ChatGPT costs BDT 2,200/month in Bangladesh — here's the BDT 220 alternative Bangladeshi developers are using

ChatGPT costs BDT 2,200/month in Bangladesh — here's the BDT 220 alternative Bangladeshi developers are using Let's talk about the math that nobody in Silicon Valley wants to discuss. ChatGPT Plus costs $20/month. At current exchange rates, that's BDT 2,200+ per month for a Bangladeshi developer. The average software developer salary in Bangladesh is around BDT 40,000–60,000/month. That means ChatGPT costs 3-5% of your monthly salary just to access AI tools that developers in San Francisco treat as a rounding error on their expense report. For context: BDT 2,200 is roughly 5-6 plates of kacchi biryani at your favorite restaurant. Every. Single. Month. The structural injustice This isn't about being cheap. It's about a broken pricing model. OpenAI charges the same price in Dhaka as in New York. The price was set by a company in San Francisco, optimized for San Francisco salaries, and then applied globally with zero adjustment for purchasing power. A developer in Dhaka working on the sam