Dear subscribers, OpenAI's package subscription pricing seems to be a little off the charts.
On September 27, users discovered that OpenAI had performed a "silent surgery" on ChatGPT's pricing page.
Simply put, the $100/month and $200/month Pro schemes are now called"Pro Standard" and "Pro More".In addition, it was clearly written "5x more usage than Plus" and "20x more usage than Plus", which is what we're used to.5x and 20x packages have all been deleted。
It's only a vague description of the dosage in today's Pro Standard and Pro More packages.「More usage than Plus」。
Previously, the two grades of ChatGPT Pro had clear quantitative commitments: $100/month corresponding to five times Plus usage and $200/month corresponding to 20 times.
Interestingly, OpenAI's own documentation still retains the old usage multiple indication. There is a "fight" between pricing pages and documents.
On September 25, OpenAI's open-source openai/codex code repository was merged into a PR(#47971Add Pro Max plan support and update Pro display names. The changes involving 24 files reveal three things:
First, a new promax program type has been added to the code, and the name "Pro (Max) " is displayed externally.
Second, the internal naming synchronization of existing programs: the original prolite was changed to the display name "Pro" ("Pro Standard") on the pricing page, and the original pro was changed to "Pro (More)".。
Third, there is no specific price in the code. However, a previously leaked application showed strings in the code showing that the price of the product is not the same as the price of the product.Pro Max is priced at $500/monthIt has been described as the "Fastest Work and Codex".
This is also a possible reason why pricing pages are erasing the use factors: the old 5x/20x system is insufficient to accommodate the third tier, and OpenAI needs a new set of expressive frameworks to distinguish between the three tiers of Pro.
Pro Max's leaked description is "Fastest Work and Codex", which points in two directions: the fastest rationalization speed and complete Codex programming capability.
There have been unconfirmed reports that Pro Max may run on Cerebras' reasoning hardware to provide significantly higher response speeds than existing programs.
The product logic behind this is clear: GPT-6 Astra's demand for computing power is so great that it forced the $200 program to suspend registration, and OpenAI needs a new "ceiling" program to implement a layered supply of computing power.
However, this also raises a question: When OpenAI simultaneously eliminates the use multiplier promise and introduces a new high-pricing scheme, will the benefits of existing Pro users be "hiddenly downgraded"? The vague expression "More usage than Plus" gives OpenAI great flexibility to adjust.
The response of the community is polarized.
Some users consider this to be a normal product layering. The logical cost objective of an AI model is that the higher the capacity, the more computational the model consumes, and the more reasonable it is for heavy users to offer high-priced solutions. $500/month is not cheap for individual users, but may still be economical for teams and businesses that use ChatGPT as a partial replacement.
Another part of users' discontent is focused on transparency. Removing specific intake commitments, using vague expressions of alternative quantification indicators, is usually not a good signal in the industry.
It's DevDay, will Pro Max release it directly?