OpenAI said Tuesday it will offer ChatGPT to federal agencies for $1 a year as part of a new partnership with the General Services Administration (GSA).
The announcement comes one day after the agency added OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) model to its government purchasing system, alongside Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude.
“One of the best ways to make sure AI works for everyone is to put it in the hands of the people serving the country,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement.
“We’re proud to partner with the General Services Administration, delivering on President Trump’s AI Action Plan, to make ChatGPT available across the federal government, helping public servants deliver for the American people,” he continued.
As part of the initiative, participating federal agencies will get access to ChatGPT Enterprise for the “nominal price” of $1 for the next year, in addition to 60 days of unlimited use of more advanced features.
OpenAI underscored its security precautions in Tuesday’s announcement, noting that data inputs and outputs are not used to train its models.
Anthropic is also planning to make its models available to the government for as little as $1, according to Axios.
The push to make leading AI models available to the federal government comes after President Trump unveiled his AI framework last month.
The plan called for faster government adoption of the technology, including the creation of an AI procurement toolbox managed by the GSA that would allow agencies to choose between multiple models “in a manner compliant with relevant privacy, data governance, and transparency laws.”
