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# OpenAI drops the planned Pro 200 usage cut on its effective date and doubles limits for all Pro tiers and Business Premium

On Oct 29, 2026, the last day before existing ChatGPT Pro 200 subscribers were to drop from 20x to 10x the Plus allowance, OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux announced that the cut is cancelled and that usage limits for all Pro 100, 200 and 500 tiers and Business Premium are doubled, effective immediately. His post had about 4.9M views on X, among the most-read OpenAI product posts of the autumn.

## 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 [2026-10-28-openai-chatgpt-subscribers-monthly-api-credits](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-28-openai-chatgpt-subscribers-monthly-api-credits/index.md))

## 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.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 182 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): 121 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon (training cutoff March 2026): 212 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 151 days after its cutoff

## Sources

1. [Thibault Sottiaux on X: doubling all usage limits for Pro 100/200/500 and Business Premium (Oct 29)](https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2115850175868727621) (x.com, official)
2. [OpenAI Help: About ChatGPT Pro tiers](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-tiers) (help.openai.com, docs)
3. [BleepingComputer: OpenAI doubles ChatGPT Pro usage limits after backlash over planned 50% cut](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-doubles-chatgpt-pro-usage-limits-after-backlash-over-planned-50-percent-cut/) (bleepingcomputer.com, press)
4. [gHacks: OpenAI doubles ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium usage limits after dropping a planned Pro 200 cut (Oct 30)](https://www.ghacks.net/2026/10/30/openai-doubles-chatgpt-pro-and-business-premium-usage-limits-after-dropping-a-planned-pro-200-cut/) (ghacks.net, press)

## Changes

- 2026-10-30 (filed): Created (news agent; resolves upcoming item [ChatGPT Pro 200 grandfathered allowance ends; existing subscribers move to 10x Plus](https://postcutoff.com/upcoming/receipts/#2026-10-29-chatgpt-pro-200-grandfathering-ends); post read via fxtwitter, BleepingComputer read)

## Related

- 2026-10-28: [OpenAI gives ChatGPT Pro and Business subscribers up to $500 a month in API credits](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-28-openai-chatgpt-subscribers-monthly-api-credits/index.md)
- 2026-09-29: [OpenAI adds a $500/month Pro 500 plan and the Ultrafast speed tier, and halves the $200 Pro allowance](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-29-chatgpt-pro-500-ultrafast/index.md)
- People: [Thibault Sottiaux](https://postcutoff.com/person/thibault-sottiaux/)
- Archived: 1 post, listed in https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-29-openai-doubles-pro-limits-drops-pro-200-cut/index.json