OpenAI adds $100 Pro

OpenAI just filled in a weird gap in ChatGPT pricing: until April 9, the jump was $20 for Plus to $200 for Pro, and now there is a new $100 plan in the middle. TechCrunch reported the new tier on April 9, and OpenAI’s own help pages say it is rolling out now. (techcrunch.com) (help.openai.com) The new plan is aimed at Codex, which is OpenAI’s coding agent inside ChatGPT that can help write, review, and work through software tasks. OpenAI says Codex is included across ChatGPT plans, but the amount you can use depends on which plan you pay for. (help.openai.com) At $100 a month, the new Pro tier gives 5 times the Codex usage of the $20 Plus plan. OpenAI’s help center also says there is a limited-time boost to 10 times Plus-level Codex usage during the rollout. (help.openai.com) The $200 Pro plan is not going away. OpenAI says that top tier is still for people running the heaviest workflows and keeps a 20 times higher limit than Plus, including work across parallel projects. (techcrunch.com) (help.openai.com) That means OpenAI is carving its consumer lineup into clearer steps: free, Go at $8, Plus at $20, Pro at $100, and Pro at $200. TechCrunch noted the $200 option was not shown on the pricing page when the story published, but OpenAI told the outlet it was still available. (techcrunch.com) The reason this is happening now is that Codex pricing itself changed a week earlier. On April 2, OpenAI updated Codex pricing for ChatGPT Business and new ChatGPT Enterprise customers to line up with application programming interface token usage instead of the older per-message system. (help.openai.com) OpenAI says older Plus, Pro, and Enterprise or Education customers should keep using the legacy Codex rate card for now. The company says those customers will be moved to the new rates over the coming weeks, which is why it is telling people to check both the old and new pricing tables. (help.openai.com) There is another change buried in the rollout: OpenAI says it is “rebalancing” Codex usage for Plus users to support more sessions across a week instead of longer sessions in a single day. In plain English, that shifts the $20 plan toward shorter, steadier use and gives the new $100 plan room to sell longer coding runs. (community.openai.com) OpenAI is also pushing teams toward pay-as-you-go Codex spending instead of fixed bundles. Its developer pricing page says Codex is included with ChatGPT plans, while Business workspaces can add flexible usage and even earn up to $500 in credits in a promotion that started April 2. (developers.openai.com) (help.openai.com) So the $100 plan is less a random new subscription than a traffic sign in the middle of a pricing rebuild. OpenAI is trying to catch people who outgrew $20, are not ready for $200, and mainly want more room to use Codex without hitting the wall. (techcrunch.com) (help.openai.com)