OpenAI gives ChatGPT Enterprise to the entire US federal workforce for $1

OpenAI and the General Services Administration announced that every agency in the US federal executive branch could obtain ChatGPT Enterprise for $1 per agency for a year, with an additional 60-day window of unlimited use of the product’s more advanced tools. The deal ran through the GSA’s OneGov programme, which negotiates software terms across the whole of government rather than agency by agency.

OpenAI positioned the offer as part of “OpenAI for Government” and tied it explicitly to the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan, which had called for wider adoption of AI tools inside federal agencies to cut down on manual paperwork and administrative overhead. The pricing meant the practical barrier to a federal office adopting ChatGPT Enterprise was procurement approval rather than cost, and the deal ran through the same OneGov mechanism the GSA used to negotiate government-wide software terms rather than agency-by-agency contracts.

The announcement came five days after Anthropic listed Claude for Enterprise and Claude for Government on the same GSA schedule, though without an equivalent headline price, and preceded Anthropic’s own expansion to $1 pricing across all three branches of government later in the month. Together the moves turned the federal government — one of the largest single employers and IT purchasers in the country — into a battleground for default adoption, with both companies effectively giving away a year of enterprise access to establish themselves before usage-based pricing or renewal terms applied.