ChatGPT Pro adds $100 coding tier

OpenAI just inserted a new price point into ChatGPT: $100 a month instead of the old jump from $20 straight to $200. The new plan appeared on April 9 and is aimed at people who hit coding limits before they hit budget limits. (community.openai.com) The product at the center of this is Codex, OpenAI’s coding agent inside ChatGPT. It is built to handle software jobs like writing features, refactoring code, reviewing changes, and running parallel work across projects instead of just answering one prompt at a time. (openai.com) OpenAI says the new $100 plan gives 5 times more Codex usage than ChatGPT Plus, which is the $20 plan. Through May 31, 2026, the company is temporarily boosting that to 10 times Plus for Codex work. (community.openai.com) The $200 plan did not go away. OpenAI’s help pages say the $100 plan is the middle option, while the $200 plan remains the highest-usage tier with 20 times the Codex allowance of Plus. (help.openai.com) That tells you what OpenAI thinks people are paying for now. The company is no longer packaging ChatGPT only as a smarter chatbot; it is slicing the product by how much machine labor a user can consume in a month, especially for coding. (help.openai.com) OpenAI also changed how Codex is billed on April 2, 2026. Its help center says newer Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users now use a token-based rate card for Codex instead of the older per-message system, which is closer to how cloud computing and application programming interface usage are sold. (help.openai.com) The company has been widening access at the same time. OpenAI’s developer pricing page says Codex is included across Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Education, and Enterprise plans, while business teams can also use pay-as-you-go pricing instead of a fixed seat cost. (developers.openai.com) (openai.com) That combination splits the market into two groups. Individuals get monthly subscriptions with bigger usage buckets, and companies get metered pricing that can scale as more engineers start handing routine work to agents. (developers.openai.com) (openai.com) OpenAI is also making this move in a live pricing fight. TechCrunch and VentureBeat both report that the $100 tier lines up directly against Anthropic’s $100 developer offering, which means the competition is shifting from model quality alone to how many serious coding sessions each dollar buys. (techcrunch.com) (venturebeat.com) The small detail that gives away the target customer is parallel work. OpenAI describes the higher tiers as useful for “longer, high-effort” sessions and for running demanding workflows continuously across projects, which is language aimed at freelancers, startup engineers, and power users who want several coding agents working at once. (community.openai.com) (help.openai.com) So the news is not just that ChatGPT got a cheaper Pro option. It is that OpenAI is turning coding agents into a paid work layer with clear consumption tiers: $20 for occasional use, $100 for frequent individual use, and $200 or metered business pricing for people who want the software equivalent of extra hands on the keyboard. (help.openai.com) (openai.com)