- Chatgpt-5 has a new thinking time for plus and pro users
- Pro users get four options in total and plus users get two
- Thinking time is currently a chatgpt web-art option
Openai has introduced a new timer that switches in the chatgpt message window when plus users choose the chatgpt-5 thinking model from the model selector. The train gard allows you to switch between standard and extended opportunities for thinking time.
Standard, which is the standard selection, balances the speed of intelligence, while the extended, which was the previous standard for Plus users, is also available.
Chatgpt Pro users get two additional settings: light (the snappiest available option) and tongue (which uses deeper reasoning).
The new thinking has been introduced in response to user feedback that Chatgpt spent too long in its thinking.
“We’ve heard from some of you that GPT-5 thinking answers can take longer than you would like. Now you can decide what you need at the moment,” says a message on the Openai site.
Light and default settings still use reasoning, but provide faster answers, while heavy and extended conditions give more time to deeper, more comprehensive answers that are useful when you ask more difficult questions.
How to change the speed of thinking
First, you need to be a plus or pro user to do this. If you are at the top of the chatgpt screen on the web, you see ‘Chatgpt-5’. If you click on this, you will have the opportunity to choose between Auto, Instant, Thinking Mini and Thinking Models.
Choose to think here, and then in the message window you should now see that a blue thinking option is shown with a drop-down menu from which you can change default and expansion settings.
Of course, Pro users will see two more options here.
It’s not on mobile
However, there is a major limitation with the new thinking time setting – you can only access it online for now.
If you look at iOS or Android apps, you will find that the feature is simply not available and it will not be any time soon. A message on the Openai website says: “We will bring this control to our iOS and Android apps in the coming weeks”.
Finally, we cannot imagine that the new thinking time shift will appear for chat for free level users soon-chat-gpt-5 thinking options will only be available when you upgrade to Plus or Pro. Currently, free users can only use chatgpt-5 in standard mode.
