ChatGPT gets agents that keep working on their own cloud computer

OpenAI unveiled Dots on September 29, 2026, at its DevDay developer conference in San Francisco. The rollout began the same day and is happening gradually, so it may take several days before all accounts have access.

A dot is an always-on agent in ChatGPT. In other words, it can keep working even when you are not in a conversation with it. It has its own cloud computer and its own browser, and it uses ChatGPT's memory. It runs on the GPT-6 Astra model and can connect to more than 4,000 apps through OpenAI's plugin ecosystem.

How to use it

Users can message or call their dot through ChatGPT on desktop, web and mobile, and message it through Slack and Teams. According to Windows Mode, text messaging is planned for later. Dots work in the ChatGPT app for iPhone and Android, in the desktop app and in a browser on a computer, but not in mobile web browsers.

On mobile, you open dots in the app and follow the introduction. You can give your dot a name or use the defaults, and connect plugins right away or later.

The dot can provide status updates and notifications, and the user can follow the dot's cloud computer in real time. When it is idle, it can do research on its own, but only with read-only permissions. If you grant permission, it can also access your own computer. This is optional, and only one personal computer can be connected.

Dots can also start new work in Codex, OpenAI's programming tool, and follow up on existing threads. Local Codex tasks require the computer to be online with ChatGPT open, while Codex work in the cloud runs independently.

Price and access

Access requires ChatGPT Pro (Pro 100, 200 or 500) for users aged 18 or older outside the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, or Business Premium. That means Danish users cannot, as a rule, get access on a personal subscription. Enterprise is rolling out globally but is turned off by default. There is also a beta for Enterprise, Edu and the health care sector once an administrator has enabled it.

According to Windows Mode, a user's first dot is included in the subscription. Pro starts at $100 a month, Pro 200 costs $200 and Pro 500 costs $500 a month. Additional dots and capacity will come at a price that has not yet been announced.

For the first month after launch, use of dots is exempt from the subscription's usage limits, according to SiliconANGLE, with terms to follow later. Nerdschalk, however, writes that only conversations with dots are exempt, while Work and Codex tasks count toward the limits.

Errors and limitations

OpenAI has built in automatic checks before the agents get access to accounts or share information, as well as a monitoring system that can pause or stop them. OpenAI also warns that agents can make mistakes and recommends that users review important work.

You get one main agent per person, and team features are coming later. Windows Mode points out that the competitor Grok's bot may be able to run multiple agents in parallel.