OpenAI brings back $200 Pro plan, but Astra effectively gets its own tighter usage limits
cedric_chee · x · 2026-09-29
Tracing OpenAI's recent moves: after Astra launched, OpenAI said scaling was better than expected; a week later it stopped selling the $200 Pro plan; now Pro is back. The author reads this as Astra getting its own tighter usage limit (similar to Anthropic's separate limits for Fable), while Sol/Luna's 50% price cut means their effective usage barely changes.
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