OpenAI announced on Thursday something that power users have been asking for forever: a $100/month plan. Until nowplans were priced at: free (which now includes ads)an $8/month Go plan (that also includes ads)a $20/month Plus plan (ad free)and then all the way up to a $200 Pro plan (also ad free).
OpenAI’s pricing plan page currently does not list a $200/month plan at all. Howeverthat highest tier is still availableOpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch.
The model maker says Plus (which remains at $20/month) and the new $100 Pro tier are geared to support daily usage of ChatGPT’s coding tool Codex. The $100 Pro plan will offer 5x more Codex than the Plus plan.
OpenAI makes no bones that this new pricing tier is to challenge Anthropicwhich has long had a $100/month option for Claude.
“The new $100 Pro Tier is designed to give developers more practical coding capacity for the moneyespecially during high-intensity work sessions where limits matter most. Compared with Claude CodeCodex delivers more coding capacity per dollar across paid tierswith the difference showing up most clearly during active coding use,” an OpenAI spokesperson tells TechCrunch.
One thing to know: OpenAI is offering even higher limits of Codex on the $100 plan through May 31. So anyone who tries the new tiergoes relatively mad with coding and never gets a rate warning: Be advised that such a situation likely won’t last.
None of the plans offer unlimited usage. The $200 planhoweveroffers 20× higher limits than Plus. The model maker promises on its FAQ that this is enough to support “your most demanding workflows continuouslyeven across parallel projects.” Both Pro plans offer the same core features. The main difference is the rate limitsthe company says.
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The spokesperson also says that more than 3 million people globally are using Codex every week“up 5x in the past three monthswith usage growing more than 70% month over month.”
