ChatGPT Pro 500

minimaxir

> New subscriptions that aren’t eligible for grandfathering include a lower usage allowance than previously offered with Pro 200 to reflect our increasingly efficient models. actual lol

rafram

I guess they got tired of people saying Codex plans were a better value than Claude Code.

ChrisArchitect

Related: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889306

Robdel12

Yeah no. $200 was the top for me. Which doesn't super matter to me, I pretty much only use luna. I can't tell the difference between luna vs sol/astra other than those larger models do more ambitious things that I don't ask for.

Hawkenfall

Why would I pay $500 now when the $200 features were just rug-pulled? I mean, Pro 1000 is on the horizon at this point, no?

Lalabadie

Am I just out of touch with our times if I think hand-wavey usage limits on a 500$ subscription is crazy?

derfurth

Given that I burn through 2 x $200 subscriptions, I really hope Sol 6.1 is indeed as good as Astra (￣ー￣；

rfgplk

Decent(-ish), but doesn't provide good value for the money, sadly. They still refuse to tell you exactly how much usage you're paying for. My original suggestion a few months ago was to provide a $500/$1000 tier but make it _unlimited_, which this doesn't appear to be.

ferrouswheel

Lowering usage limits, increasing price. This is just the beginning. Migrate to open models ASAP.

xaksnTMu2

For a second I was worried I somehow missed 490 versions.

tonyedgecombe

What a strange idea to name your product after it's price.

x313

Horrid value. Previous $200 tier: 20x pro value New $200 tier: 10x New $500 tier: 25x, plus ultrafast mode but it drains 6x the cost (!!)

glub

This day may go down in history as one of the worst in OpenAI's history. It's so bad it's funny. OpenAI announced they built clones of apps that already exist, codex for normal people, and 2.5x price increase for the product that is already getting decimated by competition. What is happening at OpenAI? I can't imagine OpenAI not backtracking this unless Anthropic does the price hike too.

therepanic

It's funny how, just before that, they tactfully cut the limits on the $200 subscription.

isoprophlex

> If your Pro 200 subscription was active at the eligibility cutoff or during the seven days before it, you’re eligible to keep your previous included usage allowance through Oct 29, 2026 while you have an active Pro 200 subscription. > After that date, your subscription will move to the lower included usage allowance. Your subscription price stays at $200/month. Imagine buying this shit for a year, upfront, and then having to deal with this. Nice.

buckleyourshoe

I wonder how this will go with the new releases like MiMo-v2.6-Pro or future GLM, DeepSeek, and Kimi releases around the corner. Once planned with Fable or Astra, the build process isn't much different with the open weight models from my usage.

yzydserd

Great naming scheme that doesn’t even survive exchange rates, or future price changes.

1970-01-01

At this rate I expect end-to-end work getting done, no babysitting whatsoever. The agents should literally be calling me and talking about their problem if something needs my input.

adamrezich

Very cool how I'm supposed to feel good about paying $200/mo (a VERY expensive subscription!) for months, just to be told that in the near (but not immediate) future this subscription will lose half of its value and then I'll have to pay 2.5x as much to get 1.25x the value I used to get. Fuck that shit!

damsta

People complained about burning their weekly usage in a day on Pro 200, so OpenAI's response to that is an even more expensive plan?