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ChatGPT Pro 500

42 pointsby 22m agohelp.openai.com
22 comments
20m agoHN ↗

New subscriptions that aren’t eligible for grandfathering include a lower usage allowance than previously offered with Pro 200 to reflect our increasingly efficient models.

actual lol

17m agoHN ↗

Oh don't worry, you get to keep your higher usage allowance for one month. hahahaha

10m agoHN ↗

New rider trips include a higher base fare than previously offered with Uber to reflect our increasingly efficient trip routing. - Travis K.

Enjoy the Lyft v Uber era while it lasts!

17m agoHN ↗

I guess they got tired of people saying Codex plans were a better value than Claude Code.

14m agoHN ↗

Yeah no. $200 was the top for me. Which doesn't super matter to me, I pretty much only use luna. I can't tell the difference between luna vs sol/astra other than those larger models do more ambitious things that I don't ask for.

14m agoHN ↗

Why would I pay $500 now when the $200 features were just rug-pulled? I mean, Pro 1000 is on the horizon at this point, no?

10m agoHN ↗

Yea, the $500 package is likely a rebranded $200 from a few months ago. Keep in mind all providers have been cutting token allowances for their subs for a few months now

12m agoHN ↗

Am I just out of touch with our times if I think hand-wavey usage limits on a 500$ subscription is crazy?

7m agoHN ↗

Im surprised some countries dont have consumer protection laws that would force them to be more explicit/accurate

7m agoHN ↗

Yeah it's wild that they don't outright state the specific usage limits.

Just trust me bro accounting.

6m agoHN ↗

Remember when people talked abouthow these models are similar to gambling. Well, might be preetty much loot box logix crossed with DLC

11m agoHN ↗

Given that I burn through 2 x $200 subscriptions, I really hope Sol 6.1 is indeed as good as Astra ( ̄ー ̄;

11m agoHN ↗

Decent(-ish), but doesn't provide good value for the money, sadly. They still refuse to tell you exactly how much usage you're paying for. My original suggestion a few months ago was to provide a $500/$1000 tier but make it _unlimited_, which this doesn't appear to be.

11m agoHN ↗

Lowering usage limits, increasing price.

This is just the beginning. Migrate to open models ASAP.

10m agoHN ↗

For a second I was worried I somehow missed 490 versions.

9m agoHN ↗

Horrid value.

Previous $200 tier: 20x pro value

New $200 tier: 10x

New $500 tier: 25x, plus ultrafast mode but it drains 6x the cost (!!)

9m agoHN ↗

This day may go down in history as one of the worst in OpenAI's history. It's so bad it's funny.

OpenAI announced they built clones of apps that already exist, codex for normal people, and 2.5x price increase for the product that is already getting decimated by competition.

What is happening at OpenAI?

I can't imagine OpenAI not backtracking this unless Anthropic does the price hike too.

8m agoHN ↗

It's funny how, just before that, they tactfully cut the limits on the $200 subscription.

7m agoHN ↗

If your Pro 200 subscription was active at the eligibility cutoff or during the seven days before it, you’re eligible to keep your previous included usage allowance through Oct 29, 2026 while you have an active Pro 200 subscription.

After that date, your subscription will move to the lower included usage allowance. Your subscription price stays at $200/month.

Imagine buying this shit for a year, upfront, and then having to deal with this. Nice.

7m agoHN ↗

I wonder how this will go with the new releases like MiMo-v2.6-Pro or future GLM, DeepSeek, and Kimi releases around the corner. Once planned with Fable or Astra, the build process isn't much different with the open weight models from my usage.