OpenAI reopens its $200 Pro plan but cuts API credits in half as it nudges users toward pay-per-use
OpenAI reopened its $200 Pro plan while halving included API credits and pushing pay-per-use.
OpenAI is again accepting sign-ups for its $200-per-month Pro subscription but is cutting included API credits per dollar in half. Employee Thibault Sottiaux said GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, released this week at half their predecessors' API price, should still let subscribers accomplish more, and the five-hour usage cap is permanently removed. The shift moves OpenAI away from heavily subsidized plans toward pay-per-use pricing, an approach Microsoft already uses for Copilot in some areas.
- The $200 Pro plan reopens with API credits per dollar cut in half.
- The five-hour usage cap is gone; weekly allotments can be spread freely.
- GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna shipped this week at half prior API prices.
- OpenAI is steering users from subsidized subscriptions toward pay-per-use.
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Sep 29, 2026
OpenAI is reopening its $200-per-month Pro subscription to new sign-ups but cutting API credits per dollar in half. Subscribers should still get more done than a month ago, employee Thibault Sottiaux claims, pointing to GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, which shipped this week at half the API price of their predecessors. The 5-hour usage cap is gone for good: subscribers can spread their weekly allotment however they want.
The change signals OpenAI's move away from heavily subsidized subscriptions toward pay-per-use pricing. Microsoft already does this with Copilot in some areas. Over time, API prices should fall far enough "that it makes sense for most to buy usage as needed without there being a significant gap between what you get in a subscription and what you get in the API for a dollar spent," Sottiaux writes. That lets AI labs tie revenue more tightly to the actual value companies pull from AI.
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