ChatGPT Ads Eligibility Checker

As of August 2026, ChatGPT Ads operates in 41 markets. Nine allow self-serve signup at ads.openai.com today: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and Mexico. Thirty-one covering the EEA plus Switzerland opened on 24 August 2026, where buying currently runs through OpenAI's Ads Solutions team and agency partners. India opened on 27 August 2026, with self-serve Ads Manager access from September 2026. What counts is where your business is legally registered, not where your customers are.

Yes. OpenAI opened ChatGPT Ads in India on 27 August 2026 with WPP and Omnicom as its first agency partners, and self-serve access through ChatGPT Ads Manager follows on September 2026. Campaigns bill in Indian rupees, with daily budgets starting at Rs 725, so an Indian-registered business no longer needs a US entity or US billing to advertise. India is one of ChatGPT's largest markets, at 330 million monthly users as of May 2026.

Dating and adult content, alcohol, tobacco and vaping, gambling, and political or issue advocacy are refused. Health and wellness, financial services and legal services are restricted rather than banned: they go through manual review and generally need market-specific licensing, disclosures and age controls. Retail, software, travel, education, local services and B2B are accepted under standard review.

Because ad review also reads your landing page. OpenAI's Ads API returns a specific reason code when it fails: robots_txt when your robots.txt disallows OAI-AdsBot, crawler_403 when a WAF or bot-mitigation rule refuses it, crawler_404 or crawler_500 for a broken page, unsupported_content_type when the URL is a PDF rather than an HTML page, and missing_favicon when the site has no favicon for ChatGPT to render beside the ad. This tool tests for each of those directly.

OAI-AdsBot is the crawler OpenAI uses to check ad landing pages against its advertising policies. Yes, you need to allow it: if it cannot fetch your page, the ad does not run. It is separate from GPTBot, and allowing it does not opt your content into model training. OAI-AdsBot only visits pages submitted as ad landing pages, and OpenAI states the data it collects is not used to train foundation models. Allow it by user-agent in robots.txt and by the IP ranges published at openai.com/adsbot.json in your WAF or CDN.

No. Ads appear for free-tier and Go users only. Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu accounts are ad-free, and ads are excluded from accounts belonging to users who are known or predicted to be under 18. That shapes who you can actually reach, so factor it into any audience sizing.