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.…