This is the biggest news for all my developer friends in India. We are getting free access to GPT-5. Yes you read that right. OpenAI is giving all Indians ChatGPT Go for an entire year at no cost.
Currently ChatGPT Go plan costs ₹ 399 per month, and this same plan will soon be available for free:
As a developer this is the news I was waiting for. Let us talk about what this means for us coders and how we can use it.
ChatGPT Go Free Plan Announcement
So how did this happen. OpenAI is having its first big developer event in India. It is called DevDay Exchange and it is in Bengaluru on November 4 2025.
To celebrate the Indian developer community they made this amazing announcement. They said India is their second biggest market. They see how many students and developers here use their tool.
So starting November 4 anyone in India can sign up. You will get ChatGPT Go free for 12 months. This is a huge gift for all of us.
ChatGPT Go Features (The Good Part for Coders)
I know you want to know the features. What do we developers get. This is the exciting part.
- Extended GPT-5 Access: This is the main thing. We get extended access to GPT-5. This is their smartest and newest model. For coding this means better logic. It can understand complex code. It can help you write better functions and find difficult bugs. It is much better than the old models.
- More File Uploads: This is a game-changer for me. We can upload multiple files. You can upload your
.pyfile. You can upload your.jsfile. You can even upload yourpackage.jsonfile. Then you can ask questions like “find the bug in this code” or “what does this class do” or “are there any problems in this file”. This is super useful. - Advanced Data Analysis: This is another powerful tool. ChatGPT Go can write and run Python code in a secure box. You can give it a CSV file and say “show me a chart of this data”. You can ask it to solve complex math problems. It is like having a Python assistant right there.
- Longer Memory: This is very important for coding. The Go plan has a longer memory. It will remember what you said 20 messages ago. You do not have to repeat “I am working on a React project in TypeScript”. It remembers your project context. This makes fixing code much faster.
- Custom GPTs: We can build our own coding assistants. Imagine you make a “Python Expert” GPT. Or a “React Native Debugger” GPT. You can train it with your own instructions. This is perfect for developers.
Go vs Plus vs Pro (The Developer Choice)
So many plans. Let me make it simple for a developer.
- ChatGPT Go (Now Free): This is the perfect plan for 90 percent of developers. It gives you the best model GPT-5. It gives you file uploads for your code. It gives you data analysis. It is all we need for daily coding tasks.
- ChatGPT Plus: This is the more expensive plan. You only need this if you need more. It has special tools like Sora for making videos. It has advanced “agent mode”. But for just coding the free Go plan is amazing.
- ChatGPT Pro: This is for big companies. It costs a lot of money. We do not need to worry about this one.
Do I Still Need to Pay for ChatGPT Plus
My short answer for a developer is no. The free ChatGPT Go plan gives you the most important tools for coding. You get GPT-5 and you get file uploads. These are the two biggest things. Save your money. The free Go plan will be powerful enough for your coding projects.
What if I Already Paid for ChatGPT Go
What if you are like me and already paid for ChatGPT Go. Do not worry. OpenAI said that existing subscribers in India will also get the 12-month free period. You will not be charged for the next year. This is very fair.
My Conclusion
I am very happy with this news. We all get a very powerful AI tool for free. We can use this to learn new languages. We can use it to debug our code in minutes, not hours. We can build bigger and better projects. This will help students who are learning. It will also help professionals who are building big systems.
