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OpenAI Doubles ChatGPT Usage Limits Amid Backlash
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In Short: OpenAI has reversed its decision to reduce usage limits for ChatGPT Pro plans, opting instead to double them following user backlash.
OpenAI has reversed its decision to reduce usage limits for ChatGPT Pro plans, opting instead to double them following user backlash.
According to Thibault Sottiaux, a software engineer and product executive at OpenAI, the change took effect immediately, doubling usage limits for all ChatGPT Pro $100, $200, and $500 plans and Business Premium.
Sottiaux announced on X that the new doubled limits would apply to ChatGPT Work and Codex, which share usage limits under eligible subscriptions.
OpenAI confirmed that its always-on AI assistants called Dots will keep separate usage allowances, meaning automated background tasks and text messages will not drain the main Work or Codex quotas.
The expanded caps mainly boost ChatGPT Work and Codex, two popular power tools that share subscription limits under single accounts.
Existing subscribers will receive the updated limits automatically, while new customers will get the increased allowances when they sign up.
OpenAI has also confirmed that ChatGPT Plus usage limits will remain unchanged.
The reversal primarily affects ChatGPT Work and Codex, which share usage limits under eligible subscriptions.
OpenAI’s updated Pro subscription guide confirms the change on October 29, 2026.
The subscription price and the usage allowance are separate parts of the story.
Someone who was considering an upgrade solely to avoid the announced reduction should reassess the subscription they now have before paying more.
Background
OpenAI has reversed its decision to reduce usage limits for ChatGPT Pro plans, doubling them instead following user backlash.
This decision to reverse the usage limit reduction comes just months after Amazon announced it was investing $50 billion in OpenAI and roughly a year after Altman attended the wedding of Amazon founder Bezos and Lauren Sánchez.
What's confirmed
- OpenAI still refuses to share exact numerical limits for each plan, leaving daily allowances as a dynamic system behind the scenes.
What's still developing
- As BleepingComputer reports, subscribers on the $200 monthly tier were originally facing a 50% usage reduction starting October 29, 2026.
- OpenAI learned that lesson instantly after announcing plans to cut ChatGPT Pro allowances by 50% without dropping monthly prices.
- Facing an immediate wave of complaints from angry creators and developers, the company completely reversed course and doubled usage caps across all paid tiers instead.
- The announcement reverses a controversial decision communicated to some Pro 200 customers in September.
- For people who build with Codex or delegate substantial work to ChatGPT, the practical news is welcome: the expected reduction has been canceled, and several subscriptions now provide more capacity.
- This is why the phrase “OpenAI doubled Pro” needs context.
- The cuts had included a 10 per cent reduction in pay for cardinals, along with smaller cuts for office heads and lower-ranking priests and nuns.
- Dallas and Houston each reported 3% reductions in rent.
- The federal department handling President Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation recently declared rent reductions in major cities nationwide to be the result of fewer people living in the country.
- A perfect example of this is a recent dispute between OpenAI and its users over usage limits.
- In the decree on salaries, Leo said the pay-curbing measures “can now be overcome, in the certainty that the institutions of the Holy See and the Vatican City State will continue, through various means, their commitment to ensuring economic sustainability”.
- Leo said that “unprecedented opportunities have arisen to create new spaces” within Vatican City itself, and ordered a new building on a current parking lot to house the material, including ancient manuscripts and full archival collections from past popes, religious congregations and benefactors.