ChatGPT Pro: Amid the controversy, OpenAI abandons plans to scale back the subscription.

OpenAI had planned to halve, starting October 30, the usage allowance included in its Pro 200 subscription, priced at more than €200 per month, without changing the price. The decision had triggered a wave of protests among subscribers. On Thursday, with just a few hours to go before the deadline, the company announced exactly the opposite.Usage limits are doubling, effective immediately.

Twice as much instead of half as much

“We are doubling all usage limits for all Pro 100, 200, and 500 tiers, as well as Business Premium, effective immediately,” wrote Thibault Sottiaux on X, one of the leaders of ChatGPT and Codex. “We have heard your kind feedback and will not be reducing the usage limits for Pro 200.”

Day 25/

We are doubling all usage limits for all Pro 100/200/500 tiers and Business Premium, effective today.

We heard your kind feedback and won’t be reducing usage limits for Pro 200, so your Work and Codex usage will stay the same. We’re also going to continue offering extended limits for dots for now, and usage of your dot will still continue to be separate from your default usage.

And we’ll of course also keep shipping better models and other efficiency improvements that increase your effective usage over time.

— Tibo (@thsottiaux) October 29, 2026

In detail, the doubling applies to the shared allowance between ChatGPT Work, which is dedicated to long-running tasks, and Codex, the company’s coding agent. Pro 100 and Pro 500 subscribers see their allowance double, while Pro 200 accounts on the lowest tier move up to the next tier. Existing subscribers benefit automatically, while new subscribers benefit as soon as they sign up.The three tiers also operate without a five-hour window, which does not mean unlimited usage, however, and resident Dots agents retain generous limits, counted separately. These plans target the service’s heaviest users—those who leave Codex agents running on long-running tasks. OpenAI, however, publishes no precise figures for each tier, and Plus subscribers remain sidelined.

The third episode of a saga that began in September

This rollback extends a series started on September 10, when OpenAI suspended Pro 200 registrations, overwhelmed by demand it could no longer accommodate. Since October 5, Thibault Sottiaux has committed to delivering an improvement every day for Codex and ChatGPT Work, ranging from speed gains to quotas through caching. His Thursday announcement also bears the label “day 25.” OpenAI had also just distributed free API credits to its Pro and Business subscribers.

A string spotted in the code of ChatGPT’s payment page nevertheless points to, for December, a shared usage limit across ChatGPT and Codex as a whole. Nothing has been rolled out or confirmed at this stage. If this merger of counters were to materialize, it could eat into some of the day’s doubling by drawing both conversations and coding sessions from the same pool.

For subscribers, the immediate result is all upside: twice as much usage at the same price, without upgrading.Proof, if one were needed, that even at 200 euros per month, complaining is still free.

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