ChatGPT adds $100 Pro tier

OpenAI just split ChatGPT’s paid plans into a clearer ladder: $20 a month for lighter use, $100 a month for “real projects,” and the older top-end Pro plan that still shows up in OpenAI’s help center at $200 a month. The new $100 tier is aimed at people who spend long stretches inside Codex, OpenAI’s coding agent. (help.openai.com 1) (help.openai.com 2) Codex is the part of ChatGPT that writes code, edits files, and works through software tasks more like a junior engineer than a chatbot. OpenAI says the new $100 plan gives 5 times more Codex usage than ChatGPT Plus, which costs $20 a month. (help.openai.com) (community.openai.com) For the launch, OpenAI added a temporary bonus through May 31, 2026: subscribers to the new $100 plan can get up to 10 times the Codex usage of ChatGPT Plus. In the same announcement, OpenAI said those users can run “20× higher limits than Plus” during demanding, parallel workflows. (community.openai.com) This is not just a price increase with a new label. OpenAI’s own plan page now describes Plus as something for “select projects throughout the week,” while the $100 Pro tier is described as “built for real projects” with significantly higher allowances for Codex and Deep Research. (help.openai.com) OpenAI has been moving coding toward its own product line for months. When it introduced Codex in 2025, it said the tool was a cloud-based software engineering agent that could work on many tasks in parallel and was available first to ChatGPT Pro, Business, and Enterprise users before rolling out more broadly. (openai.com) The pricing model around Codex has also been changing fast. On April 2, 2026, OpenAI said it had updated Codex pricing for ChatGPT Business and new Enterprise plans to align with application programming interface token usage instead of per-message pricing, while older Plus and Pro subscribers stayed on a legacy rate card for the moment. (help.openai.com) At the same time, OpenAI added pay-as-you-go Codex pricing for Business and Enterprise teams and even introduced Codex-only seats for ChatGPT Business. That tells you the company is separating casual chat use from expensive coding workloads that burn far more compute. (openai.com) (help.openai.com 1) (help.openai.com 2) The new $100 tier fits that pattern: instead of one flat subscription for everyone, OpenAI is charging more for users who keep an agent running on long software jobs. It is the same logic cloud companies use when they charge more for bigger servers, except here the scarce resource is sustained model time inside a coding agent. (community.openai.com) (help.openai.com) There is also a practical reason OpenAI had to make the ladder more explicit. Its developers page now says Plus and Pro users who hit their Codex limit can buy additional credits instead of upgrading, which means subscriptions are no longer the only meter; usage itself is becoming part of the bill. (developers.openai.com) (help.openai.com) So the headline is not just “ChatGPT costs more now.” The real change is that OpenAI is turning coding inside ChatGPT into a premium workload with its own tiers, bonuses, and overage mechanics, and the new $100 plan is the clearest sign yet that heavy software work is becoming a separate business inside the product. (community.openai.com) (developers.openai.com)