The new ChatGPT Pro subscription will cost you a lot... but it may be worth it.

On Tuesday morning, Thibault Sottiaux, head of ChatGPT and Codex, warned that the $200 Pro subscription would return with half the usage value, while promising “good news” for the evening. The DevDay keynote provided the answer: a plan called Pro 500, priced at $500 overseas and €510 per month here, and available immediately.A subscriber had responded earlier that morning that “a $500 plan will end up being the old $200 plan”: by that evening, he had almost been proved right.

Twenty-five times the Plus plan’s allowance, and an agent that doesn’t count against your quota

Pro 500 includes the largest usage allowance in the lineup, twenty-five times that of ChatGPT Plus. It also includes Ultrafast mode, which drives generation at up to 8 times the speed and 300 tokens per second in Codex and the Work apps, as well as access to GPT-6 Astra and the brand-new GPT-6.1 Sol.

The plan also includes a Dot, the “always-on” personal agent unveiled at DevDay, with one detail that matters: its conversations do not draw on ChatGPT quotas. OpenAI describes these agents as “working for you around the clock,” making it possible to move forward on assigned tasks while the user is away. The promise left hanging the previous night—additions to the subscription that “will not count toward usage”—takes shape here.

The old $200 plan, the new mid-tier option

The $200 Pro subscription, suspended for three weeks due to insufficient capacity, had reopened that same morning with its new calculation rule. It goes from twenty times the Plus allowance to ten times, and its cap on GPT-6 Astra drops from 200 to 100 messages per week. The usage allowance sold for $200 at the start of the week therefore now requires the $500 plan, which offers a quarter more.

OpenAI, for its part, champions lower prices where it is least noticeable: GPT-6.1 Sol is billed at one-fifth of the standard rates for both input and output, for an AI announced as being close to Astra, first in Codex and Work before ChatGPT. The rest of DevDay followed the same service-oriented trajectory, with an agents API capable of controlling a computer and a “Log in with ChatGPT” that extends Plus and Pro accounts beyond OpenAI’s walls.

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