OpenAI reopens its $200 Pro plan but cuts API credits in half as it nudges users toward pay-per-use
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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