On 29 October 2026, OpenAI announced that usage limits for the $100, $200 and $500 ChatGPT Pro tiers and for Business Premium would double with immediate effect, while cancelling a planned usage cut for existing Pro 200 subscribers. The change was announced on X by Tibo, who leads ChatGPT and Codex, and mainly affects ChatGPT Work and Codex, which share a usage allowance. Subscription prices are unchanged.
What changed
- Usage limits for the Pro 100, Pro 200 and Pro 500 tiers all doubled, and Business Premium doubled too.
- The usage reduction planned for Pro 200 after 29 October will no longer happen, and that tier's allowance doubles as well.
- Extended usage limits for Dots continue, and Dots usage is still counted separately from default usage.
- OpenAI did not publish exact numerical limits for each tier, so users can only judge the change from real use.
Who benefits, and who does not
Pro users who run long jobs in Work or handle large codebases with Codex benefit most directly: for the same monthly fee, they can do twice as much work before hitting a cap, without upgrading to a higher tier. Business Premium enterprise users gain the same extra room. Plus users see no change; this adjustment covers Pro and Business Premium only. For heavy users, doubled limits mean fewer interruptions and less waiting; for occasional users, the difference may barely register.
The signal behind the reversal
The reversal came one day before the cut was due to take effect, and followed user feedback. OpenAI had planned to reduce the included allowance for Pro 200 while keeping the price unchanged, which angered subscribers; in the end it withdrew the cut and doubled limits across all three tiers. For a subscription AI service, the usage allowance is part of the product itself, and a unilateral cut is easily read as a disguised price rise. Whether the doubling lasts will depend on the balance between compute costs and real usage growth; for now, OpenAI has chosen to trade allowance for trust. For users, what matters most is the actual allowance in their own account, because with no published exact figures, the doubling can only be felt through real use.
