OpenAI Adds New $100/Month ChatGPT Subscription Tier for Heavier Codex Use

Thursday April 9, 2026 4:50 pm PDT by Juli Clover

OpenAI today added a new subscription tier, which the company says is meant to support increasing Codex use. Codex is OpenAI's AI coding agent that's integrated into ChatGPT, and it competes with Anthropic's Claude Code.

The new $100/month Pro tier provides 5x more Codex usage than the $20/month ChatGPT Plus plan. OpenAI says that it is best for longer, high-effort Codex sessions. ChatGPT also has a $200 Pro tier with a 20x higher usage allowance, and the $100/month plan is a new middle-tier option. Both the $100 and $200 plans share the "Pro" name.

Pro subscribers will have access to all Pro features, including the Pro model and unlimited access to Instant and Thinking models.

To celebrate the launch of the new plan, OpenAI is increasing Codex usage for a limited time. Through May 31, customers who subscribe to the $100/month Pro plan will get up to 10x usage of ChatGPT Plus on Codex.

In addition to introducing the new plan, OpenAI is "rebalancing" Codex usage in Plus to support more sessions throughout the week, instead of longer sessions in a single day. OpenAI says the ChatGPT Plus plan is the best offer for steady, day-to-day usage of Codex, while the more expensive $100/month plan is a "more accessible" upgrade path for heavier daily use.

With the $100 plan, OpenAI has pricing tiers similar to Anthropic. Anthropic has a $20/month Pro plan, a Max 5x plan for $100/month, and a Max 20x plan for $200/month.

Tags: ChatGPT, OpenAI

Top Rated Comments

discofuel

11 hours ago at 04:57 pm

Already switched to Claude and not looking back

Score: 17 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Happy_John

11 hours ago at 05:13 pm

Yeah, this is the price creep.

The only way OpenAI can sustain itself and meet its running costs with revenue rather than burning investment is by charging users more. A lot more.

So create a premium tier, then start nerfing lower tiers, then create a higher tier above the premium tier, then simply kill off a couple of lower tiers, then rinse and repeat until either your company is no longer a money pit or users simply don’t pay, and you go bankrupt.

Now we’ll see if actual users will put their money where their mouths are, and end up paying 500-1000 dollars a month to cover the costs of their compute, or not. Because that is what it will cost for OpenAI to be a sustainable company.

And the same applies to Anthropic or any company based on massive, server-centre side LLM models.

Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Happy_John

10 hours ago at 05:28 pm

Once that “big product” comes out that Sammy and Johnny keep hinting at, then it will all be smooth sailing. Right?

Of course. Unless it turns out that it’s redundant, because anyone who wants portable AI already has a smartphones in their pocket.

And of course, this AI device won’t need a premium subscription plan with OpenAI to function and burn silly quantities of tokens 24/7, right?

I somehow think Apple’s failure with their home-grown Apple Intelligence will turn out to be the most profitable failure in Apple’s 50 year history.

The awkward truth is that the compute cost for AI is multiples higher than what AI providers are charging their users. And that’s simply not sustainable.

Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)