OpenAI on Thursday announced something power users have been asking for forever: a $100 per month plan. Until now, plans were priced at: free (which now includes ads)an $8/month Go plan (which also includes ads), a $20/month Plus plan (ad-free), and then up to a $200 Pro plan (also ad-free).
OpenAI pricing plan page Currently does not include any $200/month plan. However, that highest level is still available, OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch.
The model maker says the 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 makes no secret that this new pricing tier will challenge Anthropic, which has long had a $100 a month option for Claude.
“The new $100 Pro tier is designed to give developers more hands-on coding power for their money, especially during high-intensity work sessions where limits are more important. Compared to Claude Code, Codex offers more coding power per dollar at the paid tiers, and the difference shows up more clearly during active coding usage,” an OpenAI spokesperson tells TechCrunch.
One thing to know: OpenAI is offering even higher Codex limits on the $100 plan until May 31. So anyone who tries the new level, goes relatively crazy with coding and never gets a rate warning: keep in mind that such a situation probably won’t last.
Neither plan offers unlimited usage. The $200 plan, however, offers limits 20 times higher 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 core features. The main difference is the rate caps, the company says.
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The spokesperson also says that more than 3 million people around the world use Codex each week, “a five-fold increase in the last three months, and usage is growing more than 70% month over month.”
