OpenAI Quietly Strips Pro Usage Promises as Leaked $500/Month 'Pro Max' Plan Surfaces
机器之心 · wechat · 2026-09-28
OpenAI quietly reworked ChatGPT's pricing page: the $100 and $200 Pro tiers are now "Pro Standard" and "Pro More," and the explicit "5x/20x more usage than Plus" promises were replaced with a vague "More usage than Plus" — while OpenAI's own docs still retain the old numbers.
Key evidence from a Sept 25 PR merged into openai/codex:
- A new promax plan type was added, displayed as "Pro (Max)"; prolite is renamed "Pro" and pro becomes "Pro (More)"
- Leaked in-app strings show Pro Max at $500/month, described as "Fastest Work and Codex"; unconfirmed reports suggest it may run on Cerebras inference hardware
- Likely driver: GPT-6 Astra's compute demands forced the $200 tier to pause signups, pushing OpenAI toward compute tiering
Community reaction is split: some see sensible tiering (or even room for price cuts), others decry the lost transparency as room for "silent downgrades" of existing Pro users. A DevDay announcement may be imminent.
Related event: OpenAI's $500 ChatGPT Pro Max Tier Surfaces in Testing(4 posts)→
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