OpenAI expands cheap ChatGPT access across US government

OpenAI and the US General Services Administration announced a multi-year agreement that expands the company’s OneGov offer across US public agencies.

The deal removes the standard per-user ChatGPT Enterprise license fee for eligible federal, state, local and tribal government organizations, while cutting usage costs in half. OpenAI says the expanded eligibility covers a public-sector workforce of roughly 23 million people.

The cyber-defense part is the most important detail. OpenAI says every verified government entity will be approved for Daybreak Blue access at discounted commercial pricing, with training and adoption support for teams protecting emergency response, transportation, public health, utilities and other critical systems. Advanced Daybreak Red access can also be requested for vulnerability research, exploit validation and red-teaming.

OpenAI frames the move as a way to make government services faster and safer while giving public servants access to current frontier models, including GPT-6 Astra. The company also says participating organizations keep enterprise protections: business data is not used to train models, and agencies get spend controls, onboarding help and usage guidance.

For the AI market, this is another sign that frontier labs are treating public-sector deployment as strategic infrastructure rather than ordinary SaaS sales.