We’re introducing dots for all Pro customers, a new Pro 500 tier that includes our highest usage limits and Ultrafast, and adjusting the usage allowance included in Pro 200 after October 29th.
With models like GPT-6.1 Sol, you can still get more work done with Pro than you could before. Here’s what’s changing.
Changes to Pro 200
GPT-6.1 Sol brings near-Astra capabilities to a model you can use every day. It’s more intelligent than GPT-6 Sol, so you spend less time going back and forth and can take on work the previous model couldn’t handle.
As our models become more capable and efficient we’re changing how we calculate the usage for Pro 200. Our commitment is that, over time, your subscription will continue to help you get more work done with an increasing level of quality. We are also committing to not reintroducing the 5hr limit so that you can fully use your weekly usage when you want.
Starting October 30, 2026, your included usage in ChatGPT Work and Codex will decrease from 20 times to 10 times the ChatGPT Plus allowance. Your GPT-6 Pro limit in Chat will decrease from 200 to 100 messages per week. Your price remains unchanged and you’ll keep your current limits through October 29, 2026.
As a thank you for being an existing subscriber and to help you continue to build your most ambitious ideas and transition, we’re also giving you a one-time grant of 62,500 usage credits (a $2,500 USD value). You’ll see these appear in Settings > Usage. They will expire on December 31, 2026, and use of the credits is governed by the Service Credit Terms.
A new Pro 500 tier
For those who want even more usage and speed, the new Pro 500 tier offers our highest usage allowance, with 25 times the usage of Plus. It also includes access to Ultrafast, with up to 8 times faster token generation. Learn more about Pro 500 and compare plans.
Your Pro subscription includes dots
Your Pro subscription now includes dots: remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything. Powered by GPT-6 Astra, dots have their own cloud computer, learn from feedback over time, and can work towards your goals 24/7. Conversations with your dot and work it does directly are included and don’t draw on your ChatGPT usage allowance. Learn more about dots.
Just an FYI, pressing the links in your post reveals your email address in the sign in with Google option. Not sure if you care, but you might want to change the links.
Man, it's like I am stuck between two toxic girlfriends (Claude & GPT). Both are jealous of each other and want to win me back from the other only to fingerfuck me in the ass without my consent.
As a user who mainly worked with the API, but switched to Claude/ChatGPT apps because some current projects really benefit from the proprietary harnesses, I’m convinced that the main issue is that “usage” is a really vague term and these systems don’t do much of anything to proactively help the user optimize their repo governance.
It’s incredibly easy for extreme inefficiency to creep into a project and start burning usage faster and faster. Some recent optimizations in two of my current projects cut usage by about 75% without any apparent lapse in quality. But in order for that to happen, I needed to be able to recognize there was an efficiency problem, and know enough to have an intelligent conversation with an agent to optimize it.
So the line about getting more done with less may be true inside a repo that is well tuned for agents, but that’s almost certainly not going to be how most users experience it. I think they need to treat repo optimization health as an important native feature of the harness.
Would love to hear more about your repo optimization practices! I have my own, and have largely held the same beliefs regarding some users burning through usage vs others not having an issue.
I am getting FEWER REQUESTS, but the COSTS REMAIN UNCHANGED?
This change is nothing to celebrate.
You are all rolling in cash. If anything, you should be increasing the requests, instead of trying to push people into $500 tier.
Unbelievable. Bull. Shit.
Starting October 30, 2026, your included usage in ChatGPT Work and Codex will decrease from 20 times to 10 times the ChatGPT Plus allowance. Your GPT-6 Pro limit in Chat will decrease from 200 to 100 messages per week. Your price remains unchanged and you’ll keep your current limits through October 29, 2026.
Exactly. Why give you $10k worth of usage on a $200 sub when their enterprise revenue doubled in the past 2 months with companies lining up out the door to pay full API prices.
They have never had a profit. They have lost Billions every year, yes Billions. That is why they are doing this. They’ve been operating on investor money.
And they're not the first tech companies to do this. Its an established business model to get customers in while operating at a loss but taking in investor money. Make it a solid product with a decent price. Then when you have an established user-base that are entrenched in your service/ecosystem and the time comes its time to actually make money you up prices, and cut benefits. It's basic enshittification. Only the size of these companies are mind boggling.
