Leaked frontend strings point to a $500/month ChatGPT Pro Max tier
johnseach · x · 2026-09-25
Frontend strings leaked Sept 24 (not an OpenAI announcement) point to a ChatGPT Pro Max tier at $500/month ($600 with VAT), with one new line over current Pro: "Fastest Work and Codex."
- Current stack: Free, Go ($8), Plus $20, Pro $100, Pro $200; $200 signups paused since Sept 10 after GPT-6 Astra demand hit capacity
- The author reads the $500 tier as selling speed, not quota: Work is the multi-hour research loop, Codex is an all-afternoon coding session; Cerebras rumored behind "fastest" (unconfirmed)
- Claude Max and Gemini Ultra sit at $100–$250; a $500 plan would reset the consumer AI ceiling, while Plus frozen at $20 signals mass-market cheap, power users pay for queue priority
- No launch date, no usage multiplier, no exclusive model; frontend strings have been wrong before
Takeaway: consumer AI is a compute market now — frontier models got cheap to try, expensive to run all day.
Related event: OpenAI rumored to prep $500/month ChatGPT Pro Max tier(21 posts)→
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