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OpenAI ChatGPT Edu
All Stanford faculty, students, postdocs, and staff will be able to access OpenAI ChatGPT starting June 30, 2026. Learn more about this AI service launch.
ChatGPT EDU is a version of ChatGPT designed specifically for universities, enabling Stanford to apply AI-powered approaches responsibly across teaching, learning, and research. This new offering from OpenAI is another accessible option for the community to adopt AI at scale, including the ability to build custom versions of ChatGPT for specific projects, courses, or tasks.
Features
- OpenAI Models: Use OpenAI’s models to investigate questions, compare evidence, analyze text, images, and data, and develop materials. Useful for literature reviews, proposal development, problem-solving, and analysis.
- ChatGPT Work: Delegate substantial projects and produce documents, spreadsheets, presentations, course resources, committee materials, grant content, recurring reports, or research and analysis.
- Codex: Write, explain, test, and improve code using natural language. Codex can automate workflows and, where enabled, work with approved remote workstations, development environments, and research computing resources.
- Plugins and Skills: Connect ChatGPT with approved research, data, teaching, and collaboration tools, and create reusable workflows for literature reviews, analysis, course preparation, reporting, and other work.
- Image Generation, Slides and Spreadsheets: Generate and iterate on artifacts using references and natural language.
- Computer Use: ChatGPT can navigate approved websites and software to complete repetitive, multistep research and administrative workflows under the user’s direction.
- Automations: Schedule workflows for recurring work such as monitoring new research, preparing lab or project updates, refreshing course materials, and compiling regular reports using available plugins and connectors.
- Data Analysis and Interactive Visualizations: Clean and analyze datasets, identify patterns, create charts and diagrams, and build interactive explanations that make research findings and complex concepts easier to explore.
Designed for
The Standard tier is free to all active faculty, students, postdocs, and staff.
The Standard tier for affiliates is available to visiting scholars, affiliates, fellows, and other affiliations who are not eligible for the paid Standard tier.
The Pro tier is available to all active SUNet IDs with a valid PTA.
Requirements
An active SUNet ID
Data security
ChatGPT Edu is approved for low, moderate, and high-risk and protected health information (PHI) data. This covers the vast majority of everyday academic, research, and administrative work. Your conversations are not used to train OpenAI’s models and include additional copyright protections.
Rates
Please see the ChatGPT Edu rates information page for more details.
Get started
Use the links below to request the account that's right for your needs.
- Request a ChatGPT Edu Standard account for all active faculty, students, postdocs, and staff. This is the best option for most eligible users. It offers no cost access to the same models and features, as the $20 per month Enterprise plan.
- Request ChatGPT Edu Standard affiliate account for visiting scholars, affiliates, fellows, and other groups not covered under the Standard tier.
Request a ChatGPT Edu Pro account. For users who need higher usage limits. This is a paid offering that is comparable to the $200 per month Enterprise plan.
Use the link below to make changes to an existing ChatGPT Edu Pro account.
Get help
For assistance with your Stanford ChatGPT Edu account, please submit a Help request.
Learn more
Review the following resources to help you get the most out of your ChatGPT Edu experience:
More information about OpenAI products:
