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OpenAI Pro Pricing Justification

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15 May
I cant put Open Ai in production - Here's why you shouldn't either.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Ok I run a a few SaaS platforms and My GPT Mini 40 (or whatever its called) ran over and the cap was set at a certain limit.</p> <p>Well the Ai

OPINION · WHO · OpenAIOPEN STORY
24 Mar
From $20 to $200? Why is pricing like this?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm reaching my $20 dollar plan too fast, so I decided it was time to upgrade. The only option I have is to go from a $20 to a $200 a month plan.

OPINION · HOW · OpenAIOPEN STORY
8 Apr
Free AI is dead. What does that mean for the vibe coding community?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>When chat gpt was first becoming popular I remember I tried it and could use it for like, days, and no limit was ever hit. I tried again recently

OPINION · WHEN · ChatGPTOPEN STORY
10 Apr
800 Million non paying accounts for free inference, but theyre nickle and diming paid users with lessened Codex rate limits.

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1sh9aar/800_million_non_paying_accounts_for_free/"> <img alt="800 Million non paying accounts for free

OPINION · WHAT · OpenAIOPEN STORY
12 May
Price change? Pro goes 20x, ProLite remains 5x?

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1tatpk6/price_change_pro_goes_20x_prolite_remains_5x/"> <img alt="Price change? Pro goes 20x, ProLite remains

OPINION · WHAT · OpenAIOPEN STORY
29 Mar
Why the pricing is so uneven? like for very small LLM the pricing exceeds monster llm like deepseek V3.2. and more

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s6r8ro/why_the_pricing_is_so_uneven_like_for_very_small/"> <img alt="Why the pricing is so uneven? like for

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
31 Mar
OpenAI Closes Silicon Valley’s Largest-Ever Funding Round

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1s92inp/openai_closes_silicon_valleys_largestever_funding/"> <img alt="OpenAI Closes Silicon Valley’s

OPINION · WHAT · OpenAIOPEN STORY
25 Mar
Any PRO account promotions?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I recently had a chance to try Codex and honestly I liked how it works. I want to try it more and even potentially move to it full-time from

OPINION · HOW · OpenAIOPEN STORY
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