Vibe coders who hit their ChatGPT<\/span><\/span> usage limits too quickly on OpenAI’s $20-a-month Plus plan no longer have to choose between waiting for a reset or splurging on a $200-a-month upgrade. The company on Thursday said it would introduce a new Pro plan, at $100 a month, that comes with higher limits in the increasingly popular Codex coding app.<\/p>\n AI coding tools have exploded in popularity<\/span><\/span> in the past several months, with Anthropic’s Claude Code<\/span><\/span> generating viral headlines at the end of 2025 and OpenAI’s Codex seeing a boom in usage so far this year. OpenAI said Codex usage has risen more than 70% month-over-month.<\/p>\n The problem is that having AI plan and write code for an app or tool uses a lot more tokens — the basic unit of AI generation — than just asking it to chat.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong>OpenAI Plans to Combine Its AI Tools in a Desktop ‘Superapp’<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n OpenAI said in its announcement that the purpose of the new, cheaper Pro plan is to create a middle ground for those who want more time to code and create<\/span><\/span>\u00a0without paying 10 times the cost of the Plus plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n The new tier includes Codex usage limits five times higher than the Plus plan and access to all the other features of the existing $200-a-month Pro plan, including the ChatGPT Pro model. It also covers unlimited access to Instant and Thinking models.\u00a0<\/p>\n The $200-a-month Pro plan includes usage limits 20 times higher than those of the Plus plan.<\/p>\n Anthropic offers similar pricing for its Claude AI subscriptions. Claude Max 5x offers five times the capacity of the $20-a-month plan for $100 a month, and Claude Max 20x offers 20 times the capacity for $200 a month.<\/p>\n (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET’s parent company, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, last year alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Vibe coders who hit their ChatGPT<\/span><\/span> usage limits too quickly on OpenAI’s $20-a-month Plus plan no longer have to choose between waiting for a reset or splurging on a $200-a-month upgrade. The company on Thursday said it would introduce a new Pro plan, at $100 a month, that comes with higher limits in the increasingly popular Codex coding app.<\/p>\n AI coding tools have exploded in popularity<\/span><\/span> in the past several months, with Anthropic’s Claude Code<\/span><\/span> generating viral headlines at the end of 2025 and OpenAI’s Codex seeing a boom in usage so far this year. OpenAI said Codex usage has risen more than 70% month-over-month.<\/p>\n The problem is that having AI plan and write code for an app or tool uses a lot more tokens — the basic unit of AI generation — than just asking it to chat.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong>OpenAI Plans to Combine Its AI Tools in a Desktop ‘Superapp’<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n OpenAI said in its announcement that the purpose of the new, cheaper Pro plan is to create a middle ground for those who want more time to code and create<\/span><\/span>\u00a0without paying 10 times the cost of the Plus plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n The new tier includes Codex usage limits five times higher than the Plus plan and access to all the other features of the existing $200-a-month Pro plan, including the ChatGPT Pro model. It also covers unlimited access to Instant and Thinking models.\u00a0<\/p>\n The $200-a-month Pro plan includes usage limits 20 times higher than those of the Plus plan.<\/p>\n Anthropic offers similar pricing for its Claude AI subscriptions. Claude Max 5x offers five times the capacity of the $20-a-month plan for $100 a month, and Claude Max 20x offers 20 times the capacity for $200 a month.<\/p>\n (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET’s parent company, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, last year alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Vibe coders who hit their ChatGPT<\/span><\/span> usage limits too quickly on OpenAI’s $20-a-month Plus plan no longer have to choose between waiting for a reset or splurging on a $200-a-month upgrade. The company on Thursday said it would introduce a new Pro plan, at $100 a month, that comes with higher limits in the increasingly popular Codex coding app.<\/p>\n AI coding tools have exploded in popularity<\/span><\/span> in the past several months, with Anthropic’s Claude Code<\/span><\/span> generating viral headlines at the end of 2025 and OpenAI’s Codex seeing a boom in usage so far this year. OpenAI said Codex usage has risen more than 70% month-over-month.<\/p>\n The problem is that having AI plan and write code for an app or tool uses a lot more tokens — the basic unit of AI generation — than just asking it to chat.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong>OpenAI Plans to Combine Its AI Tools in a Desktop ‘Superapp’<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n OpenAI said in its announcement that the purpose of the new, cheaper Pro plan is to create a middle ground for those who want more time to code and create<\/span><\/span>\u00a0without paying 10 times the cost of the Plus plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n The new tier includes Codex usage limits five times higher than the Plus plan and access to all the other features of the existing $200-a-month Pro plan, including the ChatGPT Pro model. It also covers unlimited access to Instant and Thinking models.\u00a0<\/p>\n The $200-a-month Pro plan includes usage limits 20 times higher than those of the Plus plan.<\/p>\n Anthropic offers similar pricing for its Claude AI subscriptions. Claude Max 5x offers five times the capacity of the $20-a-month plan for $100 a month, and Claude Max 20x offers 20 times the capacity for $200 a month.<\/p>\n (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET’s parent company, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, last year alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)<\/p>\n<\/article>\n [analyse_source url=”http:\/\/cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/openai-chatgpt-pro-tier-100-vibe-coding\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/1759475f58dc119fb387ecf1d9ee82caf02c3f6b\/hub\/2025\/11\/14\/11c2c657-73fc-4853-a5da-c9fff75c1dde\/chatgpt.png?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200″] Vibe coders who hit their ChatGPT usage limits too quickly on OpenAI’s $20-a-month Plus plan no longer have to choose between waiting for a reset or splurging on a $200-a-month upgrade. 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