How do different models burn the weekly subscription allowance? Users call on OpenAI to publish the weighting
Battlefield4Remake · reddit · 2026-10-02
A Reddit discussion tackles a question every subscriber has but OpenAI doesn't answer: how the weekly allowance is consumed across models.
- Subscriptions beat API spend on raw value, but there's no way to compare burn rates — only the heuristic that API-pricier models probably burn more.
- Example: GPT-6.1 Sol has cheaper cached-input pricing than 6.0 Sol (same input/output prices) — does that mean it burns less of the weekly Plus allowance for similar workloads?
- Unless OpenAI publishes the actual weighting/multipliers, someone needs to benchmark 6.0 vs 6.1 vs Astra on comparable tasks; even the correlation between API pricing and allowance consumption is unverified.
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