OpenAI on Thursday announced what power users have been asking for: a $100/month plan. The previous plans were free (now includes ads), the $8/month Go plan (also includes ads), the $20/month Plus plan (no ads), and the Pro plan up to $200 (also ad-free).
OpenAI’s pricing plans page currently doesn’t list any $200 per month plans. However, that top layer is still available, OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch.
According to the model maker, Plus (which remains $20 per month) and the new $100 Pro tier are tailored to support daily use of ChatGPT’s coding tool Codex. The $100 Pro plan offers 5x more Codex than the Plus plan.
OpenAI doesn’t see this new price point in any way as a competition to Anthropic, which has long offered Claude a $100 per month option.
“The new $100 Pro Tier is designed to give developers more practical coding power for their money, especially in high-intensity work sessions where limits are most important. Compared to Claude Code, Codex offers more coding power per dollar across paid tiers, and that difference is most evident during active coding usage,” an OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch.
One thing you should know: OpenAI is offering even higher limits for Codex on its $100 plan until May 31st. So if you’re someone who tries out a new level, gets relatively hooked on coding, and doesn’t see any fee warnings, be aware that that situation probably won’t last.
None of the plans offer unlimited usage. However, the $200 plan offers 20x the limits of Plus. Model Maker promises in its FAQ that this is enough to support “the most demanding workflows continuously, even across parallel projects.” Both Pro plans offer the same core features. The company says the main difference is rate limiting.
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The spokesperson also said that more than 3 million people around the world use Codex every week, with “a 5x increase in the past three months, and usage is up more than 70% month over month.”
