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ChatGPT Pro 500

61 pointsby 32m agohelp.openai.com
44 comments
29m 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

26m agoHN ↗

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

19m 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!

13m agoHN ↗

lol yeah, I opened the Uber app the other day to $100 fares, remembered a time when I could get anywhere in SF at any time for like $5.

11m agoHN ↗

$5 flat group rides, $8 flat single rides anywhere in the city. The glory days.

26m agoHN ↗

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

23m 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.

23m 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?

19m 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

21m agoHN ↗

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

17m agoHN ↗

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

10m agoHN ↗

How would that work? It's not simple to set a price, when you have a fixed asset. Seems more complicated to set price on a product (ChatGPT), where the product is just a shell for something else entirely (the model), that changes by the month.

8m agoHN ↗

but to do accurate billing, they would have to tell us when our usage triggers a guard rail and causes our query to be rerouted or denied.

And if they do that accurately, there's no stopping someone from mapping the guard rails.

Clearly that outcome is more uncomfortable than what we have now, which is enough people seem to be okay with vague billing.

16m agoHN ↗

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

Just trust me bro accounting.

15m agoHN ↗

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

9m agoHN ↗

It filter to people/organizations who have a hand-wavey relationship with $500.

7m agoHN ↗

Yes, you are. All of this was obvious from the start. The prices will go up way more soon (tm)

21m agoHN ↗

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

21m 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.

20m agoHN ↗

Lowering usage limits, increasing price.

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

19m agoHN ↗

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

19m agoHN ↗

What a strange idea to name your product after it's price.

18m 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 (!!)

11m agoHN ↗

Where do you see that? I can't even see the $500 plan on their pricing page.

7m agoHN ↗

The pricing is on the linked page but does not appear to be selectable in ChatGPT UI yet.

18m 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.

14m agoHN ↗

The $20/month subscription is an excellent deal. I wonder what these whales are doing with all those tokens?

I mean, other than Yegge. He seems like a pretty extreme outlier?

17m agoHN ↗

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

9m agoHN ↗

Been doing it slowly for months week over week allowances have been getting cut by 5-10% consistently

16m 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.

16m 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.

14m agoHN ↗

Great naming scheme that doesn’t even survive exchange rates, or future price changes.

11m agoHN ↗

At this rate I expect end-to-end work getting done, no babysitting whatsoever. The agents should literally be calling me and talking about their problem if something needs my input.

9m agoHN ↗

We’re getting pretty close to that being the normal process at this point

I know people who have been at this as stage since around 4o with their own custom systems

10m agoHN ↗

Very cool how I'm supposed to feel good about paying $200/mo (a VERY expensive subscription!) for months, just to be told that in the near (but not immediate) future this subscription will lose half of its value and then I'll have to pay 2.5x as much to get 1.25x the value I used to get.

Fuck that shit!

10m agoHN ↗

People complained about burning their weekly usage in a day on Pro 200, so OpenAI's response to that is an even more expensive plan?

7m agoHN ↗

No this is just the 500$ plan. They offer "ultrafast" now which is ~300tps which is 8x the speed for 6x the price.

8m agoHN ↗

Venture capital doesn't want to pay for our tokens anymore, it seems

8m agoHN ↗

Is AI development hitting its limits?

The performance changes between models are almost static. Recently, GPT has shifted almost entirely toward token efficiency.

Astra is good at making 3D assets, but realistically its coding was not as good as GPT 5.6 Sol.

Have we reached a point where getting better at one thing means starting to get worse at another?

This announcement is the worst one yet.

Nerfing existing usage A more expensive top-tier plan Showing off how slow Dots is right in the demo video And GPT Space—are they telling us to use it instead of Notion or what...

Overall, throughout the entire announcement, everything OpenAI wants me to look forward to just leaves me, as a developer, disappointed.