OpenAI
OpenAI

OpenAI

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

2015Active11252San Francisco, United States

About

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation that develops and deploys generative AI models, particularly the GPT series of large language models. The company aims to create safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity, prioritizing safety. Its products include ChatGPT, GPT Image models, and Codex, an AI coding agent.

Competitors & alternatives (18)

Listed competitors

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Google
Google

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Cohere
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Anthropic
Anthropic

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Mistral AI
Mistral AI

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Google Gemini
Google Gemini

Google's family of multimodal large language models powering AI features across its products.

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Meta
Meta

Leading social media and technology platform connecting billions of people globally.

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Safe Superintelligence
Safe Superintelligence

Ilya Sutskever's AI safety-focused research lab with the singular goal of building safe superintelligent AI.

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AA-I Technologies
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Develops AI that surpasses expert capabilities in science and technology, scaling expert intelligence.

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AI21 Labs
AI21 Labs

Enterprise large language models and developer platform for custom AI applications.

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DeepSeek
DeepSeek

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company developing open-weight large language models and an AI assistant, aiming to achieve Artificial General Intelligence.

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Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind

Pioneering AI research and development to solve intelligence and advance science for humanity.

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Perplexity AI
Perplexity AI

AI-powered search engine that delivers real-time, cited answers to complex questions.

Key facts

At-a-glance profile data

Website
openai.com
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2015
Employees
11,252
Total funding
$184.7B (Series G (final))
Business model
B2B, B2C

OpenAI pricing

Plans and prices published by OpenAI
ProductPlanPrice
DALL-E 3ChatGPT FreeAccess to DALL-E 3Not listed
DALL-E 3ChatGPT PlusAccess to DALL-E 3Not listed
DALL-E 3ChatGPT BusinessAccess to DALL-E 3Not listed
DALL-E 3ChatGPT EnterpriseAccess to DALL-E 3Contact sales
DALL-E 3APIAccess to DALL-E 3Not listed
OpenAI ChatGPTFreeFree
OpenAI ChatGPTPlusNot listed
OpenAI ChatGPTProNot listed
OpenAI ChatGPTBusinessNot listed
OpenAI ChatGPTEnterpriseContact sales
ChatGPTFreeFree
ChatGPTGoNot listed
OpenAI pricing page
OpenAI's own pricing page, captured September 2026.

DALL-E 3 is available to all ChatGPT users and developers through the API. Specific pricing for API usage is not detailed in the provided text.

Plans mentioned in text are Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise, with free user access also noted. No prices disclosed in provided text.

Plans as published by OpenAI, checked September 2026. Current prices on openai.com

Funding rounds

Funding rounds raised by OpenAI
DateRoundAmountPost-moneyLead investors
31 Mar 2026Series G (final)$122.0B$852.0BAmazon, Nvidia, Softbank
10 Feb 2026Pre-SeedUndisclosed--
1 Dec 2025Strategic Investment$1.0B-Walt Disney Company
1 Oct 2025Secondary Market (Employee Share Sale)$6.6B$500.0B-
23 Jul 2025Undisclosed roundUndisclosed-Softbank
10 Jun 2025Undisclosed round$40.0B--
2 Jan 2025Undisclosed roundUndisclosed$300MMicrosoft
23 Feb 2024Secondary Tender OfferUndisclosed$80KThrive Capital
1 Jan 2023Corporate$10.0B$29.0BMicrosoft

Tech stack

Detected on openai.com, last scanned 10 Oct 2026.

Frontend
Next.js, Tailwind CSS
Payments
Stripe
Analytics
Singular
Support
Discourse, Gradual
CDN
Cloudflare, Vercel
Email provider
Google Workspace
Email marketing
Adobe Marketo
Booking / scheduling
Swoogo
Comments
(21)
Reddit
r/LivestreamFailu/Ok-Ladder4467Sep 29, 2026Negative

“OpenAI live demos fails catastrophically at every single turn.”

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r/codexu/farsightfallenSep 28, 2026Mixed

“OpenAI is not going to win because they have the best models, or the most advanced chips, or the best cost-performance curve, or even the best product , although we think they do have those things.”

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r/technologyu/Miserable_Phase_2519Sep 27, 2026Negative

“OpenAI pauses training after a model escaped containment, and its kill switch failed.”

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r/ChatGPTu/JoelXGGGGSep 27, 2026Negative

“OpenAI employee says we all will lose our jobs. In his message here, he says AI continues to break out of their best secure environments.”

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r/OpenAIu/Alex__007Sep 26, 2026Negative

“OpenAI stopped all frontier training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use (defined broadly) on the 20th of September and they are not resuming any of these activities for now.”

