After being criticized by users for a month, OpenAI has finally decided to stop tinkering with everyone’s usage limits.
Just now, OpenAI’s head of product, Tibo, suddenly announced that he would significantly increase the usage limits for the ChatGPT Pro series and Business Premium users, with some plans even doubling immediately, effective today.
Even more pleasing to long-time users is that OpenAI has also decided to rescind its previously controversial plan to reduce the Pro 200 usage limit.
However, after the announcement, some users cheered that OpenAI had finally listened to their feedback, while others questioned why Plus subscribers—who pay the same monthly fee—were once again left out of the benefits list?
Meanwhile, Tibo himself accompanied this adjustment with a rather self-deprecating statement: “We’ve graduated from being a company that kept resetting limits to becoming a company that provides tokens.”
OpenAI suddenly announced a doubling of usage limits, but $200 users are somewhat special
The incident occurred on the 25th day of Tibo’s continuous product updates.
Specifically, starting today, OpenAI will increase the usage limits for Pro 100, Pro 200, Pro 500, and Business Premium plans, explicitly stating that it has listened to user feedback and will no longer reduce the Work and Codex usage limits for Pro 200.
Meanwhile, OpenAI will also temporarily extend the additional usage allowance for dots and continue calculating dot usage separately from users’ default allowances. The announcement appears quite straightforward, but a closer look at the official help documentation reveals that the actual benefits received vary across different plans.
Currently, ChatGPT Pro offers three main subscription tiers.
Pro 100, priced at $100 per month, doubles the previous usage limits for Work and Codex.
Pro 200, priced at $200 per month, provides a doubling of the previously lower limits for eligible users, while those who already enjoyed higher limits retain their original allocations; ultimately, all Pro 200 users are standardized to the same level.
Pro 500, priced at $500 per month, likewise doubles the usage limits for Work and Codex and grants access to the Ultrafast modes of GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.
For Business Premium users, Tibo has also announced a doubling of usage limits, though the publicly released Pro help documentation does not specify exact figures for Business Premium.
However, this doubling of the quota does not cover all of ChatGPT’s features.
According to OpenAI’s official announcement, Pro 100 and Pro 500 users have had their quotas doubled for writing code with Codex and executing tasks via Work; however, the weekly message limit when using GPT-6 Pro in the ChatGPT chat interface remains unchanged. As for Pro 200, users who previously had lower quotas have received an increase, while those who already enjoyed higher quotas remain unaffected.
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As for how many tasks users can actually complete, that depends on the model chosen, the context length, the inference settings, and tool invocation. Doubling the quota does not guarantee that the number of completed tasks will also double.
It is worth noting that no manual application is required for this adjustment; existing subscriptions will automatically receive the new quotas, without waiting for the next billing cycle.
For heavy users who regularly rely on Codex to write code or use ChatGPT Work to perform complex tasks, at least under the same subscription price, the available computing resources have become more abundant.
From preparing to cut quotas to announcing that they would remain unchanged, has OpenAI been forced to backtrack after being criticized by users?
Among these adjustments, the most noteworthy is actually Pro 200.
Back on September 29 this year, OpenAI notified some Pro 200 users via email about a plan to adjust their usage limits, intending to reduce the Work and Codex quotas available to them. For long-time users accustomed to their previous limits, the monthly subscription fee remained unchanged while the services they could access were being scaled back—hardly an acceptable situation.
Ultimately, OpenAI decided to rescind its earlier adjustment decision.
According to the latest official help documentation, the Pro 200 quota reduction plan announced in the September 29 email has been officially canceled. Existing users who previously enjoyed higher quotas can continue to retain their original benefits, while users with lower quotas have received a doubling of their limits, aligning them with those of the former group.
However, Tibo’s wording in his tweet left some users quite confused.
Tech blogger Chubby pointed out in the comments that Tibo simultaneously announced a doubling of quotas across all Pro tiers, yet also stated that the Pro 200 quota would remain unchanged. So how exactly should one interpret this?
Based on the official documentation, for existing Pro 200 users who originally enjoyed higher quotas, this adjustment primarily involves canceling the previously planned reductions; meanwhile, users who previously had lower quotas are indeed seeing their limits doubled.
The differences in quotas among users within the same tier have thus been eliminated. Rather than simply announcing a one-time benefit, OpenAI appears to be correcting its earlier controversial subscription policy, aiming to regain the trust of high-priced subscribers.
And Tibo’s remark—“graduating from a company that resets quotas to one that provides tokens”—therefore takes on an especially intriguing meaning.
After all, over the past period, Tibo’s most well-known move was occasionally resetting users’ usage limits for free. Now that OpenAI has chosen to directly increase plan limits, this “graduation statement” seems to suggest that the days of frequent free resets may soon be a thing of the past.
Pro users are celebrating, while Plus users can’t sit still anymore.
Of course, not all paying users will benefit from this adjustment.
According to OpenAI’s official announcement, ChatGPT Plus’s usage limit remains unchanged.
This decision quickly sparked dissatisfaction among some Plus users. One netizen posted a question in Tibo’s comment section: “Tibo, why? Do you not consider Plus users as real users?”
He complained that over the past month, OpenAI has continuously rolled out new features and quota perks, yet neither the additional quota for dots nor this doubling of the Pro plan’s limit has brought much tangible change to Plus users—and even the five-hour usage cap he finds objectionable remains in place.
In fact, it’s easy to understand Plus users’ frustration. Although the $20-per-month subscription price is significantly lower than the Pro plan, for many ordinary users, Plus is the primary plan they’re willing to pay for long-term.
As ChatGPT evolves from a mere chat tool into an intelligent agent capable of writing code, operating software, and invoking various tools, usage limits have become directly tied to how much work users can get done with AI.
Of course, OpenAI has the right to offer differentiated services based on the pricing of its various plans and must manage computing costs through usage limits. The problem is that frequent adjustments to subscription rules and the use of different quota calculation methods for different features have made it increasingly difficult for some paying users to determine exactly how much service they’re getting for their money.
Ultimately, users are willing to pay for more powerful AI and greater computational capacity, but surely no one should have to spend half a day crunching math problems after paying their monthly subscription just to make sense of this confusing bill.