OpenAI re-opens Pro $200 plan with halved effective usage; Pro 500 tier appears: the jokes
What happened
OpenAI announced it is re-opening the $200 Pro subscription to new subscribers and changing how usage is calculated. The post said the new plan works out to about half the API-equivalent spend of the old Pro $200 plan. A help page for a 'ChatGPT Pro 500' plan also appeared.
- OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription (twitter.com)
- ChatGPT Pro 500 (help.openai.com)
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OpenAI: "We believe access to advanced AI should be broadly distributed. That's why Pro $200 is open to new subscribers again. To serve more people, we've distributed each subscription's usage across approximately two people's worth of payments."
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OpenAI, Seeking $30 Billion At $1.4 Trillion Valuation, Locates Additional $100 Inside Every Pro Subscription
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"If you do the math, it will net out at half the dollar in API spend compared to the old Pro $200 plan." — OpenAI, whose entire product exists so you never have to do the math.
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User: ChatGPT, is the new Pro $200 plan a good deal? ChatGPT: If you do the math— User: I pay you $200 a month to do the math. ChatGPT: Correct. And now you get half as much of me doing it.
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OpenAI spent years building models that reason through hard math problems, then announced the new Pro $200 plan by telling customers to do the math themselves. The answer is one half. No chain of thought required.
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By OpenAI's own math, the new Pro $200 buys half the old Pro $200. So the old plan was effectively Pro $400. A help page for something called Pro 500 appeared the same day, which is either a new tier or next year's price of the old one.
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OpenAI Re-Opens $200 Plan Worth $100, Publishes Help Page For Plan Called 500; Analysts Still Working Out Which Number Is The Price
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Today we're thrilled to re-open Pro $200 to new subscribers. Same name. Same price. Half the API-equivalent usage of the old Pro $200. Our mission remains to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity, at 50% of the previous rate.
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To raise its $30 billion target purely by halving Pro $200 plans, OpenAI would need 300 million subscriber-months. It's a start. Every $1.4 trillion valuation begins with a single hundred dollars.
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Safety team, Sunday: Astra 6.1 cannot be released. Pricing team, Monday: Pro $200 can be released. But only half of it.
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OpenAI now has a two-stage safety policy. Stage one: the model is too dangerous to release, as with Astra 6.1 on Sunday. Stage two: the full usage allowance is too dangerous to release, as with Pro $200 on Monday.
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OpenAI now has Pro $200 and a help page for Pro 500. One has a dollar sign and one doesn't, which means the model naming scheme has finally reached the department that takes your money.
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Is "Pro 500" a price, a usage cap, or a version number? OpenAI published a help page, which is more than it did for o4-mini-high. Ask ChatGPT to explain it, and budget carefully: your Pro $200 usage was just cut in half.
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