OpenAI Launches Rosalind Academic Plan for U.S. University Labs

OpenAI introduced the Rosalind Academic Plan on October 15, 2026, giving eligible academic labs at U.S. universities up to 30 complimentary ChatGPT Business Standard seats for up to 12 months, with GPT-Rosalind access contingent on trusted-access approval. The plan bundles the seats, priced at $0 per user per month during the complimentary period, with use of every commercially available frontier OpenAI model within the plan’s usage limits.

OpenAI says it does not use research data shared through the plan to train its models by default. According to OpenAI’s help center guide for the program, a Standard seat includes ChatGPT and Codex subject to their existing usage limits, and the complimentary offer does not remove those limits. A payment card is required during offer setup even though the seats carry no charge for the 12 months.

The offer includes no API credits or API usage, and plan approval does not grant GPT-Rosalind access through the API. Thirty seats is the maximum in a single workspace, and labs needing more are directed to contact OpenAI Support rather than create a separate paid…