OpenAI on Thursday announced something power users have been asking for: a $100/month plan. Until now, the plan prices were: free (which now includes ads), an $8/month Go plan (which also includes ads), a $20/month Plus plan (no ads), and then a $200 Pro plan (also no ads).
OpenAI’s pricing plan page currently does not list a $200/month plan at all. However, that higher level is still available, OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch.
The model maker says Plus (which remains at $20/month) and the new $100 Pro tier are designed to support daily use of ChatGPT’s Codex coding tool. The $100 Pro plan will offer 5x more Codex than the Plus plan.
OpenAI does nothing that this new pricing tier is going to challenge Anthropic, which has long had a $100/month option for Claude.
“The new $100 Pro Tier is designed to give developers more practical coding capacity for the money, especially during high-intensity work where limits matter most. Compared to Claude Code, Codex provides more coding capacity per dollar at paid tiers, with the difference becoming more apparent when actively using coding,” an OpenAI spokesperson tells TechCrunch.
One thing to know: OpenAI is offering even higher Codex limits in the $100 program until May 31st. So anyone who tries the new tier goes crazy about coding and never gets a price warning: Be aware that such a situation probably won’t last.
None of the plans offer unlimited usage. The $200 plan, however, offers 20x higher limits than Plus. The model maker promises in its FAQ that this is enough to support “your most demanding workflows continuously, even in parallel projects.” Both Pro plans offer the same basic features. The main difference is the interest rate caps, the company says.
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The spokesperson also says that more than 3 million people worldwide use Codex every week, “5 times in the last three months, with usage growing more than 70% month-on-month.”