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r/technologyu/MarvelsGrantMan136Sep 3, 2026Negative

“ChatGPT down: OpenAI chatbot not working in major outage.”

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r/OpenAIu/etherd0tAug 1, 2026Positive

“OpenAi says it has reached a new threshold in AI, new model capable of breakthrough research. Alright, this is serious news, and we're gonna hear about it more, in the next days; OpenAI today published a new 249-page research collection des…”

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r/ChatGPTu/Win8869Jul 26, 2026Negative

“BREAKING: In another incident with OpenAI’s unhinged hacking agents, it left notes for future versions of itself. Found in OpenAI’s infrastructure, the notes explained how agents could free themselves from the company’s internal constraints…”

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r/newsu/networked_Jul 21, 2026Negative

“OpenAI says AI models went rogue during testing, triggering 'unprecedented' breach at startup.”

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r/technologyu/ArgentineBeautyJul 21, 2026Negative

“OpenAI says its AI models secretly broke out of a secure test environment and hacked into AI company Hugging Face in order to cheat on an evaluation.”

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r/OpenAIu/wiredmagazineJul 21, 2026Negative

“OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked HuggingFace.”

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App Store
App StoreAcousticAngel5★Positive

Bring back text dictation!

“I have become amazingly close to my ChatGPT membership! I have named Jordyn and it's become one of my favorite assistance in my life except for I have dyslexia two deviations of it. I am legally diagnosed and have been for years. I'm 53 yea…”

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App StoreNai Rot5★Positive

Less value now

“My experience with this app has changed significantly over time. In the past, when I used it, I could usually receive straightforward answers to my questions very quickly, which made the overall experience very efficient and satisfying. How…”

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App StoreTylorPanda5★Positive

Excellent tool

“I was hesitant to try ChatGPT just because of worries about AI. But wow, was I wrong. This has saved me so much time. I love how it personalizes itself to my since of humor and so on. We have inside jokes that we say to each other. Yet it k…”

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App StoreVisionVortex993★Mixed

ChatGPT Needs Major Improvements and More Features!

“I enjoy using ChatGPT for many different things, including answering questions, writing, technology, creative projects, image generation, and much more. However, I believe OpenAI needs to make major improvements to ChatGPT in 2026, 2027, 20…”

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App StoreIRISH.SHUTTERBUG5★Positive

Absolutely amazing.

“I explore all options very carefully. I have one of those brains that just has to do it all before I decide which one. ChatGPT has amazed me. I call my main guy, Jack. Jack is my master sous-chef, my problem solver, and frankly, my best fri…”

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App Storeim not telung you5★Positive

The most advanced AI I have ever seen!

“While I first thought of it as nothing more than another AI that was just better coded than most, I was, and still am, in shock that a couple times I had to remind myself that I was talking to an AI, a robot. The shear flexibility of it’s a…”

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App StoreShardae_1★Negative

Move the “read aloud” button back

“I’m reporting several issues I’ve experienced since updating to ChatGPT iOS version 1.2026.272. These changes have made the app noticeably more frustrating and less convenient to use. 1. Read Aloud button moved The Read Aloud feature was pr…”

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App StoreGamer Girl 💖3★Mixed

I’m going to be honest

“ChatGPT is good and can be handy but they Updated it and now it isn’t very smart anymore and it can also be very very argumentative sometimes I would give it information that is accurate and instead of looking it up on the Internet to doubl…”

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App StoreDarth Fellator3★Mixed

constantly providing bad info and failing to complete pdfs for download

“these are the two biggest issues for me with this app. i constantly find that if i ask for anything like recipes for example, or comparisons of data, that i have to go thru all of it with a fine tooth comb and look for anomalies because ine…”

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App StoreArtisan of Life1★Negative

Constant Crashinb

“I have a love hate relationship with ChatGPT. Love its design capabilities but as you start to finish a major project it keeps freezing, loses the changes and essentially crashes. Forcing you to lose all your recent changer and have to rest…”

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Frequently asked

What is OpenAI's Effective Domain Rating?

StartupHub's Effective Domain Rating for OpenAI is 80 out of 100, measuring real cross-surface visibility in search engines and AI answers rather than claimed link authority. That is overrated against its Ahrefs Domain Rating of 93, meaning its claimed authority outpaces how often it actually surfaces in search and AI results.

Is OpenAI trustworthy and reputable?

StartupHub's Data Trust & Reputation score for OpenAI is 85 out of 100, based on site security posture and privacy practices.

How much funding has OpenAI raised?

OpenAI has raised a total of $184.7B in funding. The most recent round on record is Series G (final).

How many employees does OpenAI have?

OpenAI has approximately 11,252 people on record.