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ChatGPT costs BDT 2,200/month in Bangladesh. Here's the BDT 220 alternative.

DEV Community·brian austin·19 days ago
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ChatGPT costs BDT 2,200/month in Bangladesh. Here's the BDT 220 alternative. In Dhaka, BDT 2,200 is real money. It's three or four days of salary for a junior developer. It's a week of groceries. It's a meaningful chunk of a monthly budget. And that's exactly what OpenAI charges for ChatGPT Plus in Bangladesh — BDT 2,200+ per month. The math doesn't work for most Bangladeshi developers The global AI pricing problem is simple: these tools were priced for Silicon Valley salaries and exported everywhere else at the same rate. A developer in San Francisco paying $20/month for ChatGPT is spending about 0.04% of their monthly income. A developer in Dhaka paying the equivalent is spending 3-5% of their monthly income for the same tool. That's not a minor inconvenience. That's a structural barrier to access. What BDT 220/month actually looks like I built SimplyLouie specifically for this problem. BDT 220/month for Claude AI — the same underlying model that powers many enterprise AI tools.…

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