Revolut, the online bank from the UK, is giving its more than 75 million customers free access to the subscription of ChatGPT Go, which is usually priced at £7 a month.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Go is available to the customers of Revolut under different subscription options. Under this offer, Ultra and Metal customers get free access for a year; Premium and Revolut Pro subscribers get six months of free subscription; and Plus and Standard customers will get it for three months. Last but not least, Ultra customers get 12 months of Buddy Pass service. The latter means you can pass your plan access to another person.
ChatGPT Go is the mid-range ChatGPT bot service of OpenAI that allows users to access it for free, while it also offers additional features such as increased usage limits and the ability to upload files.
Tara Massoudi, Revolut’s partner and general manager for premium products, said the deal is meant to consolidate the multiple subscriptions customers otherwise juggle. Emmanuel Marill, OpenAI’s managing director for EMEA, described the partnership as a way to put ChatGPT in front of “millions of customers worldwide.”
“We’re excited to partner with Revolut to bring ChatGPT Go to its millions of customers worldwide, so they can use AI to make everyday life easier — from tackling life admin and planning trips to learning and creating. With this partnership even more people will be able to get even more from AI.”
Bundling as a distribution strategy
The more useful way to read this deal is as customer acquisition economics rather than corporate giveaway generosity. OpenAI is not simply gifting software; it is trading free trial months for a direct line into a subscriber base that already pays for financial services. When the free period lapses, some share of those users convert to paying ChatGPT customers — a funnel OpenAI would otherwise have to build through marketing spend. Revolut, in turn, gets a tangible perk to justify pushing customers toward its pricier subscription tiers, alongside the two other AI providers it already bundles.
This is not an isolated tactic. Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel struck a similar arrangement with Perplexity in mid-2025, offering a free 12-month Perplexity Pro subscription, worth roughly ₹17,000, to all 360 million of its customers. Austrian carrier Magenta has run a comparable bundle. The pattern points to AI labs increasingly buying distribution through banking and telecom “super-apps” — platforms with enormous, already-billed user bases, rather than relying solely on organic sign-ups or app-store discovery.
OpenAI’s push into European financial infrastructure extends beyond Revolut. Around the same period, the company also struck an arrangement with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), part of a broader effort to embed its models inside major European institutions rather than only its own consumer apps. LSEG combines OpenAI with its own global data platform to improve internal operations.
For Revolut, the ChatGPT Go bundle also builds on an existing AI presence: the bank already runs its own in-app assistant, reportedly powered in part by OpenAI’s models for functions like fraud monitoring and customer support. The ChatGPT Go perk is available globally, excluding the US and Brazil.
Neither company has disclosed the financial terms of the arrangement.
