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ChatGPT Team (now Business) vs Plus: which does your team need?

Updated 5 November 2026

ChatGPT Team is now called ChatGPT Business: OpenAI renamed it on 29 August 2025 without changing the plan. Choose Business over Plus when your team needs one company bill, admin control over accounts, data excluded from training by default, or skills and company tools shared across a workspace. Business costs $25 a user billed monthly or $20 billed yearly, from 2 users; Plus costs $20 a month and is one person's account. If people work alone and only need the same few instructions, Plus is enough.

Short answer

"Team" and "Business" are the same plan. The name changed in August 2025.
Choose Business for shared skills and connectors, admin, SSO, and no training by default.
Stay on Plus if each person works alone and the company doesn't need to own the accounts.
Price gap: $5 a user a month on monthly billing; none on yearly.

Business and Plus side by side

	Plus	Business (formerly Team)
Price	$20 a month	$25 a user billed monthly, $20 billed yearly
Who	One person	2 or more users; Standard and Premium seats
Training on your chats	On by default; you can turn it off	Not by default
Admin and SSO	No	Admin controls for users, usage and billing; SSO and MFA
Shared skills	No workspace to share in	Share with people, groups or the workspace
Custom MCP connectors	Not listed by OpenAI	Full MCP; admins and owners add and publish
Projects shared with people	Yes, by invitation or a link	Yes, with people, groups or a link

From OpenAI's pricing, Business and help pages, read 5 November 2026. US prices. Several help pages block automated reads; their wording was read through search-result text, as each source notes.

A worked example: a five-person marketing team

Illustration: a made-up business. A five-person marketing team at an online furniture shop each pays for Plus. Their manager wants the same brand-voice and product-description instructions used by everyone, and the finance lead wants one invoice.

Cost now: 5 × Plus = $100 a month, on five cards.
Business, monthly billing: 5 × $25 = $125 a month, one invoice.
Business, yearly billing: 5 × $20 = $100 a month, $1,200 up front.

On yearly billing, Business costs what they pay now, and adds the shared skills, admin and the training default. What it doesn't fix: their copywriter is a freelancer with her own ChatGPT account. OpenAI's community forum has reports from Business owners that links to their workspace's GPTs fail for people outside the workspace, so they plan to give her a seat or share the instructions another way.

How to decide

Does the company need to own the accounts and the bill? Yes: Business.
Does a client or policy require that your data isn't used for training? Business excludes it by default; on Plus, each person must turn training off and keep it off.
Do you want shared skills or a company connector in ChatGPT? That needs a workspace: Business or Enterprise.
Do some colleagues use Claude or a coding agent, or work as freelancers? Workspace sharing won't reach them; plan for that separately.

OpenAI doesn't list ChatGPT Plus for custom MCP connectors. So for a team on mixed plans, one shared skill library helps only those whose AI can connect: ChatGPT Pro (read only), Business and Enterprise, every Claude plan, and coding agents such as Codex, which Plus includes. AI Skill Pod is one such library, with Free for up to 3 members and 10 skills; alternatives to ChatGPT Business compares it with the other options, and sharing ChatGPT skills without Business covers the steps.

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Questions

Is ChatGPT Team the same as ChatGPT Business?

Yes. OpenAI renamed ChatGPT Team to ChatGPT Business on 29 August 2025 and said the price and the plan stayed the same.

What do you get with ChatGPT Business that you don't get with Plus?

A shared workspace for 2 or more people: one bill, admin controls, SSO, your data excluded from training by default, skills and custom connectors shared across the workspace, and Standard or Premium seats. Plus is one person's account.

Can ChatGPT Plus users use a shared skill or MCP connector?

OpenAI doesn't list ChatGPT Plus for custom MCP connectors. On Plus, people paste a shared skill's instructions into a project, or use them from Codex, which Plus includes.

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Put this skill in AI Skill Pod and everyone on your team gets it in their Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT (Pro, Business, Enterprise): one invite link, free to start. The Vendor comparison with weighted scores skill has your AI weigh Business against Plus on your team's own criteria, such as data rules, admin and sharing, and recommend one with the yearly cost.

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Sources

OpenAI Help: ChatGPT Business rename FAQ — Team renamed Business on 29 August 2025; no change to pricing; read through search-result text, the page blocks automated reads (read 2026-11-05)
ChatGPT pricing — Plus $20; Business $20 a user a month billed yearly, $25 billed monthly, 2+ users; no training on business data by default (read 2026-11-05)
ChatGPT Business — admin controls, SSO and MFA, data not used for training, Standard and Premium seats (read 2026-11-05)
OpenAI Help: Skills in ChatGPT — sharing skills in Business, Enterprise, Healthcare and Edu workspaces (read 2026-11-05)
OpenAI Help: Connecting custom MCP servers in ChatGPT — full MCP on Business and Enterprise, added by admins and owners; Pro read/fetch only (read 2026-11-05)
OpenAI Community: sharing from a Business workspace with external users — links fail for people outside the workspace (read 2026-11-05)
OpenAI Help: Data controls — personal plans: training on by default, can be turned off; read through search-result text (read 2026-11-05)