OpenAI Pricing and Service Changes
What started as a confused Reddit post on March 23rd about InfiniaxAI's credit system — one of those third-party wrappers built on top of GPT-4o — quickly revealed something more interesting underneath it. The same day, a separate thread emerged asking whether Plus subscribers were suddenly hitting rate limits on the ChatGPT web interface, the kind of question people only ask when something that used to work quietly stops doing so. Then, five days later on March 28th, a more direct frustration surfaced: users noticing that OpenAI appears to be adjusting prices without any formal announcement. No blog post, no email, no changelog. Just a number that's different from the one it used to be.
If confirmed, here is what this means. OpenAI is making pricing and capacity adjustments in the background, possibly iterating faster than its communications infrastructure can keep up with — or possibly making changes it would rather not highlight. For Plus subscribers paying a fixed monthly fee, silent rate limit changes are effectively a service reduction without a corresponding price reduction, which is a breach of expectation even if it's technically within the terms of service. For developers and businesses building on top of the API, unpredictable credit systems and unannounced pricing shifts make cost forecasting genuinely difficult. The second-order effect is trust erosion — not the dramatic kind that makes headlines, but the slow, grinding kind that sends engineers quietly benchmarking alternatives.
Watch for any official OpenAI communication on pricing or usage policy changes in the next two weeks, and pay attention to whether the rate limit complaints cluster around specific account types or usage patterns — that would tell you whether this is a targeted policy shift or a broader infrastructure adjustment.
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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I’m seriously considering upgrading from ChatGPT Plus to Pro (100$ package), but I’m still on the fence and would love to hear from people who
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Yesterday and today I noticed ChatGPT now limits my usage to 6 messages/5 hours. Does anyone know if the limit has changed?</p> </div><!-- SC_ON
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Heads up to anyone here using Claude/Anthropic as an alternative. If you have a card saved on their platform, <strong>remove it now.</strong></p>
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I’m currently testing Codex pretty heavily on Pro 200 and I’m trying to understand two things.</p> <p>First, is there really something like a
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>New Codex limits are a joke. They said they would cut the 2x usage bonus and cut more of the 5hours limits, but the consumption has raised to
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I used to be able to have long discussions going on for months before reaching the limits. In fact, I was surprised when I first reached it. But
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