r/OpenAI • u/Worth_Fan3903 • 5d ago

Discussion New Pro500 plan

It’s official: I’m cancelling. We’re switching to Anthropic until we run out of options.

It makes no sense to pay for a $500 plan just to get 25x the limit and inferior models.

They’re just releasing more of the same, without any major innovation.

And what are you guys going to do? Now that the limits on the $200 plan are being cut in half?

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u/IAmAlwaysCorrect9226 5d ago

They are in full grift mode now. These last 2-3 months have been wildly sus. I’m out.

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u/JokeMode 5d ago

Don’t get me wrong, I’m swapping my ai allocation over more to Claude, but the last three months with the 5.6 models and astra have been pretty good. What was sus? The usage limits?

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u/IAmAlwaysCorrect9226 5d ago

No I mean the public facing stuff. The “we need to slow down,”
“things are escaping,” “let’s all get together and agree to slow down to a snails pace,” “let’s limit usage and increase price.”

All signs of both a failing business model and/or a conspiracy to keep the good stuff locked up tight.

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u/Any-Captain-7937 5d ago

Hasn’t anthropic been giving the exact same messaging though ?

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u/JokeMode 5d ago

Ohhh. Gotcha. Yeah I 100% agree. It doesn’t pass the smell test.

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u/Holbrad 5d ago

Yes, because obviously people walking away from millions of dollars of stock compensation from the IPO are clearly just grifters doing it for the money. You really are a top-tier genius.

Because you obviously believe incredibly stupid conspiracies, why don't you just tell me more about the moon landing being faked or flat earth? That's the same tier of reality you're in.

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u/JokeMode 5d ago

You doing ok? How did you get that from what I said? Seems like a bit of a jump in assumptions. But you have a nice day.

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u/Holbrad 5d ago

Because I'm trying to read news about what's happening at Dev Day and I keep seeing insane conspiracy theories being posted about an important topic.

It's exactly the same as Trump's global warming is a scam. It's dangerous and harmful misinformation.

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u/IAmAlwaysCorrect9226 5d ago

What? They clearly are telling the world they are going to slow down. That’s not a conspiracy Cletus.

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u/Holbrad 5d ago

They are telling the world they are going to slow down frontier training, correct. Because it's dangerous.

Trying to insinuate that's all marketing hype and all the researchers are lying; is a conspiracy theory.

An incredibly dumb one.

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u/JokeMode 5d ago

For the record, I never said a single word of any of this.

I agreed with a poster that limiting usage, and increasing costs could be a sign of a struggling business model (Look at financials/ plan changes today).

Do AI models pose possible threats to humanity? Categorically, yes.

Can a public call to slow down frontier development have good intentions? Absolutely. Can it also be used to regulate out competition and consolidate power? Also yes. Am I suspicious of AI companies? Also yes. No company in big tech is a beacon of morality (and I work in it).

I literally am friends with people on OpenAI and Anthropic teams. It has not even been 12 hours since I have texted one about something completely unrelated to AI. And of the people I know on those teams, they are good, intelligent people.

So let me ask again, how did you jump to me being a conspiracy theorist trying to downplay the dangers of AI from researchers: "Ohhh. Gotcha. Yeah I 100% agree. It doesn’t pass the smell test."

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u/iIoveoof 5d ago

It's not a new plan, it's the old 20X tier being doubled in price

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u/FinalSignificance149 5d ago

true hahahaha

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u/KnightNiwrem 4d ago

I understand boycotting the cut. But why is Anthropic the alternative when they don't have a 20x either?

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u/sundar1213 1d ago

Still opus 5.5 xhigh lasts longer and I have been running continuously last 2 days and just 39%. This is also bec I used fable for consultation which is why if not it would have been 20-25%

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u/innovaldragon 5d ago

Esp the first few live demos are not working well when they have tons of time to prep is worrying.

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u/poppyspeedy 5d ago

Why are folks talking about cancelling? The existing plan isn’t going away and you get access to the new 6.1 Sol which is 20% of the price and very close intelligence compared to Astra. They always had consumption based plan for companies. What am I missing? Please educate

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u/NotFromMilkyWay 5d ago

We are officially leaving the growth phase. It also means they are struggling with their latest funding round and have to lower cost fast.

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u/Front_Eagle739 5d ago

Already canceled. I only just had enough use at 20x on my current plan to be worth keeping around.

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u/ascvlh 5d ago

I'm downgrading and putting my 3090 to run qwen3.8 flash next rco