OpenAI Rate Limits Frustrate Power Users Who Can't Even Pay to Upgrade

OpenAI's rate limit policies are drawing complaints from power users: one developer hit his weekly cap and was unable to upgrade to a 20x paid plan, while Reddit threads mock the company for throttling heavy users in favor of mass-market agent products.

2026-09-14 ~ 2026-09-15 · 2 related posts

• Dev hits OpenAI weekly limit, blocked from upgrading to 20x plan, switches to open source — haydendevs · 2026-09-14
• Reddit rant: OpenAI throttles its best power users because the math favors normies — Pleasant-Insect-6824 · 2026-09-15