OpenAI cancels the ChatGPT Pro 200 cut and doubles Pro 100 and Pro 500 usage

What changed on October 29

OpenAI’s release notes for October 29, 2026 open with the increase: “We’re increasing the Work and Codex usage included in Pro and Business Premium plans. Pro 100 and Pro 500 plans now include twice their previous Work and Codex allowance.” The same note drops the cut planned for the next day: “We’ve also canceled the Pro 200 reduction announced in our September 29 email.”

That cut would have moved existing Pro 200 subscriptions from 20 to 10 times the Plus allowance in Codex and ChatGPT Work on October 30, and GPT-6 Pro in Chat from 200 to 100 messages a week, according to OpenAI’s email to those subscribers. Now it won’t happen. Pro 200 subscriptions started since September 29, which came with the smaller allowance, have been doubled instead. “If you already had the higher Work and Codex allowance, you keep it. If you had the lower allowance, it has doubled to match,” says OpenAI’s help article on Pro tiers.

OpenAI’s Thibault Sottiaux announced it on X: “We are doubling all usage limits for all Pro 100/200/500 tiers and Business Premium, effective today.” His post, as All-AI.de and others quote it, adds: “We heard your kind feedback and won’t be reducing usage limits for Pro 200.”

Plan	Price a month	Work and Codex, before	Work and Codex, from October 29	GPT-6 Pro in Chat
Plus	$20	The Plus allowance	Unchanged	Not included
Pro 100	$100	5 times Plus	10 times Plus	Unchanged
Pro 200, higher allowance	$200	20 times Plus	20 times Plus	200 messages a week
Pro 200, lower allowance	$200	10 times Plus	20 times Plus	Raised to 200 a week
Pro 500	$500	25 times Plus	50 times Plus	Unchanged

OpenAI’s own pages don’t say how many times Plus each plan gets. Its help center only ranks them: “Pro 200 includes more usage than Pro 100. Pro 500 offers the highest included usage of the three plans.” The “before” column comes from OpenAI’s email, which gave Pro 200’s 20 and 10 times and Pro 500’s “25 times the usage of Plus.” Pro 100’s 5 times is what OpenAI launched it with in April, as VentureBeat reported, and what The New Stack still gave it in September. The “from October 29” column is our arithmetic: those figures, doubled where OpenAI says they doubled.

Who gets more, and when

• Pro 100 and Pro 500: twice the Work and Codex allowance, now. “New subscriptions include the updated allowance, and existing subscribers receive it automatically without waiting for renewal.” Their weekly GPT-6 Pro limits in Chat stay where they were.
• Pro 200 on the lower allowance: doubled to the higher one from October 29, and “the lower weekly limit now matches the higher one” for GPT-6 Pro in Chat.
• Pro 200 on the higher allowance: nothing changes, on October 30 or after.
• Business Premium: OpenAI’s release notes include it in the increase without giving a figure, and Sottiaux’s post says it doubles. OpenAI’s Business limits article still says only that Premium seats “provide a higher included allowance for ChatGPT Work and Codex.” OpenAI doesn’t mention Business Standard.
• Plus: “Plus usage is unchanged.” OpenAI doesn’t mention Free or Go.

There’s nothing to do to get it. “If your subscription is active, you don’t need to cancel and resubscribe to get the updated allowance,” and anyone who cancels and comes back gets “the same Work and Codex allowance as other Pro 200 subscribers.”

What a Plus-sized allowance costs now

Divide each price by its multiple. Every Pro plan now costs $10 for each Plus-sized allowance of Work and Codex usage, against $20 on Plus. Until October 29, every plan cost $20 for it except the old Pro 200, at $10. Now each Pro plan matches the old Pro 200’s rate, so a bigger plan buys more usage but not cheaper usage, and moving up from Plus buys both.

Two cautions from OpenAI’s help center. “A larger allowance does not guarantee twice as many completed tasks,” because usage “depends on the model, the amount of context processed, reasoning, tool use, information retrieval, caching, and speed mode.” And Ultrafast, only on Pro 500, uses the included allowance “at 8× the Standard rate,” so Pro 500’s allowance goes an eighth as far at Ultrafast speed.

Some things stay as they were. Pro plans still have no five-hour limit: “Pro 100, Pro 200 and Pro 500 currently have no five-hour usage limit in Work and Codex,” says OpenAI’s usage guide, so only the weekly allowance counts. When you reach the GPT-6 Pro weekly limit on Pro 200, ChatGPT still switches to GPT-5.6 Thinking at Medium, says its models article.

Which plan to pick now

1. On Plus and running out most weeks: Pro 100 now gives 10 times Plus for five times the price, and no five-hour limit. Before October 29, it gave 5 times.
2. On Pro 200 with the higher allowance: keep it. Your plan is now simply Pro 200, and Pro 100 would give half as much for half the price.
3. If you moved down to Pro 100 because of the cut: you now have 10 times Plus, what the new Pro 200 used to give. Go back to Pro 200 only if a week at that size ran out.
4. On Pro 500: 50 times Plus by the same arithmetic, and still the only plan with Ultrafast. If you bought it only for the usage, see whether Pro 200’s 20 times is enough.
5. If you were about to leave for Claude Code: compare again with our Claude Code vs Codex guide. Each lab’s multiples are of its own base plan, so 10 times Plus and Claude’s Max 5x don’t compare directly.

What OpenAI hasn’t said

• Whether the 62,500 credits stay. OpenAI’s email gave them to existing Pro 200 subscribers alongside the cut, “a $2,500 USD value” that “will expire on December 31, 2026.” Its October 29 notes don’t mention them. Check Settings > Usage, or Usage & Billing in the Codex app.
• Business Premium’s numbers. The release notes give no figure, and the Business help article hasn’t changed.
• How long it lasts. The notes give the new allowances no end date and don’t call them temporary.
• What dots will cost. OpenAI’s release notes said on September 29: “For the next month, dots usage won’t count toward eligible Pro, Business, and Enterprise users’ plan allowances. After this period, we’ll share usage terms for each plan.” On October 29, Sottiaux said OpenAI will “continue offering extended limits for dots for now,” and that “usage of your dot will still continue to be separate from your default usage.” There are no published terms yet.

When Codex runs out in the middle of a task

Twice the allowance means fewer weeks that end early, not none. Enjoy runs Codex on your ChatGPT plan, beside Claude Code, Antigravity, Grok Build and local models through OpenCode, and keeps the work moving when a limit hits:

• When Codex runs out, the conversation waits for the reset and carries on by itself, as long as the computer is awake and Enjoy is open. If you’ve signed in another ChatGPT account with usage left, it moves there instead.
• Or switch the conversation to another agent, such as Claude Code on a Claude plan or a free local model, and the new agent catches up on the work so far.
• Its usage meters show what each account has left before you start a big job.

Enjoy is a monthly subscription, with the first seven days free (pricing). It doesn’t add usage to a ChatGPT plan: each agent runs on the plan you already have.

We’ll update this memo if OpenAI publishes figures for Business Premium or terms for dots.