ChatGPT Tasks: How to Use Scheduled Tasks, and the Limits by Plan (2026)
ChatGPT scheduled tasks let ChatGPT run an instruction later, once or on a repeat, or watch for changes and notify you. To create one, ask ChatGPT for something in the future, such as "Let me know when my package is delivered," or open Scheduled in the sidebar. Every plan now includes them: 3 active tasks on Free and Go, 5 on Plus, 10 on Business and Edu, and 15 on Pro and Enterprise (OpenAI Help Center, September 2026). Free tasks run at most once a day in flexible windows such as morning or night; exact times and hourly repeats need an eligible paid plan.
Tasks changed twice in 2026. On June 17, OpenAI added the Scheduled page, time windows, and monitoring tasks, and began sunsetting Pulse. On August 25, it opened tasks to Free users, added task sharing, and added event-triggered tasks that react to Gmail, Slack, and GitHub activity in ChatGPT Work. This guide reflects those changes, and every step and limit below comes from OpenAI's own Help Center and release notes, linked in the sources at the end.
By Adi Leviim, Co-Founder at Infi Developments. 7+ years building AI productivity tools. Published May 31, 2026, last reviewed September 15, 2026.
What Are ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks?
A scheduled task is an instruction ChatGPT carries out at a future time instead of right now. OpenAI describes four kinds:
One-time tasks: a reminder or a piece of work at a set time, for example a summary tomorrow morning.
Recurring tasks: the same instruction on a repeat, such as a daily briefing. Eligible paid plans can repeat up to once per hour; Free repeats at most once per day.
Monitoring tasks: ChatGPT checks for changes and notifies you only when a relevant update occurs. They can use information from previous runs and stop when a defined end condition is met.
Event-triggered tasks: tasks that run in ChatGPT Work when something happens in a connected Gmail, Slack, or GitHub account.
Tasks can use supported connected apps, and on accounts with ChatGPT Health or ChatGPT Finances they can draw on that information, for example a portfolio update after the market closes. Connecting a financial account to ChatGPT Finances may even create a "Weekly finances update" task for you, which you can pause or delete on the Scheduled page.
Date
What changed in ChatGPT tasks
June 17, 2026
New Scheduled page in the sidebar; specific times or broader windows (morning, afternoon, evening); monitoring tasks; tasks cannot run more than once per hour; unattended tasks may pause; Pulse sunset
July 9, 2026
ChatGPT Work launched; Work can run once, on a schedule or trigger, or monitor for changes through Scheduled Tasks
August 25, 2026
Free users get up to three active tasks; task sharing; webhook-triggered tasks for Gmail, Slack, and GitHub
ChatGPT Task Limits by Plan
The number of active tasks depends on your plan, and Free tasks follow looser timing. These are the limits in OpenAI's "Scheduled tasks in ChatGPT" article as of September 2026:
Plan
Active tasks
Fastest repeat and timing
Event-triggered tasks
Free
3
Once per day, flexible windows (morning, afternoon, night)
Not available
Go
3
OpenAI does not state separate timing rules for Go
Not available
Plus
5
Up to once per hour, exact delivery times
Available with Work
Business
10
Up to once per hour, exact delivery times
Available with Work
Edu
10
Up to once per hour, exact delivery times
Available once an admin enables them
Pro
15
Up to once per hour, exact delivery times
Available with Work
Enterprise
15
Up to once per hour, exact delivery times
Available once an admin enables them
A few rules apply on every plan:
At the limit: pause or delete an active task, or wait for one to finish, before you create or resume another.
Event-triggered volume: up to 30 runs per hour and 720 per day across all of your event-triggered tasks, and multiple events may be grouped together.
Models: tasks support eligible ChatGPT models, and OpenAI says model availability and usage limits depend on the task, plan, and workspace settings.
Ask ChatGPT to do something at a future time, or start from the Scheduled page. OpenAI notes that availability depends on your account, app, and app version.
Open a chat, or go to Scheduled in the sidebar.
Describe the action and when it should happen, for example "Every weekday at 8am, summarize the top news in my industry" or "Let me know when my package is delivered." On Free, ask for a window such as morning rather than an exact time.
ChatGPT creates the task and shows a confirmation in the chat.
To choose how you hear about results, go to Settings, Notifications and select Push, Email, or both.
If ChatGPT warns that browser notifications are off, select Allow and approve your browser's permission prompt.
Two details catch people out. A task created inside a project cannot access files uploaded to or stored in that project, so paste what the task needs into the instructions. And to get mobile push notifications, OpenAI says to create the task in a supported ChatGPT mobile app and grant notification permission when prompted.
