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Bio programmers who hit them ChatGPT Usage limits so quickly on the $20/month OpenAI Plus plan that you no longer have to choose between waiting for a reset or spending on a $200/month upgrade. The company said Thursday it would do so Introducing a new Pro planpriced at $100 per month, comes with higher limits on the increasingly popular programming app Codex.
It has artificial intelligence coding tools It exploded in popularity In the past few months, with Anthropy Claude Code generation Viral headlines At the end of 2025, OpenAI’s Codex has seen a surge in usage so far this year. OpenAI said Codex usage rose more than 70% month-over-month.
The problem is that planning an AI and writing code for an app or tool uses a lot of tokens — the basic unit of AI generation — rather than just asking it to chat.
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The purpose of the new, cheaper Pro plan is to create common ground for those who want more time, OpenAI said in its announcement Code and create Without paying 10 times the cost of the Plus plan.
The new tier includes five times higher Codex usage limits than the Plus plan and access to all other features of the current $200 per month Pro plan, including the ChatGPT Pro model. It also covers unlimited access to Instant and Thinking forms.
The $200 per month Pro plan includes usage limits that are 20 times higher than the Plus plan.
Anthropic offers Similar pricing For its subscriptions to Claude AI. Claude Max 5x offers five times the capacity of the $20 per month plan for $100 per month, and Claude Max 20x offers 20x the capacity for $200 per month.
(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET’s parent company, sued OpenAI last year alleging that it infringed Ziff Davis’s copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)