OpenAI offers free ChatGPT Plus to college students just before finals week, escalating competition with Anthropic's Claude as tech giants battle for dominance in the $80 billion education AI market.

Following the release of rival Anthropic's Claude for Education, OpenAI has announced that its $20 ChatGPT Plus tier will be free for college students until the end of May. The offer comes just in time for final exams and will provide features like OpenAI's most advanced LLM,

Sam Altman made ChatGPT Plus available to US and Canadian students for free until the end of May - what's the deal about?

ChatGPT Pro is 10 times the price of ChatGPT Plus. Is either worth the money or should you stick to the free version? Here's how to decide.

The upgraded ChatGPT Plus tier usually costs $20 a month, and opens up access to ChatGPT’s advanced Deep Research model, the upgraded GPT-4.5 preview, and extends the limits imposed on users accessing the free tools (so you can send more prompts and upload more files before you hit your cap).

ChatGPT"s Deep Research feature can find, analyse and look up for information on the internet about any subject and generate detailed reports.

Deep Research can conduct multi-step research on the user’s behalf The ChatGPT feature was first released in February Deep Research outputs can take between five to 30 minutes to generate

OpenAI will now make its premium ChatGPT Plus subscription available at no cost to college students in the US and Canada through the end of May, providing students with free access to advanced AI capabilities that are typically behind a paywall,