ChatGPT Atlas Browser Review Features, Pricing, Pros & Cons

What is ChatGPT Atlas?

ChatGPT Atlas is a Chromium-based browser built by OpenAI that feels a lot like Google Chrome, but instead of Google Search, you have the full power of ChatGPT available everywhere you go.

Why Use ChatGPT Atlas?

Think of ChatGPT Atlas as more of an upgraded experience for the ChatGPT desktop app. Through that lens, it's a no-brainer to install and use.

For example, clicking on a link mid-chat expands the site to the left-hand-side, with chat sitting on the right. It's just a better user-experience than it popping you out to whatever default browser you have set:

From there you can easily ask additional questions about the site you're on, or even reference other open tabs along with browser history. And depending on how complex of a question you ask, their built-in AI agent mode can even pop in and start navigating and completing tasks for you.

Who Shouldn't Use ChatGPT Atlas?

Those who aren't actively using ChatGPT regularly, or don't have a paid tier of ChatGPT shouldn't give ChatGPT a shot, because it'll just feel like a far more restricted Comet browser (which doesn't require a paid account to get most of the same AI features).

They also don't have much going on with keyboard shortcuts, nor do they have any customization, so as someone coming from a highly customizable productivity browser like Arc Browser over to Atlas, I definitely feel the frustration at times.

When comparing it to the other agentic browsers in the space, e.g. Dia and Comet, Comet just feels way more fleshed out and refined in many of the micro interactions, from the import process, to using extensions, bookmarks, and you know, all those things that make a browser feel like a browser.

ChatGPT Atlas Features

ChatGPT Atlas has the same core features as ChatGPT, so I'm just going to cover the features specific to Atlas. If you want to learn more about ChatGPT's features you can check out the full ChatGPT review.

AI Agent Mode

The coolest feature is the ability to just tell Atlas what you'd like to do and it just takes control and does it. Tell it to add groceries from a recipe site you're on to your Amazon Fresh shopping cart and it'll just do it (very slowly, but you can do other thinks while it does that):

Now, will you use it a lot? Probably not, but when you come up with a use-case for it and it works, you actually see the "magic", and a peek into the future of how AI will improve our lives, from the area that we all live and breath within for many hours per day, our browser.

It makes searching and completing tasks feel more like a multi-player/collaborative experience. It's weird to get used to, but when you do, you start thinking of tons of different ways it can help out.

AI Chat

This is the most core feature of the browser that you can tell

In-fact, you can even highlight text in any input while writing (whether that be via email or in your website backend updating an article), and you can just tell it to rewrite that line or section. No more copy/pasting between the site you're on and ChatGPT and back:

Memory (Browser History)

With Atlas, all of your searches actually turn into ChatGPT history (alongside your normal chat threads), along with the sites you visit via the browser history.

This mixed with the memory that ChatGPT already has about you is what makes this feel more powerful than any other browser or AI Chatbot on the market.

Chat With Tabs

Instead of taking screenshots of the site you're on and asking ChatGPT for help one image at a time (yes, we all do that), you can simply pop open ChatGPT on any site and it has full visibility into the site. That, and you can even @ mention other tabs to add additional context to your query. It's tough to go back to the normal ChatGPT desktop app after using this.

ChatGPT Atlas Pricing

While Atlas is technically free, the features that you're probably seeing teased all over social media and the marketing videos are actually primarily paid (at least for now).

To unlock their AI agent functionality, you must be on ChatGPT Plus ($20/mo) or higher. The same goes for memory and file recall (prior uploaded documents) as well.

So while Atlas is free, it's a pretty restricted version of it.

This is where we'd recommend also giving Comet a shot, especially if you don't have a paid ChatGPT account already, because many of the AI agent features that Comet also has, are readily available to free users.

ChatGPT Atlas Final Verdict

Do you use ChatGPT? If yes, absolutely install Atlas browser, and just treat it as more of a replacement for the ChatGPT desktop app.

In-fact, use ChatGPT for work and personal, and have 2 separate accounts? Use Atlas to login to one of them, and the ChatGPT desktop app to login to the other one, and boom! You've now got built-in account switching (sorta).

If you're not a paying user of ChatGPT, then I'd recommend you give Comet browser by Perplexity a shot if you want to experience the AI agent mode and other agentic features without purchasing a paid subscription.

Perplexity often have pretty major Perplexity Pro offers going on (e.g. 12–months free, valued at $240) so it's pretty safe to say Comet + a paid Perplexity account is going to give you a better AI agentic browser experience than Atlas browser with a free ChatGPT account).