Comparison

Tenfold vs ChatGPT Business

ChatGPT Business gives every person on your team an excellent assistant. Tenfold gives your company employees that own a job. The question is not which model is better. It is whether a person stays in the loop for every step.

Tenfold

Tenfold is a team of AI employees. You hire them by role, brief them once, and they carry a job through to the end, coming back with finished work or with a question. You manage them rather than prompt them.

ChatGPT Business

ChatGPT Business is ChatGPT for a company: a seat per person, with GPTs, Projects, Company Knowledge, Deep Research, Codex and ChatGPT Agent, under admin controls and enterprise data protection.

Side by side

Rows say what each product does rather than who wins, because the interesting differences here are not yes-or-no answers.

	Tenfold	ChatGPT Business
What you are actually buying	Employees. Each one owns a job, has its own brief, skills and memory, and several run at once.	Seats. Everyone on the team gets their own assistant, and the best general-purpose one there is.
Who does the work	The employee does, and tells you when it is done. You review rather than drive.	You do, with very good help. ChatGPT Agent will carry out a multi-step task when you ask it to.
How you pay	$99, $299 or $799 a month for the company, whatever the headcount.	$25 per user per month billed monthly, or $20 billed annually. Premium seats are $125 and $100. Workspace credits cover usage past the included limits.
What happens as the team grows	Nothing. The bill is set by how much work runs at once, not by how many people watch it.	The bill grows with headcount, because the unit is a person. Below roughly eight people that is the cheaper shape.
Its own identity	Named employees with roles, avatars and their own memory, that other people on the team can hand work to.	One assistant per person, plus custom GPTs you can share across the workspace.
Its own email address	Every employee gets a real mailbox. Customers write to it and it replies, with approval where you want it.	Not part of the product. Work happens in the ChatGPT apps.
Which model runs the work	Chosen per employee, across Anthropic, OpenAI and Google. A bookkeeper and a researcher do not need the same model.	OpenAI's models.
Integrations	Over 1,300 tools, connected by you and revocable at any time.	Connectors to common work tools, plus whatever you build into a GPT.
Where the work lands	A console with an inbox, documents, CRM, meetings and a social desk, plus Slack, Telegram, Discord and email.	The ChatGPT apps on web, desktop and mobile.
Coding	Not what this is for. Employees write documents, posts, briefs and reports, not your codebase.	Codex is included in the seat.
Compliance posture	We do not hold a SOC 2 report today, and our security page says so plainly.	Enterprise data protection and published compliance documentation for business plans.

An assistant, or an employee

The distinction sounds like marketing and is not. An assistant is something you use. You open it, you ask, you read the answer, you decide what to do next, and the loop closes on you every time. That is genuinely valuable, and ChatGPT is the best version of it.

An employee is something you delegate to. You describe the outcome once, and the next thing that happens is finished work arriving, or a question arriving because it hit something it should not decide alone. Your attention is spent on the two ends rather than on every step in the middle.

The test is simple. Count how many times a week you paste something from one window into another and think "I am the integration here". That number is what changes.

But honestly. Delegation only pays when the job is worth describing properly. For a one-off question, opening ChatGPT and asking is faster than briefing anybody, and it always will be.

Per seat, or per company

These are different pricing shapes and each one is better in a different place. ChatGPT Business charges per person, because every person gets something. Tenfold charges per company, because the thing being bought is capacity, and capacity does not care how many people are watching it.

Do the arithmetic on your own team rather than on ours. At eight people, ChatGPT Business on the monthly rate is $200 against our $299. At thirty it is $750 against our $799. The crossover is real and it is further out than we would like.

What moves the answer is not headcount, it is how much work you want running without a person attached to it. If the answer is "some, occasionally", seats are the cheaper shape.

But honestly. On a small team where everyone wants a personal assistant rather than a shared workforce, per-seat is both cheaper and the better fit.

Choose Tenfold if

You want work handed off, not helped along.
You want several jobs running at once without a person driving each one.
You want an employee with an email address customers can write to.
You do not want the bill to move every time you hire someone.
You want the model chosen per job rather than one vendor for everything.

Choose ChatGPT Business if

Everyone on your team needs a great general assistant at their own desk.
You want the frontier model directly, with nothing sitting between you and it.
Writing code is part of the job. Codex comes with the seat and we do not compete there.
Your team is small enough that per-seat is simply cheaper. Under roughly eight people, it is.
Your company has already done procurement with OpenAI and would rather not do it again.

Questions people ask

Is Tenfold just a wrapper around the same models?: We use frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, and we do not pretend otherwise. What you are paying for is everything around them: employees that persist, skills that carry method, tools that are connected, work that runs on a schedule, approval gates, and somewhere for the output to land. If none of that is worth anything to you, use the model directly, and honestly that is sometimes the right answer.
Can I use both?: Most people should. ChatGPT for thinking at your own desk, Tenfold for the work you want off your desk entirely. They are not fighting for the same hour of your day.
Which is cheaper?: Below about eight people, theirs. Above it, ours, and the gap widens as you hire. We have put the arithmetic in the section above rather than making you do it.
Do you train on our data?: No. Nothing you or your employees write is used to train models, ours or anybody else’s, and we do not sell it. Each account also runs in its own isolated environment with its own model key.

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Everything stated here about ChatGPT Business was read on 25 August 2026 from OpenAI business pricing, What is ChatGPT Business. Things change. If we have something wrong, tell us and we will correct this page.