Where to Find Your Scheduled Tasks in ChatGPT
All of your tasks are listed on the Scheduled page in the ChatGPT sidebar. From there you can create tasks, review results and schedules, and pause, resume, edit, or delete a task. There are two other ways in:
From Settings: go to Settings, Notifications, then select Manage tasks.
From a conversation: select the more options menu (...) and choose See scheduled tasks.
If Scheduled does not appear in the ChatGPT desktop app, OpenAI's advice is to use ChatGPT on the web; availability depends on the app, app version, and account. The desktop app can display existing event-triggered tasks but cannot create or edit their trigger conditions. Codex uses its own, separate automations.
How to Edit, Pause, or Delete a ChatGPT Task
Select the task title in its conversation to open the task panel, or open the task on the Scheduled page. The task panel lets you edit, pause, manage, or delete the task, and Scheduled lets you resume a paused one.
Why a task pauses on its own, according to OpenAI:
It has been inactive.
It needs additional action, for example an app action that sends a message or changes external data and requires your approval.
Its associated chat was deleted.
The link between tasks and chats runs one way. Deleting the chat pauses the task (and does not delete any shared link to it), while deleting the task from Scheduled does not delete the chat. Keep that in mind before a big cleanup: if you bulk delete old conversations, a chat that backs a task will pause it. Our guide to archiving ChatGPT chats explains the difference between archiving and deleting.
ChatGPT Task Notifications: Push, Email, and Browser Alerts
Task notifications are set in Settings, Notifications, where you choose Push, Email, or both. Web notifications also need browser permission: if it is disabled, ChatGPT shows a notice with an Allow button, and your browser may ask you to confirm. Mobile push requires creating the task in a supported ChatGPT mobile app and granting notification permission when prompted.
You do not have to turn off all ChatGPT notifications to stop one task. OpenAI's own example is the automatic Weekly finances update: pause or delete that task on the Scheduled page, or open it through Settings, Notifications, Manage tasks. OpenAI does not document whether a task keeps running when every notification channel is off, so if a task should stop, pause or delete it rather than relying on notification settings.
Event-Triggered Tasks in ChatGPT Work (Gmail, Slack, GitHub)
Event-triggered tasks run in ChatGPT Work and respond to supported app activity instead of a clock. They are available to eligible Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu users and in ChatGPT for Healthcare workspaces, not on Free or Go, and not in FedRAMP workspaces.
Go to Settings, Apps and connect a supported Gmail, Slack, or GitHub account.
Open Work and describe the event and the action ChatGPT should take.
Review the Trigger, Condition, and Prompt, and complete any required authorization.
Go to Scheduled to review, edit, pause, or delete the task.
Gmail tasks can respond to a new message or filter by sender or subject. Slack tasks respond to new channel messages, and you must add @ChatGPT to each monitored channel. GitHub tasks respond to supported pull request activity in an authorized github.com repository. Enterprise, Edu, and ChatGPT for Healthcare admins must turn on "Allow event-triggered scheduled tasks" first, and in ChatGPT for Healthcare these tasks are off by default and not covered under a Business Associate Agreement. For more on Work itself, see our guide to AI for work and the ChatGPT workflow automation guide.
How to Share a Scheduled Task
Sharing a task sends a link so someone else can review its instructions and schedule their own separate copy. OpenAI lists task sharing for eligible Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu users.
Go to Scheduled.
Find the task and select the more options menu (...).
Select Share, review the details in the Share task dialog, and select Copy link.
Send the link to the person you want to share it with.
The link carries a snapshot of the task title, instructions, schedule, and original time zone. It does not include your name, chat history, previous results, saved memories, custom instructions, files, or connected app data. Anyone who can open a personal-account link can read the full instructions, so keep passwords, account numbers, and health or financial details out of them. Completed tasks cannot be newly shared, and editing the original does not update the link until you copy it again.
What Scheduled Tasks Do Well, and Their Limits
Scheduled tasks are now a solid built-in way to get reminders, recurring summaries, and change alerts, on every plan including Free. What they do well: they run without you opening ChatGPT, they notify you by push or email, monitoring tasks stay quiet until something changes, and sharing lets a team reuse a good task.
The limits worth knowing before you depend on them:
Free and Go stop at 3 active tasks, and Free timing is a window rather than an exact time.
Voice chats and GPTs are not supported.
Tasks created in a project cannot read that project's files.
Scheduled tasks, shared task links, and their snapshots are not included in personal account data exports.
The desktop app may not show Scheduled, and it cannot create or edit event triggers.
