OpenAI recently expanded its ChatGPT pricing options by introducing a new $100 subscription plan. However, the company had not been particularly clear about how the usage limits of this new tier differed from the existing $200 plan, leading to user confusion. OpenAI employee Thibault Sottiaux recently attempted to clarify these distinctions.
According to Sottiaux, the $100 plan currently offers at least ten times the usage of a standard Plus subscription, while the $200 plan provides at least twenty times. Crucially, both these figures reflect a temporary 2x usage boost that is set to expire on May 31. Sottiaux also noted that the $200 plan has benefited from this boost since February, a detail OpenAI had not explicitly documented before.
Once this temporary boost concludes at the end of May, the usage for these plans could potentially revert to at least five times and ten times the Plus usage, respectively. However, Sottiaux did not directly confirm these unboosted base values.
Sottiaux explained that the initial confusion arose because OpenAI's pricing page ambiguously listed "5x or 20x usage." This misleading labeling led many users to assume the 2x boost would double both stated numbers, resulting in ten times and forty times the base usage. In reality, the "20x" was already the boosted value for the $200 plan, while "5x" represented the base, unboosted value for the cheaper $100 plan.