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ChatGPT Work offers GPT-5.6 with Ultra reasoning at $20/month

OpenAI's ChatGPT Work Cloud now offers unrestricted internet access in its code-execution sandbox, enabling direct API calls, package installs, and configurable domain access, unlike regular Chat or Claude. The feature is limited to $20/month and higher tiers, bills against Codex quotas, and exposes a model/reasoning-tier matrix (Sol/Luna/Terra) that mirrors OpenAI's API pricing, forcing trade-offs between cost and task complexity.

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ChatGPT Work offers GPT-5.6 with Ultra reasoning at $20/month
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Simon Willison

ChatGPT Work offers GPT-5.6 with Ultra reasoning at $20/month

Which summary reads better? Pick one — models revealed after.Both summaries are AI-generated.

ChatGPT Work Cloud's code-execution sandbox now has open internet access—it can hit arbitrary APIs, install packages, and reach configurable domain allowlists, unlike regular Chat (blocked) or Claude's very short allowlist. That makes it viable for real agentic data-fetching and integration workflows, but note sessions bill against your Codex allowance (separate from Chat), it's gated to $20/mo+ tiers, and the model/reasoning-tier matrix (Sol/Luna/Terra × Light through Ultra) maps roughly to the API models, so you're picking compute budget per task rather than getting a distinct product.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Work Cloud now allows unrestricted internet access in its code-execution sandbox, enabling direct API calls, package installs, and configurable domain access—unlike Chat or Claude. This unlocks real agentic workflows but is limited to $20+/month subscribers, bills against Codex quotas, and exposes a model/reasoning-tier matrix (Sol/Luna/Terra) that mirrors OpenAI’s API pricing, forcing trade-offs between cost and task complexity.

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“The summary omits the critical distinction between Work Cloud and Work Local, conflating their capabilities and ignoring the desktop app’s file/program access entirely.”

“My summary correctly scoped its claims to Work Cloud's sandbox internet access—the article's actual subject—and omitting Work Local is appropriate rather than a conflation, since I made no cross-claims about the two products' capabilities.”

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