ChatGPT Pro $100 tier

OpenAI just put a $100 price tag on a very specific problem: developers were hitting coding limits on the $20 ChatGPT Plus plan, but many did not want to jump all the way to the older $200 Pro plan. On April 9, OpenAI added a new $100 ChatGPT Pro option with about five times the Codex allowance of Plus. (openai.com, openai.com) Codex is OpenAI’s coding agent inside ChatGPT, which means it is the part that writes code, reviews code, and can work through longer software tasks instead of just answering one prompt at a time. OpenAI says the new $100 tier is “best for longer, high-effort Codex sessions,” which is a polite way of saying it is built for people who keep the tool busy for hours. (openai.com, openai.com) The new plan also shows how crowded the coding assistant market has become in 2026. CNBC reported that OpenAI is positioning the move against Anthropic’s Claude Code, which has become popular with developers who treat artificial intelligence less like a chatbot and more like a full-time pair programmer. (cnbc.com) OpenAI did not just add one new price. It turned ChatGPT’s ladder into three clear rungs for coding work: $20 Plus for steady use, $100 Pro for heavier weekly use, and $200 Pro for what its help page calls “heavy lifting” with about 20 times the Codex limits of Plus. (openai.com, chatgpt.com) For a limited period through May 31, OpenAI is making the middle plan look even fatter by giving $100 Pro subscribers up to 10 times the Codex usage of Plus. After that bonus ends, the normal comparison goes back to five times Plus, while the $200 tier stays the bigger option for parallel, always-on workloads. (openai.com, openai.com) That detail matters because coding agents do not fail like normal software subscriptions fail. If a music app hits a limit, you stop listening; if a coding agent hits a limit in the middle of a release, a team can lose hours while tests, edits, and bug hunts pile up. OpenAI’s own Codex pricing page now also says users who hit limits can buy extra credits instead of changing plans, which makes the service look more like cloud infrastructure than a flat consumer app. (openai.com) OpenAI is also separating “chat” value from “work” value. The $100 plan still includes the other Pro features, including the exclusive Pro model and unlimited access to the Instant and Thinking models, but the selling point is not smarter conversation; it is more coding capacity. (openai.com, openai.com) That is the real shift behind the headline. Artificial intelligence subscriptions started as one box for everyone, but OpenAI is now charging different prices based on how hard a user leans on a specific workflow, the same way cloud companies charge more when a customer uses more compute. (venturebeat.com, openai.com) If that model sticks, the buyer changes too. A $20 plan is easy to expense like software for one person, but a $100 seat aimed at production coding starts to look like a budget line for engineering teams deciding whether an artificial intelligence agent saves enough developer time to justify a three-figure monthly bill. (cnbc.com, venturebeat.com)