunch of changes in fact again it was a spreadsheet that he made all the changes and i just went changed in them into kind of prompts changed a word here or

35:58there, turns into a prompt, and then just gave codex access to that spreadsheet. And it just went through and made all those changes. And so it's that example, I think, of the business thinking and the developer thinking. But I don't think that you don't need to be a developer, obviously, to use AI, but there is still something about harnessing the tool in a way that there's

36:24something about it. I don't know why my brain works that way, but it just, it has to keep driving it. And so now that proposal is all done and we got another little one that came through and we're like, great. I use the same chat thread, you know, I can spin them off. And sometimes it says fork, and sometimes it says, you know, start a new chat based on this history. And so it was just did that,

36:50fork it off to another another chat message and then just go with an agent and then just give it the details and spits it out for you yeah do you though because i like i feel like it knows that stuff itself um you're trusting in context right yeah rather than giving it yeah if you give it parameters and say build me an agent that can do this okay now you can have consistent outcomes

37:17even when it's memory and it forgets something or throws in something from a former proposal that's not supposed to be there the chance of hallucination gets much higher yeah yeah that's that's that's fair i just think i guess there's different ways of doing the agents because there's people that will do i have this you know planner agent and then i have this worker agent i have this other

37:40you know they have five six different agents i'm like you know i can probably just do all of that in one and it will spin up its own agents itself or, or kind of sub tasks that will go off and do, um, just to burn through more tokens. But, um, but that was my other question. And then we'll move on. But, um, John,

38:01we were talking before about like the fact that I'm on a $200, um, uh, chat TPT plan. And I know that, you know, you're using AI a lot through the, through the, the company that you're in. and that you have to kind of use that API, is there no way of like, there's sort of enterprise plan where you could say, we're going to buy 10 $200 plans a month

38:27and give them to our devs. Can you do that? Or does it not scale that way in an enterprise? You can. You're essentially buying buckets of credits. So each person... And how is that different to what I'm doing? um because you can't like roll over to somebody else so if you have like a business account and then i have 10 seats the 10 seats worth of credits could be used by one person or five people

38:54because you're going to have varying use uses and you don't want to have those credits sit and and expire each month yeah okay so you do end up better in the long run because because you're sharing a pool. It's a pool, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And then when you get to really big scale, you're not paying retail credit prices and paying API costs really makes sense.

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