Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI reopens $200 Pro plan and cuts API credits
OpenAI reopened its $200-a-month Pro subscription to new sign-ups, halved the API credits attached to each dollar, and removed the five-hour usage cap, according to an employee post.
- OpenAI reopened its $200-a-month Pro subscription to new sign-ups.
- The company cut API credits per dollar in half and removed the five-hour usage cap.
- Thibault Sottiaux said subscribers should still get more done than they had a month earlier.
- Sottiaux said GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna shipped this week at half the API price of their predecessors.
- He wrote that OpenAI wanted API pricing to move towards pay-per-use and to narrow the gap between subscriptions and API spending.
OpenAI reopened its $200-a-month Pro subscription to new sign-ups and reduced the API credits attached to each dollar by half. It also removed the five-hour usage limit, so subscribers could divide their weekly allowance as they wished.
The change was presented as part of a shift towards pay-per-use pricing. In a post, employee Thibault Sottiaux said customers should still be able to accomplish more than they could a month earlier.
Sottiaux pointed to GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, which he said had shipped this week. He said both models were being sold at half the API price of their earlier versions.
He also wrote that OpenAI expected API prices to fall to a level where most customers would buy capacity as needed, with little difference between subscription value and API spending. He said that would link AI labs' revenue more closely to the value customers took from their systems.
Named in this story
People
- Thibault Sottiaux
- an OpenAI employee who described the pricing shift
Companies
- OpenAI
- reopened its Pro subscription and changed its pricing terms
Products and systems
- GPT-6 Sol
- one of the models Sottiaux said shipped this week
- GPT-6 Luna
- one of the models Sottiaux said shipped this week
How the source tells it
Mostly explanatory and matter-of-fact, with a mild promotional gloss in the employee's positive claims about value and pricing.
- vendor boosterism an employee's favourable claims about value and future pricing are used to justify the change