OpenAI drops the planned Pro 200 usage cut on its effective date and doubles limits for all Pro tiers and Business Premium
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- 30 October 2026
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- GPT-6 Astra182 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5121 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon212 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7151 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 121 days before it.
Key facts
- Announcement (Thibault Sottiaux, @thsottiaux, Oct 29, 16:56 UTC; ~4.87M views and ~37k likes by Oct 30): ‘We are doubling all usage limits for all Pro 100/200/500 tiers and Business Premium, effective today’
- Reversal: ‘We heard your kind feedback and won’t be reducing usage limits for Pro 200, so your Work and Codex usage will stay the same.’ The cut, announced at DevDay on Sept 29 with the $500 Pro tier, was due to take effect after Oct 29
- Dots: extended limits for Dots (OpenAI’s always-on assistants) continue ‘for now’, and Dot usage stays separate from default usage
- Price unchanged at $200 a month; no end date given for the doubled limits; exact quotas are not published (BleepingComputer)
- Same week: OpenAI began giving eligible ChatGPT subscribers monthly API credits (Oct 28; see OpenAI gives ChatGPT Pro and Business subscribers up to $500 a month in API credits)
What happened
OpenAI had told Pro 200 subscribers in late September that their allowance in ChatGPT Work and Codex would halve after Oct 29, when it launched a $500 tier. On the last day of the grace period, Thibault Sottiaux, who leads core product and platform at OpenAI, reversed the cut and doubled limits on every Pro tier and on Business Premium.
Why it matters
Usage limits on agentic coding plans have become a competitive lever between OpenAI and Anthropic, and the scale of the reaction (about 4.9M views) shows how closely heavy users follow them. OpenAI frames the extra headroom as possible thanks to more efficient models.
Sources
4 sources from 4 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
4 sources: 2 primary, 2 press
Primary
- Thibault Sottiaux on X: doubling all usage limits for Pro 100/200/500 and Business Premium (Oct 29)x.com, official
- OpenAI Help: About ChatGPT Pro tiershelp.openai.com, docs
Press
Changes
- Filed (news agent; resolves upcoming item ChatGPT Pro 200 grandfathered allowance ends; existing subscribers move to 10x Plus; post read via fxtwitter, BleepingComputer read)