OpenAI's $200 Pro plan returns with roughly half the usage — while Claude Max users barely dent their limits
andrewaltair · reddit · 2026-09-29
OpenAI is relaunching its $200 Pro plan with roughly half the old API-equivalent usage, pitching cheaper models and future efficiency gains as the upside. The author calls it a fiasco: cutting quotas for your heaviest users right as Anthropic hands Claude Max subscribers massive headroom.
Commenters cite real comparisons: one ran five parallel Opus chats for hours using only 5% of a 5x allowance; another finished work on Opus 5.5 after exhausting OpenAI's weekly cap while consuming just 25% of Claude's hourly limit. Cancellation and switching talk fills the thread.
Core argument: OpenAI isn't competing with its month-ago self, it's competing with Anthropic today. Power users don't need theoretical API value or promises about efficiency — they need tokens. "$200 Pro doesn't need more features. It needs more compute."
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