ChatGPT Work
Shares rank 10 of 26 AI agents by recommenders
People recommend it for slide decks, background tasks and document editing, included with a paid ChatGPT subscription. Critics most often say its overlap with Chat and Codex is confusing.
People recommend it for slide decks, background tasks and document editing, included with a paid ChatGPT subscription. Critics most often say its overlap with Chat and Codex is confusing.
56 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 16
- criticize it
- 40
- approval share
- 29%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 16 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Makes slide decks and documents
“It can make a hundred slide deck for me with speaker notes and visual verification of each slide, all without breaking a sweat.”
Comment from 31 Aug 2026 in “Understanding ChatGPT Work” “does a much better job of editing google docs than the pure Chat”
Comment from 31 Aug 2026 in “Understanding ChatGPT Work” Included with paid subscription
“the Work that comes with their existing paid ChatGPT subscription is a more convenient option”
Comment from 31 Aug 2026 in “Understanding ChatGPT Work” “ChatGPT Work Cloud gives you that computer as part of your existing subscription.”
Comment from 31 Aug 2026 in “Understanding ChatGPT Work” Runs tasks in background
“It's incredibly useful. I can remote in from the app, voice it instructions, then let it work in the background.”
Comment from 31 Aug 2026 in “Understanding ChatGPT Work” “it's great for, for example, following up on emails you might not care about”
Comment from 23 Oct 2026 in “Meta Muse hits 10M users”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Confusing overlap with Chat and Codex
“I've been really liking "Work", but also scratching my head about some very obvious overlap/duplicated functionality across Chat, Work, and Codex”
Comment from 31 Aug 2026 in “Understanding ChatGPT Work” “Expecting non-devs to understand that distinction - especially when these features are visually indistinguishable from each other - is entirely unreasonable”
Comment from 31 Aug 2026 in “Understanding ChatGPT Work” “the feature is marketed in such a confusing way to the general public, that it takes a post on a personal blog to actually explain it”
Comment from 31 Aug 2026 in “Understanding ChatGPT Work” - Comment from 9 Jul 2026 in “ChatGPT Work”
Chats hard to reach now
“Chats that are about topics other than programming projects are relegated to a tiny, unsearchable popup window.”
Comment from 9 Jul 2026 in “ChatGPT Work” “mainly because I used chats for ad-hoc search queries. Now it's hard to reach.”
Comment from 9 Jul 2026 in “ChatGPT Work” “The old ChatGPT projects of my chats are gone, only appearing on the web.”
Comment from 9 Jul 2026 in “ChatGPT Work” Metered usage and monthly fee
“They're trying to encourage people to use "Work" because chat is free and Work is metered.”
Comment from 31 Aug 2026 in “Understanding ChatGPT Work” “with Muse's free version I can create iPhone apps unlike chatGPT Work which I pay $20 a month for.”
Comment from 29 Sep 2026 in “OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns” Unclear value for many users
“I've desperately tried to use the Claude work, ChatGPT work, even OpenClaw, and I've yet to find a meaningful use of such an assistant”
Comment from 9 Sep 2026 in “Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent” “If I had an actual workflow i'd prefer a dedicated tool over the newest chatgpt 'do everything' app.”
Comment from 31 Aug 2026 in “Understanding ChatGPT Work”
Other AI agents people recommend
The four most recommended other AI agents, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenClaw | 776 | 975 | 44% | 10 | 1 mo49 owners | — |
| Muse by Meta | 147 | 232 | 39% | 6 | 1 mo4 owners | — |
| Hermes Agent by Nous Research | 84 | 28 | 75% | 9 | 1 mo8 owners | Approved |
| Clawdbot | 69 | 99 | 41% | 3 | 1 mo7 owners | — |
| ChatGPT WorkThis page | 16 | 40 | 29% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
40 of the 65 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it's great for, for example, following up on emails you might not care about”
“It took me a week to tweak it, but now it works.”
“with Muse's free version I can create iPhone apps unlike chatGPT Work which I pay $20 a month for.”
“I've desperately tried to use the Claude work, ChatGPT work, even OpenClaw, and I've yet to find a meaningful use of such an assistant”
“I learned a ton of useful things about ChatGPT Work by having it dump out its tool descriptions”
“I've been really liking "Work", but also scratching my head about some very obvious overlap/duplicated functionality across Chat, Work, and Codex”
“ChatGPT Work Cloud gives you that computer as part of your existing subscription.”
“Anyone using ChatGPT Work given Sam Altman's richly documented history”
“users genuinely won’t know when their filesystem will be touched”
“the Work that comes with their existing paid ChatGPT subscription is a more convenient option”
“It's a beefy 20GB 9CPU machine, why waste all that precious RAM?”
“the feature is marketed in such a confusing way to the general public, that it takes a post on a personal blog to actually explain it”
“work mode can store information in a local file then reuse them later”
“Expecting non-devs to understand that distinction - especially when these features are visually indistinguishable from each other - is entirely unreasonable”
“the simplest answer to what ChatGPT Work is seems to be a panic-clone of Claude Cowork”
“They're trying to encourage people to use "Work" because chat is free and Work is metered.”
“Contrary to its name, "ultrafast" isn't faster than the rest”
“If something goes wrong, I then just upload the log to ChatGPT so that it can fix it.”
“does a much better job of editing google docs than the pure Chat”
“The ChatGPT Work model would actually feel safer to me if they created a privacy boundary”
“I recently figured out that I could use ChatGPT Work on my Pixel Phone to build native Android apps.”
“If I had an actual workflow i'd prefer a dedicated tool over the newest chatgpt 'do everything' app.”
“It can make a hundred slide deck for me with speaker notes and visual verification of each slide, all without breaking a sweat.”
“It's incredibly useful. I can remote in from the app, voice it instructions, then let it work in the background.”
“My accountant friend says it’s amazing”
“I can imagine something like ChatGPT Work with markdown/python/CSV's can do quite some magic for such writers.”
“It seems strange that both Anthropic and OpenAI would want to split their products in this way.”
“Over my long career, this may take the cake when it comes to all time software turds.”
“Given the product judgment shown in this particular release”
“Not allowing full screen is the most insane thing for a “chat app ported from the web””
“it's 100% unclear what's the difference between Codex and Work”
“an AI that can write your quarterly report and also gaslight you”
“mainly because I used chats for ad-hoc search queries. Now it's hard to reach.”
“the unification is great because now ChatGPT chats are usable”
“The old ChatGPT projects of my chats are gone, only appearing on the web.”
“It's completely unclear even if I was using the app for "work" rather than "coding"”
“The best of Microsoft's naming schemes, now coming to your LLM chatbot.”
“Chats that are about topics other than programming projects are relegated to a tiny, unsearchable popup window.”
“switching between the newly named "ChatGPT Work" vs "ChatGPT Code" mostly just seems to increase the verbosity of technical outputs”
“OpenAI clearly failed to consult ChatGPT for branding advice.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.