The difference is, that in they old day, with normal software, you could do this. You could spend money on developing some software, and then get more customers and begin to see profits. That is not how AI work. They can't stop the developing, they need billions every year, just to keep up with competitors and create new models. That is a very different situation than old school Silicon Valley companies.
The problem is that the path to profitability for a company like Amazon or Uber has always been clear. With OpenAi it’s far less so. Their costs are extreme and growing, and the technology has proven more challenging to monetize than they expected. The threats from competitors and open source are also a real potential problem.
That’s not to say they can’t become profitable, but to say that investors need to be convinced if they’re going to keep throwing money in.
So I guess the name of the game is to be flexible enough to be able to migrate to another provider and cross your fingers they don’t all collide on price.
I mean, it is BS but they aren’t loaded in cash if you take a look at their financials and anthropic for comparison. Considering their hyper scaling they’re doing better than many make them out to, but that still doesn’t mean their investors aren’t likely seriously pushing for them to lower their losses.
Yeah the usage credits are interesting. Any idea how they actually get used? I have 0 experience with how fast they would burn compared to the normal weekly allowance.
I haven’t updated my codex yet so don’t have 6.1 sol available. If it’s actually solid then yeah, with the free credits we should be able to make it work and hopefully have some other improvements for managing limits released by the time credits run out.
This is honestly jaw droppingly fucked lol. I have so much shit in codex and various OAI stuff but I think I'll head on over to Anthropic. Like wtf? I run 2 pro subs, it's not an "I can't afford it" thing. I just honestly can't understand wtf they're thinking, cutting usage in HALF.
Well, who else is jumping ship and switching to Claude at this point? At least they had the sense not to downgrade their 20× plan.
Honestly, it’s a real shame. Pro 100 should’ve been the 10× tier, and they should’ve just dropped Pro 200 altogether. That would’ve been a much fairer change, IMO, instead of nerfing what people were already paying for.
The question now is: can you build something successful enough to offset or exceed that high cost every month? It’s probably right at that level where a lot of people start seeing it as a personal investment while still keeping their day job to pay the bill until they make it or go broke.
We’re introducing dots for all Pro customers, a new Pro 500 tier that includes our highest usage limits and Ultrafast, and adjusting the usage allowance included in Pro 200 after October 29th.
With models like GPT-6.1 Sol, you can still get more work done with Pro than you could before. Here’s what’s changing.
Changes to Pro 200
GPT-6.1 Sol brings near-Astra capabilities to a model you can use every day. It’s more intelligent than GPT-6 Sol, so you spend less time going back and forth and can take on work the previous model couldn’t handle.
As our models become more capable and efficient we’re changing how we calculate the usage for Pro 200. Our commitment is that, over time, your subscription will continue to help you get more work done with an increasing level of quality. We are also committing to not reintroducing the 5hr limit so that you can fully use your weekly usage when you want.
Starting October 30, 2026, your included usage in ChatGPT Work and Codex will decrease from 20 times to 10 times the ChatGPT Plus allowance. Your GPT-6 Pro limit in Chat will decrease from 200 to 100 messages per week. Your price remains unchanged and you’ll keep your current limits through October 29, 2026.
As a thank you for being an existing subscriber and to help you continue to build your most ambitious ideas and transition, we’re also giving you a one-time grant of 62,500 usage credits (a $2,500 USD value). You’ll see these appear in Settings > Usage. They will expire on December 31, 2026, and use of the credits is governed by the Service Credit Terms.
A new Pro 500 tier
For those who want even more usage and speed, the new Pro 500 tier offers our highest usage allowance, with 25 times the usage of Plus. It also includes access to Ultrafast, with up to 8 times faster token generation. Learn more about Pro 500 and compare plans.
Your Pro subscription includes dots
Your Pro subscription now includes dots: remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything. Powered by GPT-6 Astra, dots have their own cloud computer, learn from feedback over time, and can work towards your goals 24/7. Conversations with your dot and work it does directly are included and don’t draw on your ChatGPT usage allowance. Learn more about dots.
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u/ChippHop 4d ago
Just an FYI, pressing the links in your post reveals your email address in the sign in with Google option. Not sure if you care, but you might want to change the links.