Tasks can pause on their own when inactive, when waiting for approval, or when their chat is deleted.
Keep Task Instructions and Results Organized with AI Toolbox
AI Toolbox does not create or run ChatGPT tasks; OpenAI's Scheduled page does that. Where AI Toolbox (formerly ChatGPT Toolbox), a Chrome extension with 40,000+ users and a 4.7/5 Chrome Web Store rating, helps is around the tasks: keeping the instructions you wrote and the chats they live in.
Need
Native ChatGPT
AI Toolbox Free
AI Toolbox Premium
Keep a copy of task instructions
Not in the data export
2 saved prompts, inserted with the // shortcut
No 2-prompt cap
Group chats tied to tasks
Projects
2 root folders, unlimited subfolders, added by search
Unlimited folders
Find a phrase from an old result
ChatGPT search
Full-text search, 5 results per query
Unlimited results
Export a chat to a file
Full account export
Single chat as TXT
TXT, Markdown, JSON, PDF, and bulk export
Save the instructions: because data exports skip scheduled tasks, store each task's instructions as a saved prompt. Type // in any chat to insert it when you recreate or adjust a task. See how to build a ChatGPT prompt library.
Group the chats: each task is tied to a chat, so you can add those chats to a folder by searching for them. See ChatGPT folders.
Clean up carefully: AI Toolbox's Manage Chats panel deletes a selection of chats at once (5 per action on Free). Deleting a chat that backs a task pauses that task, so check Scheduled first; the bulk delete guide covers the panel.
Wrote a task prompt that works? Keep it where you can reuse it. AI Toolbox saves prompts with a // shortcut, organizes chats into folders, and searches the messages in your active ChatGPT chats, on Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, and Arc. Free plan available; Premium $9.99 per month. See AI Toolbox plans or add it from the Chrome Web Store.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are ChatGPT tasks?
ChatGPT tasks, now called scheduled tasks, let ChatGPT run an instruction at a future time, once or on a repeat, monitor for changes, or respond to supported app events. You create them by asking ChatGPT for something later or from the Scheduled page, and results arrive by push, email, or both.
Are ChatGPT scheduled tasks free?
Yes. Since August 25, 2026, Free users can have up to three active scheduled tasks. Free tasks run once or recur no more than once per day, using flexible windows such as morning, afternoon, or night. Exact delivery times, hourly repeats, and event-triggered tasks need an eligible paid plan.
How many scheduled tasks can I have in ChatGPT?
It depends on your plan: 3 active tasks on Free and Go, 5 on Plus, 10 on Business and Edu, and 15 on Pro and Enterprise. At the limit, pause or delete an active task, or wait for one to finish, before creating or resuming another.
Where do I find my scheduled tasks in ChatGPT?
Open Scheduled in the ChatGPT sidebar. You can also go to Settings, Notifications, then Manage tasks, or select the more options menu in a conversation and choose See scheduled tasks. If Scheduled is missing in the desktop app, use ChatGPT on the web.
How do I turn off notifications for a ChatGPT task?
Go to Settings, Notifications and choose Push, Email, or both for task notifications. To stop a single task, such as the automatic Weekly finances update, pause or delete it on the Scheduled page instead. You do not need to turn off all ChatGPT notifications.
Why did my ChatGPT task pause?
OpenAI says a task may pause if it is inactive, needs additional action such as approving an app action, or its associated chat was deleted. Go to Scheduled to resume, edit, or delete it. Deleting the task itself does not delete its chat.
Can ChatGPT tasks use GPTs or voice?
No. OpenAI lists voice chats and GPTs as not supported by scheduled tasks. Tasks can use supported connected apps such as Gmail, Slack, and GitHub when those are available for your account, but a task created in a project cannot access that project's files.
What is the difference between scheduled tasks and Codex automations?
Scheduled tasks run in ChatGPT and handle reminders, recurring work, daily updates, and monitoring. Codex automations run in Codex. OpenAI documents them as a separate feature, so use Scheduled for ChatGPT tasks and Codex for automations in software projects.
Bottom Line
ChatGPT scheduled tasks are no longer paid-only: every plan can run them, from 3 active tasks on Free to 15 on Pro and Enterprise. Ask ChatGPT for something later, manage it from Scheduled, and set Push or Email in Settings, Notifications. Keep your own copy of instructions you rely on, since exports do not include tasks, and remember that deleting a task's chat pauses the task.
A Full Stack Developer with 7+ years of experience building AI productivity tools. Leads product development and frontend architecture for AI Toolbox, the Chrome extension suite (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude modules) that helps users search, organize, and export their AI conversations.
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