# How to Change Model Within a Project (folder) **URL:** \ **Category:** ChatGPT\ **Tags:** chatgpt, project\ **Created:** [December 14, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089 "2024-12-14T00:15:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grabani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/grabani/32/448370_2.png) [@grabani](https://community.openai.com/u/grabani)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/1 "2024-12-14T00:15:38Z")
Hi There, Can you change the model of your chats(s) when you are with a Project (folder)? The model selector is no longer in the top LEFT. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![EricGT](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/ericgt/32/20571_2.png) [@EricGT](https://community.openai.com/u/EricGT)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 12:44am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/2 "2024-12-14T00:44:06Z")
Welcome to the forum! This is an excellent first question for those new to projects. The current OpenAI ChatGPT FAQ for projects [Using Projects in ChatGPT](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10169521-using-projects-in-chatgpt) notes > Please note that chats in Projects use GPT-4o, and the model cannot be changed. ---
**Author:** ![grabani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/grabani/32/448370_2.png) [@grabani](https://community.openai.com/u/grabani)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/3 "2024-12-14T14:10:18Z")
That’s a shame. I appreciate you taking the time to respond. ---
**Author:** ![wilfing](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/wilfing/32/308407_2.png) [@wilfing](https://community.openai.com/u/wilfing)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/4 "2024-12-15T18:52:55Z")
That is pretty strange and unintuitive ---
**Author:** ![pegasus1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/pegasus1/32/522731_2.png) [@pegasus1](https://community.openai.com/u/pegasus1)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/5 "2024-12-22T12:15:40Z")
Yes this makes the whole Projects feature unusable which is a shame. ---
**Author:** ![VeitB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/veitb/32/712987_2.png) [@VeitB](https://community.openai.com/u/VeitB)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/6 "2024-12-22T12:50:27Z")
The workaround I’ve seen mentioned in the community is to start a new conversation with a different model and later move it into the projects folder. I expect this restriction will be lifted at some point in the future. Maybe it’s an option to manually select the model for the next reply as another workaround, like one can do in regular ChatGPT conversations? My apologies if the answer appears obvious. I haven’t worked with the new projects feature, yet. ---
**Author:** ![PleasantDialogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/258eb7/32.png) [@PleasantDialogue](https://community.openai.com/u/PleasantDialogue)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 7:00am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/7 "2025-01-07T07:00:12Z")
Yeah I just thought to myself “I’ll finally organise all these chats into a useful workspace”. Then I woke this morning to go and continue my coding work, only to find I could not change model. I regularly work with with the basic model, but then, when it fails, switch to the o1 model to solve the problem, and then switch back. Since I can’t now switch back and forth within a chat, this makes the workspace feature unusable with my workflow. Or is the idea that the user has different chats with different models in the one workspace, and each chat has access to the other chats in the workspace, so that the models are always in the context of that one workspace? ---
**Author:** ![fwt-rich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/fwt-rich/32/448466_2.png) [@fwt-rich](https://community.openai.com/u/fwt-rich)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/8 "2025-03-16T17:05:12Z")
It’s using 4.5 now and I did not realize that until I got warning messages about running out of requests, when I got more in 7 days. Really makes no sense to me - a “project” should just be a group of chats related to a topic, regardless of what model was used in each chat. ---
**Author:** ![koen.handekyn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/koen.handekyn/32/566624_2.png) [@koen.handekyn](https://community.openai.com/u/koen.handekyn)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 6:41am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/9 "2025-03-19T06:41:46Z")
Just subscribing that it’s annoying that projects fix the model ---
**Author:** ![koen.handekyn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/koen.handekyn/32/566624_2.png) [@koen.handekyn](https://community.openai.com/u/koen.handekyn)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 6:46am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/10 "2025-03-19T06:46:58Z")
ok, seems i was using a wrong client that didn’t expose it, it seems available now with the right client app. actually, the latest greatest mac desktop app still doesn’t support it seemingly ---
**Author:** ![grabani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/grabani/32/448370_2.png) [@grabani](https://community.openai.com/u/grabani)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/11 "2025-03-24T15:09:41Z")
IT would seem you can now change the model at the project level. Which is great! ![The image shows a dropdown menu on a digital platform where different GPT-4 model versions, such as GPT-4o and GPT-4.5, are listed for various applications like advanced reasoning and coding. (Captioned by AI)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/d/d/c/ddc52b1fb50c319d69d90a645fc997ee4d7e5efa.png) ---
**Author:** ![edevantie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/edevantie/32/545408_2.png) [@edevantie](https://community.openai.com/u/edevantie)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 11:51am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/12 "2025-03-29T11:51:43Z")
For me, when I change the model to, for example, o3-mini in a project chat, it moves out of the project and into the regular flow 😮‍💨 ---
**Author:** ![yashgoyal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/yashgoyal/32/513166_2.png) [@yashgoyal](https://community.openai.com/u/yashgoyal)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/13 "2025-04-17T02:49:58Z")
I’m having the same issue in the latest version of the mac desktop client. It works fine on the browser but it’s very annoying to not be able to select the model I want for the new chat from the project page. ---
**Author:** ![User28473893](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9fc348/32.png) [@User28473893](https://community.openai.com/u/User28473893)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/14 "2025-04-29T22:23:10Z")
Bumping this thread. I’ve also sent a support ticket but haven’t heard back. The issue seems to only affect iOS Projects, as desktop switching still works. But having to jump back and forth is super annoying and unintuitive. Adding a basic “change model” option inside the app would solve this instantly and shouldn’t be that hard. Any ETA on a fix? ---
**Author:** ![dsalunga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/dsalunga/32/231253_2.png) [@dsalunga](https://community.openai.com/u/dsalunga)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/15 "2025-05-18T11:33:44Z")
Having the option to organise chats into folders seems more useful than this project feature where you can’t change the model. ---
**Author:** ![ryan.hcca](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/ryan.hcca/32/450423_2.png) [@ryan.hcca](https://community.openai.com/u/ryan.hcca)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/16 "2025-06-05T23:01:20Z")
bumping the bump for support ---
**Author:** ![meiamme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@meiamme](https://community.openai.com/u/meiamme)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 5:22am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/17 "2025-06-24T05:22:13Z")
Web version works for me now. Was previously having the same issues mentioned with the Mac OS app. I’m using Safari but I don’t think that would make a difference. ---
**Author:** ![peterzanetti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/peterzanetti/32/649067_2.png) [@peterzanetti](https://community.openai.com/u/peterzanetti)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/18 "2025-06-30T17:38:12Z")
Are you sure about that? I can see the dropdown exists and will let me change it without popping it out of the project, but when I ask ChatGPT what model its using, it says its still using 4o. ---
**Author:** ![meiamme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@meiamme](https://community.openai.com/u/meiamme)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/19 "2025-07-01T05:32:09Z")
Strange. I did the same thing and it was able to tell me when it changed models as well as the project name. ![Screenshot 2025-06-30 at 10.31.58 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/b/e/2/be2c40a4088a5c35fd7465432e7b1d5b1ddd1c88.png) ---
**Author:** ![josecfreittas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/josecfreittas/32/662945_2.png) [@josecfreittas](https://community.openai.com/u/josecfreittas)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089/20 "2025-08-05T18:43:31Z")
Bump. This is still a problem for the MacOS app. I need to switch to the browser to be able to use a better model when I need to use a project’s context. Deepsearch an other tools are still unavailable inside projects on the app. [Next page](https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-change-model-within-a-project-folder/1055089.md?page=2)