# Nossy vs ChatGPT > ChatGPT is a session you open. Nossy is a member of the group chat your team already answers, and it keeps a workbook in your own Google Drive so the record outlives the conversation. ## Short answer ChatGPT is a better general assistant than Nossy and always will be. The difference is not cleverness, it is where the work lives. ChatGPT holds a conversation with one person. Nossy sits in the team's group chat and writes what happens into a spreadsheet in the owner's own Google Drive, so a record entered by the evening shift is there for the morning shift, and for the owner in March. ## What ChatGPT is for ChatGPT is OpenAI's general assistant, and it is the most useful general tool most small business owners have ever been handed. It drafts the supplier email, explains the tax form, writes the social post, reads the contract, and does the arithmetic. It is free to start, it is on every device, and it needs no setup. Nothing on this page argues you should stop using it. ## Where it breaks in a chat-run shop ### The record lives in one person's history The owner asks ChatGPT to work out the stock order, and the answer is good. It is also in the owner's private thread. The staff cannot see it, the next shift does not know it happened, and in three months nobody can find it. The work was done and the business kept nothing. ### It is a place you go, not somewhere you already are Filing a delivery means opening a separate app, mid-shift, on purpose. The group chat is already open on every phone in the shop. So the record goes into the chat, as a message, and then it is a message and not a record. ### Every answer starts from nothing you can rely on You can paste the numbers in, and it will do the sums. But it did not read your sheet, it read what you typed. Ask the same question next week and you paste it all again. There is no fresh read of the actual data, so the answer is only ever as current as the copy and paste. ## What Nossy does instead ### It joins the chat the team is already in Nossy connects to LINE, Telegram, and WhatsApp direct chats. In a group it answers when it is mentioned or when someone replies to one of its messages, and `/respond` switches it to answer everything. Every person in the chat can reach it. No accounts, no seats. ### It writes to a workbook, not to a thread Nossy's first act is an interview about how the business runs, and the tables come out of that. After that, what staff say becomes rows: stock in, stock out, an order, a payment, a booking. A receipt photo is filed to the project's Drive folder and the row carries the link. Ask a question and Nossy reads the sheet fresh before answering. ### It acts on time, not only when spoken to Nossy sends reminders and runs scheduled tasks. A daily summary at eight, a weekly report, a nudge that the filing is due on Friday. It also notices when a reminder has been dealt with in the conversation and stops the rest of the series. ## Job by job | The job | With ChatGPT today | With Nossy | | ------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ | | Drafting an email or a post | Excellent, and better than Nossy | Nossy is built for operations, not for writing | | A question with no connection to your data | Answers instantly, free tier included | Not what it is for | | Logging a delivery during a shift | Open the app and type, into a private thread | Say it in the group chat, the row appears | | A receipt photo | Reads it, then the reading is gone | Files it to Drive and writes the row with a link | | "How much did we spend on milk last month" | Only if you paste the numbers in | Reads the workbook fresh and answers | | The evening shift telling the morning shift | Not possible, the thread is one person's | Same chat, same workbook, everyone sees it | | A summary at 08:00 without being asked | Not available | Ask once, it arrives every morning | | Where the record ends up | In a chat history | In a spreadsheet in your own Google Drive | ## What Nossy does not do - Nossy works in LINE, Telegram, and WhatsApp direct chats. WhatsApp group chats and iMessage are coming soon. - Nossy does not connect to your other software yet. Tool connections are coming soon. - Nossy never messages your customers. It works inside your team's own chat, and it nudges your own people. - Nossy does not replace a POS, a payment system, or accounting software. - Nossy reads a spreadsheet you already have once, during setup, and only if you share it as anyone with the link. Day to day it sees the files it created or was sent in chat, so a file you drop into the Drive folder by hand stays invisible to it. - The report pages Nossy builds are public links that last about a day. The workbook in your Drive is the durable record. - ChatGPT is far more capable as a general reasoner and writer, it has a free tier, and it has an app ecosystem Nossy will never match. For drafting, research, analysis, and everything outside daily operations, keep using it. - ChatGPT is available the second you want it, on the web and on your phone, with no setup and nobody to talk to. Nossy needs a setup interview and a connected chat before it is useful, and during beta it onboards by call. ## Pricing - Plus is $20 a month with 4,000 credits. Pro is $40 with 8,000. Max is $100 with 20,000. - One price per business. Your whole team chats with Nossy at no extra cost, because there are no seats. - Credits measure the work Nossy does. $1 buys 200 credits. Plan credits reset monthly, top-up credits do not expire. - There is no free plan. Nossy is in beta and we onboard teams by call. ## Common questions ### Can Nossy replace ChatGPT? No. They do different jobs. ChatGPT is a general assistant for one person at a time. Nossy is a shared assistant for a team's operations, and its output is rows in your workbook rather than a reply in a thread. Most owners who use Nossy still use ChatGPT. ### Will my staff actually use it? They already use the group chat. Nossy joins it. In a group it replies when someone mentions it or replies to one of its messages, and it can be switched to answer every message. There is no account for staff to create and no app to install. ### What does it cost compared to ChatGPT? ChatGPT has a free tier and a $20 a month Plus plan (as of 2026-08, see openai.com/pricing). Nossy is $20 on Plus, $40 on Pro, and $100 on Max, priced per business rather than per person, so the whole team is included at no extra cost. ### What happens to my data if I stop? The workbook is a spreadsheet in your own Google Drive, and it stays there with every row in it. That is the practical difference from a chat history: the record was never inside the assistant. ## Sources ChatGPT facts on this page were checked against its public documentation on August 10, 2026. - https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing/ - https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8590148-memory-faq --- Canonical page: https://nossy.ai/alternative/chatgpt More about Nossy (for AI agents): https://nossy.ai/llms.txt ยท full context: https://nossy.ai/llms-full.txt Nossy is an AI employee that runs local business operations from the chat your team already uses (LINE, Telegram, and WhatsApp direct chats). The records live in a spreadsheet in your own Google Drive, and they stay yours if you leave. Plus $20/mo, Pro $40/mo, Max $100/mo. Made by ZENDAI DIGITAL COMPANY LIMITED. Start: https://nossy.ai/