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ChatGPT is an assistant you talk to, with scheduled tasks and an agent mode that can use a browser. SHAI is a roster of business agents that runs work on a schedule, hands back files, and calls you when it needs a decision.

Last verified 2026-09-16every row proved

Facts about ChatGPT are quoted from ChatGPT’s own pages on the dates shown. Facts about SHAI name the file in this repository that proves them. Nothing on this page is an opinion about ChatGPT.

OpenAI's own pages refuse a direct fetch from the environment this page was built in — HTTP 403 on 2026-09-16, to both a browser-shaped request and the fetch tool used for the other pages here. Every row below is cited to the OpenAI page it came from and dated, and the rows §C.9 asks for that could not be verified from those pages are simply absent: deliverables, memory, CRM depth, video, agencies and data exit are not compared here.

Where it lives

SHAI

done

A web portal and a phone line, not a single assistant surface: the portal for reading what the agents produced, and a call or a text for the moment one of them needs the owner to decide something. Slack, Teams and Discord ship in the codebase, unconfigured.

platform/apps/web/src/app/(portal)/chat/page.tsx · platform/apps/comms/src/index.ts · platform/apps/web/src/server/routers/slack.ts

ChatGPT

A web app, desktop and mobile apps, and a browser.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001277-using-the-built-in-browser-in-the-chatgpt-desktop-app — read 2026-09-16

A team, or an assistant

SHAI

done

95 named specialists across 11 squads, each a written skill file rather than a plugin installed into one general assistant, with a concierge that decides which one a request belongs to.

docs/agent-registry.json · docs/agent-registry.md · .claude/skills/shai/SKILL.md

ChatGPT

One assistant, with plugins and apps that add capabilities; OpenAI migrated its app directory to a plugin directory on 9 July 2026.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11487775-connectors-in-chatgpt — read 2026-09-16

Tasks and proposals

SHAI

done

A schedule stated in plain words with a per-task model and a projected monthly cost shown before it is saved, and a trade's own playbook proposes the first few, paused, rather than leaving the owner to invent a cadence from a blank screen.

platform/apps/web/src/server/routers/tasks.ts · platform/packages/proposals/src/index.ts · docs/playbooks/hvac.json

ChatGPT

Scheduled tasks handle reminders, recurring work, daily updates and monitoring, and can use supported apps including Gmail, Slack and GitHub. Event-triggered tasks are available on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10291617-scheduled-tasks-in-chatgpt — read 2026-09-16

Browser

SHAI

done

A real browser held open under its own profile per business rather than a shared agent mode, with a login the owner grants like handing a new hire a seat and an approval gate in front of anything that cannot be undone.

platform/packages/browser/src/index.ts · docs/platform/architecture.md

ChatGPT

Agent mode uses screenshots of a virtual browser to click buttons, fill forms and navigate sites; it is trained to ask before taking many important actions, and is available on Pro, Plus, Business, Enterprise and Edu.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11752874-chatgpt-agent — read 2026-09-16

Pricing, and who pays for tokens

SHAI

done

One access fee for the platform rather than a per-seat monthly price, with tokens billed by the model vendor at cost on the customer's own key instead of bundled into the subscription.

platform/apps/web/src/content/pricing.ts · platform/packages/billing/src/index.ts

ChatGPT

Per user per month. Standard Business seats are $25 per user per month billed monthly, or $20 billed annually; premium seats are $125 and $100.

https://openai.com/business/pricing/ — read 2026-09-16

Your data and the model

SHAI

done

The customer's own model key under their own vendor agreement. SHAI never trains on anything, because SHAI trains nothing — it runs somebody else's model on the customer's own account.

platform/packages/models/src/policy.ts · platform/apps/web/src/content/security.ts · docs/platform/secrets-audit.md

ChatGPT

For Business, Enterprise and Edu, OpenAI does not use information accessed from connectors to train models by default. For Free, Plus, Go and Pro, OpenAI may use information accessed from apps to train its models if the “Improve the model for everyone” setting is on.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11487775-connectors-in-chatgpt — read 2026-09-16

Where ChatGPT is the better pick

  • For thinking out loud, drafting, research and everyday questions, ChatGPT is the better tool and it is not close. SHAI is not a chat assistant and does not try to be one.
  • If you want one subscription that does a bit of everything for one person, ChatGPT is cheaper and simpler than an access fee plus your own model key.
  • ChatGPT reaches far more of the internet through its plugin and app directory than SHAI reaches through connections a person pastes a key into.
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Sources

Every one of these is ChatGPT’s own page. If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and it is corrected with a new date rather than quietly edited.