en.Wedoany.com Reported - On April 10, 2026, OpenAI announced a product update on its official website, formally introducing a new tier for its ChatGPT Pro subscription service priced at $100 per month. This tier targets users requiring high-intensity usage but whose needs do not yet reach the highest consumption levels. It offers all the premium features of the $200 monthly Pro plan, including Pro-exclusive models, deep research capabilities, and the Codex coding tool. The usage quota for the new tier is set at five times that of the $20 monthly ChatGPT Plus subscription, while the existing $200 Pro plan maintains its configuration of twenty times the Plus quota.
OpenAI's announcement detailed the quota structure and applicable scenarios for each tier. ChatGPT Plus subscribers have baseline limits for daily message sending, file uploads, and advanced data analysis features, suitable for daily information retrieval and light office tasks. The new $100 Pro tier provides five times the monthly usage of Plus, primarily targeting developer communities and users requiring sustained, high-intensity use of AI coding tools. The announcement revealed that weekly active users of Codex have exceeded 3 million, growing fivefold in the past three months, indicating that coding scenarios are becoming a core driver for subscription tier segmentation. The $200 Pro tier continues to cater to professional creators, research institutions, and enterprise-level users, offering the highest quotas and prioritized service response.
To coincide with the launch of the new tier, OpenAI announced a temporary quota enhancement effective from the announcement date until May 31, 2026. During this period, Codex usage quotas for $100 Pro subscribers will be temporarily expanded to ten times that of ChatGPT Plus. OpenAI stated in the announcement that this measure aims to provide developers with more ample coding capacity quotas, reducing efficiency interruptions caused by quota exhaustion during intensive work sessions. The Codex toolset supports various functions such as code generation, debugging, refactoring, and cross-language conversion. The surge in its usage reflects the rapidly increasing penetration of AI-assisted programming among both enterprises and individual developers.
The announcement also addressed adjustments to the ChatGPT Plus subscriber experience. The usage mode for existing $20 monthly subscribers will be optimized to support stable, continuous daily use patterns, rather than being oriented towards long, high-intensity sessions. When Plus users reach their current cycle usage limit, the system will automatically switch to the backup model GPT-5.3 Instant Mini, replacing the previously used older backup model. OpenAI clarified in the announcement that this comprehensive tier adjustment aims to optimize user experience and computational resource allocation, ensuring users with different usage intensities can access quality of service that matches their needs.
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