OpenAI drops new $100 Pro
OpenAI introduced a new $100/month ChatGPT Pro tier aimed at heavier coding and professional users, narrowing the gap between consumer and higher‑end plans and signalling price competition for developer workflows. The package reportedly increases Codex usage and continues multi‑model access, a move positioned to compete with Anthropic for power users. (lifehacker.com) (moneycontrol.com)
OpenAI just inserted a new price step into ChatGPT: $100 a month instead of forcing heavy users to jump straight from $20 Plus to $200 Pro. The company says the new plan is built for people who run longer coding sessions in Codex, its coding agent inside ChatGPT. (community.openai.com) Codex is the part of ChatGPT that helps write, edit, and work through software projects, so usage limits matter the way data caps matter on a phone plan. OpenAI says the new $100 tier gets 5 times more Codex usage than Plus. (help.openai.com) (community.openai.com) OpenAI did not kill the old $200 plan. Its help page says the $200 version stays on sale as the highest-usage option, with 20 times the Codex usage of Plus, while the new $100 version sits in the middle. (help.openai.com) The company also kept the rest of the Pro bundle on the $100 plan. OpenAI says subscribers still get all Pro features, including the exclusive Pro model and unlimited access to its Instant and Thinking models. (community.openai.com) (help.openai.com) There is also a launch sweetener with an end date. OpenAI says that through May 31, 2026, the $100 plan gets up to 10 times the Codex usage of Plus instead of the normal 5 times. (community.openai.com) (9to5mac.com) This is really a fight over coding subscriptions, not casual chatbot use. CNBC reported that OpenAI launched the tier as Anthropic’s Claude Code gained traction, and Lifehacker said the new $100 price directly targets Anthropic’s own $100 plan. (cnbc.com) (lifehacker.com) The pricing ladder makes the strategy obvious. OpenAI now has Free, Go at $8, Plus at $20, the new Pro at $100, and the older Pro at $200 for individuals, which gives the company a cleaner set of upgrade steps for people whose coding use suddenly gets expensive. (venturebeat.com) (community.openai.com) OpenAI also changed how Codex billing works just a week earlier. Its help center says that on April 2, 2026, Codex pricing moved to token-based usage instead of per-message pricing, which means the company is tuning both the meter and the monthly plans at the same time. (help.openai.com) That combination tells you who this plan is for: people who do enough coding in ChatGPT to hit limits, but not enough to justify $200 every month. OpenAI is trying to stop those users from drifting to Claude Code by giving them a middle shelf instead of a cliff. (techcrunch.com) (help.openai.com)
