OpenAI on Thursday announced a $100 per month plan that power users have been asking for forever. So far, the plans are Free (currently with ads), $8 per month Go plan (with ads), $20 per month Plus plan (no ads), and up to $200 per month Pro plan (no ads).
OpenAI’s pricing plans page doesn’t currently list a $200 per month plan at all. However, the highest tiers are still available, OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch.
The model maker says the Plus (which remains at $20 per month) and the new $100 Pro tier are geared toward supporting daily use of ChatGPT’s coding tool Codex. The $100 Pro plan gives you 5x more Codex than the Plus plan.
OpenAI does not claim that this new pricing tier is a challenge to Anthropic, which has long offered Claude a $100 per month option.
An OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch, “The new $100 Pro Tier is designed to give developers more viable coding capacity for their money, especially in high-intensity work sessions where limits are paramount. Compared to Claude Code, Codex offers more coding capacity per dollar across paid tiers, and the difference is most evident during active coding usage.”
One thing to know: OpenAI is offering much higher Codex limits on its $100 plan until May 31st. So anyone trying a new tier is relatively crazy about coding and doesn’t get any fee warnings. This situation is unlikely to last.
Neither plan offers unlimited usage. However, the $200 plan offers limits 20 times higher than Plus. The model maker promises in its FAQ that this is enough to support “the most demanding workflows consistently across parallel projects.” Both Pro plans offer the same core features. The biggest difference, the company says, is rate caps.
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The spokesperson also said that more than 3 million people worldwide use Codex every week. This has “increased fivefold over the last three months, with usage increasing by more than 70% month over month.”
