ChatGPT finally offers $100/month Pro plan

OpenAI announced connected Thursday thing that powerfulness users person been asking for forever: a $100/month plan. Until now, plans were priced at: escaped (which present includes ads), an $8/month Go program (that besides includes ads), $20/month Plus program (ad free), and past each the mode up to a $200 Pro program (also advertisement free).

OpenAI’s pricing program page presently does not database a $200/month program astatine all. However, that highest tier is inactive available, OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch.

The exemplary shaper says Plus (which remains astatine $20/month) and the new, $100 Pro tiers are geared to enactment regular usage of ChatGPT’s coding instrumentality Codex. The $100 Pro program volition connection 5x much Codex than the Plus plan.

OpenAI makes nary bones that this caller pricing tier is to situation Anthropic, which has agelong had a $100/month enactment for Claude.

“The caller $100 Pro Tier is designed to springiness developers much applicable coding capableness for the money, particularly during high-intensity enactment sessions wherever limits substance most. Compared with Claude Code, Codex delivers much coding capableness per dollar crossed paid tiers, with the quality showing up astir intelligibly during progressive coding use,” an OpenAI spokesperson tells TechCrunch.

One happening to know: OpenAI is offering adjacent higher limits of Codex connected the $100 program done May 31. So anyone who tries the caller tier, goes comparatively huffy with coding and ne'er gets a complaint warning, beryllium advised that specified a concern apt won’t last.

None of the plans connection unlimited usage. The $200 plan, however, offers 20× higher limits than Plus. The exemplary shaper promises connected its FAQ that this is capable to enactment “your astir demanding workflows continuously, adjacent crossed parallel projects.” Both Pro plans connection the aforesaid halfway features. The main quality is the complaint limits, the institution says.

The spokesperson besides says that much than 3 cardinal radical globally are utilizing Codex each week, “up 5x successful the past 3 months, with usage increasing much than 70% period implicit month.”