OpenAI scraps the "ChatGPT for US government employees for $1" deal and moves to a 50% discount for 27 months
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SI in the US government has stopped being a symbolic-dollar experiment and become an ordinary line item in the budget.
The US General Services Administration (GSA) announced a new OneGov agreement: starting October 1, 2026, for 27 months agencies get ChatGPT with no platform fee and no minimum orders, but with a 50% discount on pay-as-you-go token usage. It is available to federal, state, local and tribal governments. The earlier pilot deals covered about 3.5 million federal employees and, by GSA's estimate, saved about $1.4 billion.
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