{"slug": "chatgpt-brings-unlimited-text-chats-to-free-users", "title": "ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users", "summary": "OpenAI has made unlimited text chats available to free users of ChatGPT, powered by the new GPT-5.6 Luna model, which reduces factual errors by 62% compared to GPT-5.5. Paid Plus and Pro subscribers receive GPT-5.6 Sol, which cuts errors by 68% and includes a 'thinking slider' for adjustable reasoning depth.", "body_md": "[TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/openai-brings-unlimited-chatgpt-text-chats-to-free-users/)\n\n### ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users\n\nWhich summary reads better? Pick one — models revealed after.Both summaries are AI-generated.\n\nGPT-5.6 Luna reduces factual errors by 62% over GPT-5.5 for free users, enabling more reliable unlimited text chats. This allows free-tier services to handle complex queries with higher accuracy, reducing the need for paid tiers for basic fact-based tasks while maintaining quality.\n\nFree users now get unlimited text chats on GPT-5.6 Luna, cutting factual errors by 62% vs GPT-5.5, while Plus/Pro users get GPT-5.6 Sol with 68% fewer errors and a \"thinking slider\" for adjustable reasoning depth. This means your production agents can rely on cheaper, higher-accuracy models for most text tasks, but you’ll need to retest rate limits on non-text features (files, images, voice) and validate whether the new models’ compact answers break existing prompt chains or output parsers.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chatgpt-brings-unlimited-text-chats-to-free-users", "canonical_source": "https://www.snipvote.com/story/cmsimenze0004pyha04958yth", "published_at": "2026-08-07 12:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-09 09:41:14.754467+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "ChatGPT", "GPT-5.6 Luna", "GPT-5.6 Sol", "GPT-5.5"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chatgpt-brings-unlimited-text-chats-to-free-users", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chatgpt-brings-unlimited-text-chats-to-free-users.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chatgpt-brings-unlimited-text-chats-to-free-users.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chatgpt-brings-unlimited-text-chats-to-free-users.jsonld"}}