OpenAI launches $500 Pro 500 tier with Ultrafast, reopens Pro 200 at DevDay
During DevDay, OpenAI introduced a new top-tier subscription, Pro 500: priced at $500/month — 25 times the Plus tier ($20/month) — aimed at the heaviest professional users. The news was corroborated by multiple sources and is confirmed to be live.
Confirmed
- Pro 500 is priced at $500/month, reported and cross-confirmed by @danshipper, @cneuralnetwork, @YashasGunderia and others; @cneuralnetwork explicitly said the plan is live.
- Benefits include: removal of the 5-hour usage cap, ultra-fast speeds, and roughly 25x the usage quota of the Plus tier (@danshipper).
- The tier highlights access to the Ultrafast service tier (@testingcatalog, @cneuralnetwork).
- OpenAI also released a new Decisions API at the same time, described by @testingcatalog and @omarsar0 as extremely fast.
Why it matters
- Pro 500 further widens the gap between premium and standard tiers, showing OpenAI layering pricing for heavy professional users and shifting monetization focus toward high-value customers.
- The combination of the Decisions API and the Ultrafast lane shows OpenAI productizing new inference-speed capabilities — worth watching for how they land in agent-type applications.
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Primary sources
- New ChatGPT Pro tier ships with Astra Ultrafast for speed-focused users — cedric_chee · 2026-09-30
- OpenAI's $500 Pro 500 subscription tier is now live — cneuralnetwork · 2026-09-30
- OpenAI ships Decisions API alongside new top-tier Pro 500 subscription — omarsar0 · 2026-09-30
- OpenAI's new Pro tier costs $500/month, 25x the price of Plus — YashasGunderia · 2026-09-30
- OpenAI reportedly launches Decisions API and $500 Pro plan with Ultrafast access — testingcatalog · 2026-09-30
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pro 500 with 25x usage, Ultrafast mode, no 5-hour limit — testingcatalog · 2026-09-30
- [source] OpenAI introduces Pro 500 plan: no 5-hour cap and 25x Plus usage — danshipper · 2026-09-30
- OpenAI usage limits leak: Plus 1x, Pro 100 5x, Pro 200 10x, Pro 500 25x — cedric_chee · 2026-09-30
- OpenAI reopens Pro 200 subscriptions and pledges never to reinstate the 5-hour cap — OpenAI · 2026-09-30
- [source] OpenAI confirms: Pro 200 usage halved, new $500 tier adds "ultrafast" mode — BrainOfMush · 2026-09-30
- OpenAI Help Center Lists 'ChatGPT Pro 500' Article With No Plan Details — petrusenko_max · 2026-09-30
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